Research
Research Projects
🌦️ Operational Weather Forecasting and Earth System Modeling
Impact: Contributing to NOAA's operational forecasting framework used for numerical weather prediction
Developing and testing the NOAA Unified Forecast System (UFS), a next-generation framework for operational short-term weather forecasting. Leading research on lake-atmosphere coupling methods that improve regional weather prediction accuracy.
Technical Focus: Atmospheric Modeling Coupled Systems Fortran/Python HPC
🪐 Planetary Atmospheres & Space Physics
Scientific Collaborator | NASA Juno Mission to Jupiter Steering Committee Member | NASA Venus Exploration Analysis Group NASA JPL Graduate Fellowship | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Research Achievements:
- First solar system gas giant constaint on alkali metal abundance, depleted relative to other heavy element abundnaces derived from Galileo Probe
- Sub-millimeter wave remote sensing applications to Martian atmosphere
- High-energy (MeV) electron precipitation and its time dependence inferred from Juno Microwave Radiometer
Technical Focus: Atmospheric Chemistry Microwave Remote Sensing C++/Python Radio Science