Experience

UC Irvine Department of Earth System Science

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CLIMATE Justice Fellow

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  Engaging in the Cultural, Learning, and Institutional Model to Accelerate Transformations for Environmental (CLIMATE) Justice Fellowship, collaborating with the nonprofit Orange County Environmental Justice (OCEJ).

• Ph.D. Student

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Irvine, California, United States Studying climate variability and change in the Magnusdottir Group.



Frontier Development Lab

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher for the "Climate Adaptation: Fortifying the Grid" Challenge

  • Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

  Mountain View, California, United States Advanced application of ML, data science, and high performance computing to problems of material concern to humankind. Program hosted by the SETI Institute and Trillium Technologies, sponsored by government (DOE, NASA, USGS) and commercial (Google Cloud, IBM, Intel) entities. Upheld a spirit of collaboration for universal benefit, including open source publication. Challenge proposed and supported by the US DOE.



Cornell University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Wind Gust Predictability & Machine Learning Research Assistant

  • May 2021 - Jun 2022

  Ithaca, New York, United States Conducted research with funding from the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Worked alongside professor and postdoc on using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to improve skill of statistical wind gust forecasting. Research started by the Aristotle Cloud Federation project, led by the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC). Culminated in Honors Research Thesis in the Physical Sciences.

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

  Ithaca, New York, United States Improved coursework, pre-processed datasets, and created answer keys for the upper-level undergraduate course EAS 3340 Microclimatology.



University of Michigan Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLASP)

• Cryospheric Modeling Research Intern - Program in Climate and Space Science Observation (PICASSO)

  • May 2020 - Aug 2020

  Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Michigan with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Worked alongside professor and Ph.D. student on improving snow spectral albedo representation in Earth System Models (ESMs) by evaluating the Snow, Ice, and Aerosol Radiation (SNICAR) model against in situ measurements.



Camps Airy & Louise

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Camp Counselor & Nature/Hike Leader and Educator

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2020

  Thurmont, Maryland Supported campers (ages 8-17) through personal and social endeavors such as relationship expansion, respect for diversity, communication, involvement, and self-empowerment. Planned and led exploratory, educational activities in the natural sciences as part of Camp Airy's Nature/Hike Department. Proud General for the August 2019 Green Team.



NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction / Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites

• Climate Research Intern

  • Sep 2017 - May 2018

  College Park, MD Conducted synthesis research on Arctic Amplification. Programming focused on climate data manipulation (with GrADS), creating and analyzing figures pertaining to multidecadal surface temperature change.