Postdoctoral Research Associate
Plant-Soil Interactions Group
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
I specialize in the patterns, mechanistic relationships, and scale dependencies that characterize interactions between the atmosphere and the land surface, particularly within the context of ongoing global climate change. I recently joined the Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher working on the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments Arctic (NGEE Arctic) project. In my current role, I leverage observational data to improve land surface model parameterization and representation of the above-belowground interactions that drive carbon cycling in Arctic ecosystems. I also have extensive experience working in temperate forests, utilizing tools and approaches including eddy covariance flux towers, airborne LiDAR, statistical and process-based modeling, data assimilation, and machine learning to explore the impacts of climate and management on carbon and water dynamics, and reduce predictive uncertainty and computational demands of process-based models.
I obtained my master’s and PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working in Dr. Ankur Desai's Ecometeorology Lab. Previous research projects that I’ve been involved with include PEcAn (Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer), MANDIFORE (Management and Disturbance in Forest Ecosystems), and CHEESEHEAD19 (Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-density Extensive Array of Detectors).
In addition to research, I serve as an Early Career Fellow on the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences editorial board and am involved with the FLUXNET Early Career Scientist Network.
I obtained my master’s and PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working in Dr. Ankur Desai's Ecometeorology Lab. Previous research projects that I’ve been involved with include PEcAn (Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer), MANDIFORE (Management and Disturbance in Forest Ecosystems), and CHEESEHEAD19 (Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-density Extensive Array of Detectors).
In addition to research, I serve as an Early Career Fellow on the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences editorial board and am involved with the FLUXNET Early Career Scientist Network.
