I’m a physical oceanographer and postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working under Jinbo Wang (now at Texas A&M, formerly at JPL) and Ben Hamlington. I received my doctorate in oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2016-2023), University of California, San Diego. I was supported for part of my studies by NASA through the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant.

At SIO, I was fortunate enough to be advised by Sarah Gille, Bruce Cornuelle, and Matt Mazloff. I could not imagine a better trio of scientists to guide me through my studies.

Research Interests

My research broadly focuses on the remote sensing of physical oceanographic phenomena. In my postdoc at JPL, I have been working towards validating SWOT data against other observations, with one project focusing on steric height from in situ moorings, and another comparing currents derived from SWOT with surface currents from the coastal HF radar network. In grad school I focused on questions about diurnal-and-faster coastal processes, such as “how predictable are tidal currents?” and “how coherent are diurnal currents and winds?”. Broadly, I’m interested in the complicated dynamics that exist near coasts and how much of that variability we can observe.

Skills

In addition to standard oceanographic skills (knowledge of ocean circulation and processes, analysis of remote and in situ data, ship-going experience), I have acquired technical skills applicable beyond oceanography research, including scientific programming in MATLAB, Python, and Mathematica; software tools like LaTeX, bash scripting, git, and the Microsoft 365 suite; and all the mainstream operating systems macOS, Windows, and GNU/Linux (PC and server).

Personal Information

I had the fortune to grow up primarily on the Oregon Coast where I got to witness coastal ocean phenomena over many years, which gave me an early appreciation for oceanography. When not thinking about the ocean, I used to play my harpsichord (badly) in my free time, but forces beyond my control have put that hobby on hold.

Website Information

I am building this personal website from the template provided under the MIT license by the Academic Pages repository, which has a guide as well as a wiki.