Photo by Mathew E Burciaga

Welcome!

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Land-Surface Modeling the Carnegie Institution for Science (Biosciences & Engineering Division) at Stanford University. My work focuses on the biophysical effects of drought at ecosystem to global scales. Using machine learning and remote sensing data, I’ve studied how groundwater drought affects carbon sequestration, the effectiveness of cutting-edge hyperspectral instruments in estimating plant water stress, and the benefits of sustainable management strategies on agricultural water-use efficiency. With a background in journalism and oral history, I’m also interested in community perceptions of environmental change.

I have lived in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Vanuatu, a Pacific island nation where I collected oral histories about climate change. I’ve worked as a newspaper staff reporter and have written about seal population booms, tenant farmers and illicit mushroom foragers. My work has appeared in the Provincetown Independent, InsideClimate News and the Provincetown Banner.

I graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Geology & Geophysics and received my Ph.D. from UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. I write songs for jazz guitar and regularly perform in the East Bay with my band.