I provide climate risk assessments to a range of clients, including municipalities, government agencies, and asset managers. Through my work, I want to improve the accuracy of climate risk modeling, enabling better adaptation and resilience decisions to minimize the impacts of climate change.
With Woodwell Climate’s Just Access initiative, I assist under-resourced communities by analyzing climate risks and interpreting the results. When modeling climate risk, my goal is to turn decades of research on climate change, atmospheric science, and natural hazards into actionable insights for communities.
Prior to joining Woodwell Climate, I worked with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and startups to analyze climate risks, find opportunities for proactive adaptation measures to minimize climate impacts, and analyze business opportunities in the climate resilience space.
I began my Ph.D. studying the smallest scale of fluid motion in the atmosphere at the interface between air and land, and finished by researching the Hadley cell, possibly the largest circulation in the atmosphere. I use my cross-scale fluid dynamics background to analyze climate impacts as the local manifestation of global changes.
One of my passions is sailing, and between college and graduate school I spent four years in Maine running yacht clubs. I actually started studying atmospheric science with the goal of understanding wind to help win sailing races. This did not help at all, as it turned out that local knowledge of wind patterns was more predictive than atmospheric science theory or modeling.
