Experience

Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Project Scientist for MethaneAIR

  • Oct 2022 - Present

• Research Scientist

  • May 2021 - Oct 2022



Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

• Research Associate

  • Sep 2015 - May 2021

  Developed atmospheric measurement and transport model framework to quantify CO2 emissions in the Boston urban region. Framework is capable of detecting changes in emissions of greater than 18% based on measured atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Collaborated with industry and academic partners to interface anthropogenic and biogenic emissions models, atmospheric transport model, and CO2 measurements into model-measurement framework. This work was highlighted in the Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/07/06/emissions/668BjFbnqvAapE1ZERogeP/story.html?event=event25&fbclid=IwAR2zNtlcUrEHdqbxMr3y2JDZb-ItFjs2K-apPn7FThuhD2Pw_Uvakr0JcaU Show less



Wofsy Group, Harvard University

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Feb 2014 - Sep 2015

  Validated accuracy and performed quality assurance/quality control for Harvard’s network of greenhouse gas sensors in and around Boston. Operated Picarro spectrometer in NASA's ATTREX campaign. Validated accuracy and performed quality assurance/quality control for Harvard’s network of greenhouse gas sensors in and around Boston. Operated Picarro spectrometer in NASA's ATTREX campaign.



Anderson Group, Harvard University

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Sep 2012 - Jan 2014

  Validated the accuracy of the new Harvard Water Vapor instrument through rigorous laboratory calibrations and diagnostic studies. Worked to optimize the instrument and deployed it in an international laboratory comparison of water vapor instruments at the AIDA chamber in Karlsruhe, Germany in spring, 2013, and the NASA SEAC4RS campaign in Houston, TX, in summer, 2013. During the SEAC4RS campaign we measured evidence of many deep convective events which brought elevated water vapor deep into the midlatitude stratosphere. Show less



Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• PhD Candidate - Environmental Science and Engineering

  • Sep 2006 - Aug 2012

  Designed and tested the Harvard Herriott Hygrometer, an infrared tunable diode laser spectrometer which was deployed for the first time in the 2011 MACPEX campaign on the NASA WB-57 aircraft. I collaborated with engineers to determine design specifications of the flight instrument, established the accuracy of the measurement at cold temperatures, worked to troubleshoot problems in the laboratory and the field, and analyzed flight data. Validated the accuracy of the Harvard Lyman-alpha Hygrometer through rigorous laboratory calibrations and diagnostic studies, and deployed the instrument. Created a 1-D mixing model to quantify the importance of various transport pathways in the tropical tropopause layer using in situ tracer measurements over Costa Rica. Stratospheric water vapor plays an important role in the Earth's climate system, both through its role in stratospheric ozone destruction and as a greenhouse gas contributing to radiative forcing of the climate. Though water vapor in the stratosphere is present at parts per million levels, it represents a significant source of uncertainty in the prediction of future climate because its response to climate change is uncertain, but changes in its concentration over the last decades likely altered rates of surface warming by ~30%. Highly accurate water vapor measurements are critical to establishing trends in its concentration over time and understanding how the transport of water vapor into the stratosphere will respond to a changing climate. Show less