I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, & Ecosystem Studies working with Prof. David Battisti (UW) and Dr. Wei Cheng (NOAA PMEL) to investigate how climate model resolution impacts key physical processes in the climate system, such as long-term trends in sea-surface temperatures. My research is aimed at explaining the discrepancy between observed and modeled Southern Ocean cooling over past few decades. I am also researching the physics of extreme events, such as heatwaves over the land and ocean surfaces.

I received my Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington. My research explores the physics and dynamics of Earth’s climate and its response to climate change, with a focus on interactions among the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and land across timescales from seasons to millennia. To investigate these processes, I use comprehensive Earth system models, targeted experiments with climate models of varying complexity, and mathematical conceptual models that provide simplified representations of underlying physical processes.