About

I’m currently a second-year PhD candidate at Stanford University in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)! Additionally, I’m a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. I’m co-advised by Profs. Chris Field and Rob Jackson, and I’m also a member of Prof. Nicole Ardoin’s Social Ecology Lab.

My Research

As we anticipate rapid urbanization globally under increasing climate instability, my dissertation aims to better understand and mitigate the social and ecological challenges observed in cities.

Urban sustainability challenges are incredibly complex, broad, and interdisciplinary; I aim to showcase the diversity of urban ecosystems within my proposed chapters.

I approach these topics by integrating remote sensing, quantitative surveys, and innovative environmental engineering techniques at different scales and in different cities.

You can find one of my current projects, in collaboration with the Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, here!

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Selected Research Experience

Previously, I worked as a research technician at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Specifically, I worked in the Technology in Ecology Lab, designing technologically innovative climate change experiments and developing novel low-cost sensors to monitor diverse environmental phenomena.

You can find the Technology in Ecology projects that I worked on here!