curriculum vitae


Research Interests

  • cloud physics
  • aerosol-cloud-climate interactions
  • climate intervention (MCB, SAI)
  • AI/ML application in atmospheric & climate science

Professional Experience

  • Research Scientist II, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory & CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, May 2023–present
  • Research Scientist I, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory & CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Sept 2021–Apr 2023
  • NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (host: Graham Feingold), Sept 2020–Aug 2021

Education

  • Ph.D., Meteorology & Physical Oceanography, University of Miami, 2020
    Dissertation: The interactions between light-absorbing smoke and marine boundary layer clouds over the remote southeast Atlantic
    Advisor: Paquita Zuidema
  • B.S., Meteorology (Minor: Mathematics), Florida State University, 2014
    Magna cum laude

Honors & Awards

  • NOAA Boulder Outreach Gold Star Award, 2025
  • Reflective Fellowship, Reflective Inc., 2025
  • National Research Council Research Associateship Fellowship, 2020
  • NASA Group Achievement Awards (ACTIVATE Team, 2023; ORACLES Team, 2019)
  • Finalist, University of Miami Best Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020
  • University of Miami Graduate Fellowship (highest graduate school award), 2014

Grants

  • P.I., A Framework for Assessing SRM Detectability for Informed Decision-Making (Reflective, 2025–2026, $162,768)
  • Co-I, Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Centered on MAGIC (DOE ASR, 2023–2026, $670,445)
  • Co-PI, Exploring ACI in Geophysical Variable Spaces using NASA ACTIVATE (2023–2024, $350,000)
  • Co-I, Evaluating Biases in ACI Metrics with ARM Data & Models (DOE ASR, 2020–2023, $510,472)
  • P.I., NRC Fellowship Award (2020–2021, $62,000)

Teaching, Mentoring & Outreach

Teaching

  • Guest Lecturer: Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions, TU Delft (2024)
  • Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Weather and Climate, University of Miami (2015)
  • Math Tutor: AP Calculus & undergraduate statistics, Miami (2015–2020)

Mentoring

  • Tyler Tatro, Ph.D. student, University of Miami (2022–present)
  • Alexander J. Thompson, Research Scientist, NOAA/PSL (2024–2025)
  • Danyan Leng, Ph.D. student, University of Colorado Boulder (2025–present)
  • Daisy Kerr, NOAA Hollings Scholar, Physics undergrad at UC Berkeley (incoming 2026)

Outreach

  • CIRES Science Pathways Program speaker (2025–)
  • Scientist Panelist, Boulder High School Environmental Studies (2025)
  • Panelist, CIRES Graduate Student Workshop (2025)
  • Invited Scientist, Boulder Valley Rotary Club (2025)
  • Evaluator: RECCS Symposium (2024), GLOBE International Virtual Symposium (2022), CLEAN Network (2022), AGU OSPA (2020)
  • Science vetting: children’s book Up, Up High

Professional Activities, Service, & Leadership Roles

Chair & Discussion Lead

  • Chair, AI4ACI, 18th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions, AMS Annual Meeting (2026)
  • Discussion Lead, Gordon Research Seminar on Radiation and Climate (2025)
  • Session Co-Lead, Univ. of Washington MCB Workshop (2025)
  • Co-Convener, AGU Fall Meeting (2024)
  • Co-Chair, AMS 16th Conf. on Cloud Physics (2022)

Committees

  • CIRES Members’ Council (2025–present)
  • CIRES Mentoring Program (Chair, 2024–present)
  • NOAA OAR Subject Matter Expert in Satellite Data (2022–present)
  • Univ. of Miami RSMAS Student Seminar Committee (2016)

Grant Reviews

  • DOE Atmospheric System Research (ASR)
  • University of Colorado AB Nexus Program
  • NOAA Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship

Peer Reviews

  • Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Atmospheric Science Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Climate
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Remote Sensing
  • Science Advances

Trainings

  • Dialogic Skills Workshop Certificate, Univ. of Colorado Boulder (2025)
  • Micro2Macro Workshop (US CLIVAR, rapporteur, 2024)
  • DOE–NOAA MCB Workshop (rapporteur, 2022)
  • EarthCare Workshop (2022); Aerosol–Clouds–Convection–Precipitation Workshop (2020)
  • NCAR Radiation Workshop (2016); DOE ARM Summer School (2015)

Field Campaigns

  • ORACLES–2016, Swakopmund, Namibia
  • ORACLES–2017, São Tomé and Príncipe

Miscellaneous

  • Volunteer, CIRES Education & Outreach
  • Intramural Basketball Official, Florida State University (2014)

full list of publications

(also in CV PDF and the Publications tab)

Oral Presentations

2025

  • May — AGU AS Early-Career Seminar (Online), Global climate and air quality implications of regional emission shift. (invited)
  • April
    • Boulder Valley Rotary Club Weekly Meeting (Boulder, CO), How to measure the shade of clouds that are no longer there. (invited)
    • Climate Dynamics & Impacts, Vecchi/Soden Joint Group Meeting (Princeton University & University of Miami, Online), Large radiative forcing from the 2020 shipping fuel regulation is hard to detect: Implications for Marine Cloud Brightening. (invited)
    • University of Washington Inaugural MCB Program Workshop (Leavenworth, WA), Session co-lead and presenter, Identifying conditions amenable to cloud brightening/MCB. (invited)
    • NOAA Science Seminar Series (Online), AI Applications in Earth System and Climate Science: Aerosols and Air Quality. (invited)

2024

  • December — AGU Fall Meeting (Washington, D.C.), Large radiative forcing from the 2020 shipping fuel regulation is hard to detect.
  • November — NOAA Advancing Innovative Research Seminar Series (Online), Large radiative forcing from the 2020 shipping fuel regulation is hard to detect. (invited)
  • October — Micro2Macro Workshop by US CLIVAR (Laramie, WY), Assessing the non-linear cloud susceptibility to Nd using Machine Learning: differences between GCMs and observation.
  • June — TU Delft (Delft, Netherlands), On the viability of Marine Cloud Brightening: Albedo susceptibility, cloud adjustment, and detectability. (invited)
  • May — ACPC Workshop 2024 (London UK & online), Natural variability obscures the detectability of IMO2020’s substantial perturbation to cloud radiative effect.

2023

  • November
    • ACTIVATE Science Team Meeting 2023 (Tucson, AZ), Exploring emergent properties of complex aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions over the WN Atlantic during ACTIVATE.
    • NOAA Earth Radiation Budget Project Meeting (Boulder, CO), NOAA Marine Cloud Brightening Satellite Work.
  • October — Brookhaven National Laboratory (Long Island, NY), Aerosol-cloud interactions in marine warm clouds and implications for Marine Cloud Brightening. (invited)
  • May — ACPC Workshop 2023 (Houston & online, TX), Time-dependent cloud adjustments to aerosol in non-precipitating stratocumulus: diurnal cycle and MCB implications.

2022

  • December — AGU Fall Meeting (Chicago, IL), On the Conditionality of Marine Low Cloud Albedo Susceptibility: from Meteorological Conditions to Spatiotemporal Scales. (invited)
  • August — AMS 16th Conference on Cloud Physics (Madison, WI), Distinct regional fingerprints of marine low cloud albedo susceptibility.
  • May — ACPC Workshop 2022 (Online), Distinct regional meteorological influences on low cloud albedo susceptibility over global marine stratocumulus regions.
  • January — AMS Annual Meeting (New Orleans & online, LA):
    • Albedo susceptibility of marine stratocumulus: The role of covarying meteorological conditions & its geographical distribution.
    • Amplified seasonal cycle in southeastern Atlantic low cloud fraction when biomass-burning smoke is present.

2021

  • December — AGU Fall Meeting (Online),
    Albedo susceptibility of Northeastern Pacific stratocumulus: The role of covarying meteorological conditions.
  • May — ACPC Workshop 2021 (Online),
    Meteorological constraints on low-cloud radiative forcing sensitivity to cloud droplet number concentration perturbations over the northeast Pacific stratocumulus region.

2020

  • June — DOE ARM/ASR PI Meeting (Online),
    Amplified seasonal cycle of low clouds over the remote southeast Atlantic when biomass-burning aerosol is present.
  • May — CLARIFY / ORACLES / LASIC / AEROCOLA-Sa Joint Science Team Meeting (Online),
    Smoke appears to amplify the low-cloud seasonal cycle over the remote southeast Atlantic.

2019

  • May — ORACLES Science Team Meeting (Miami, FL),
    Understanding the low cloud reduction and its diurnal cycle within the smoky boundary layer in the remote southeast Atlantic.
  • April — EGU General Assembly (Vienna, Austria),
    Understanding the low cloud reduction and its diurnal cycle within the smoky boundary layer in the remote southeast Atlantic.
  • March — CLARIFY / ORACLES / LASIC / AEROCOLA-Sa Joint Workshop (Paris, France),
    Low cloud reduction within the smoky boundary layer and its diurnal cycle.
  • January — AMS Annual Meeting (Phoenix, AZ),
    Understanding semi-direct effect within the smoky marine boundary layer over the remote southeast Atlantic.

2018

  • July — AMS 15th Conference on Cloud Physics (Vancouver, BC, Canada),
    Adjustments of the cloudy marine boundary layer to light-absorbing aerosols above the remote southeast Atlantic.

Poster Presentations

2025

  • July — Radiation and Climate Gordon Research Conference and Seminar (Lewiston, ME),
    Large radiative forcing from the 2020 shipping fuel regulation is hard to detect.
  • May — CIRES Rendezvous (Boulder, CO),
    Large radiative forcing from the 2020 shipping fuel regulation is hard to detect.

2024

  • December — AGU Fall Meeting (Washington, DC),
    Learning from the disagreement between GCMs and observations on marine low-cloud susceptibility to aerosol.

2023

  • December — AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA),
    Assessing detectability of Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) over the Northeastern Pacific using a data-driven approach.
  • November — ACTIVATE Science Team Meeting (Tucson, AZ),
    Exploring emergent properties of complex aerosol–cloud–meteorology interactions over the western North Atlantic during ACTIVATE.
  • November — NOAA Earth Radiation Budget Project Meeting (Boulder, CO),
    NOAA Marine Cloud Brightening satellite and LES work.
  • January — AMS Annual Meeting (Denver, CO),
    The role of meteorology and aerosol in controlling marine low cloud fraction and brightness: A data-driven approach.

2022

  • May — CIRES Rendezvous (Boulder, CO),
    Albedo susceptibility of marine low clouds: Where/when to find susceptible clouds and the role of covarying meteorology.

2021

  • September — CFMIP 2021 Conference (Online),
    Amplified seasonal cycle in southeastern Atlantic low cloud fraction when biomass-burning smoke is present.

2020

  • December — AGU Fall Meeting (Online),
    Amplified seasonal cycle in low-cloud fraction over the remote southeast Atlantic when shortwave-absorbing aerosols are present.

2017

  • December — AGU Fall Meeting (New Orleans, LA),
    Boundary layer adjustments to the presence of absorbing aerosols inferred from the LASIC field campaign.
  • July — Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar (Lewiston, ME),
    Boundary layer adjustments to the presence of absorbing aerosols inferred from the LASIC field campaign.
  • January — AMS Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA),
    Tropical humidity vertical structure inferred from a Microwave Radiometer during DYNAMO.

2016

  • April — EGU General Assembly (Vienna, Austria),
    Retrievals on tropical small-scale humidity variability from a multi-channel microwave radiometer.