I’m a staff scientist at Caltech working with Prof. Paul Wennberg and Dr. Junjie Liu since July 2023 after my postdoctoral training since July 2020. I graduated from the University of Utah in Spring 2020 and was a member of the Land-Atmosphere Interactions Research (LAIR) group (M.S. & Ph.D. advisor: Prof. John Lin). I earned my B.S. from Florida State University in 2014. I’ve been a member of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2 & OCO-3) Science Team since 2016. 🛰️

As an atmospheric scientist, I have always been intrigued by complex land-atmosphere interactions and how they are changing in the face of anthropogenic forcing. In our rapidly changing climate, our generation faces two key challenges related to the carbon and water budgets: 1) mitigating anthropogenic and pyrogenic emissions while enhancing carbon sequestration and 2) ensuring food security while coping with water scarcity. The overarching goal of my research is to investigate human impacts on carbon, pollution, water, and energy fluxes using atmospheric observations as key constraints! I enjoy developing atmospheric (chemical) transport models, inverse techniques (top-down perspective), and empirical/machine-learning models (bottom-up perspective) to help interpret varied remotely sensed products of atmospheric compositions and land surface properties.

Check out the following research questions over key climate-sensitive ecosystems:
🌆 Urban carbon cycle (fossil fuel): How much fossil fuel CO2 do cities emit? Do some emit more and why?
🌳 Urban carbon cycle (vegetation): How much CO2 does urban vegetation uptake? How would urban land use change alter CO2 sequestration?
🚗 Bridging carbon and air pollutants: Do heavy industries burn less efficiently? Can emission mitigation be verified and detected from space?
🌾 Agricultural water use: How much irrigation water do crop trees in the Central Valley consume?
🔥 Pyrogenic emissions: How much pyrogenic CO is produced over the western North America? Do estimates from bottom-up models agree with those with constraints of atmospheric observations?

In my spare time, I love hiking and playing racquetball. You can likely find me in the woods 🌲, on X or GitHub, or follow my research on GScholar and CV.