I’m a staff scientist at Caltech working with Prof. Paul Wennberg and Dr. Junjie Liu since July 2023. I graduated from the Univ. 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’ve been a member of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2/3) Science Team Member since 2016. 🛰️

My research focuses on understanding the impact of human activities on the carbon, pollution, water, and energy fluxes over climate-sensitive regions (i.e., urban, agricultural, and wildland ecosystems). I enjoy developing atmospheric transport models and inverse techniques and leveraging varied remotely sensed products of atmospheric compositions and land surface properties. Check out specific research questions under the following category:

🌆 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 detected from space?
🌾 Agricultural water use: How much irrigation water do crop trees in the Central Valley consume?
🔥 Pyrogenic emissions: Master Thesis

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