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I am a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography .

General Research Interests

  • role of clouds in climate
  • global climate change
  • intersection of climate and public policy

    Talks

    • Cluster analysis of cloud regimes and characteristic dynamics of midlatitude synoptic systems in observations and a model, 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 2005 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2005

    • Cluster analysis of midlatitude synoptic cloud regimes in observations and models, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Cloud Parameterization and Modeling Working Group Meeting, Broomfield, CO, October 2003

    • Physical characteristics of sub-grid scale cloudiness, ARM Science Team Meeting, Broomfield, CO, April 2003

    Posters

    • Cluster analysis of cloud regimes and characteristic dynamics of mid-latitude synoptic systems, ARM Science Team Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, March 2004
    • Identifying meteorological regimes using satellite data, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2003
    • Cloud regime analyses for case 4, ARM Cloud Parameterization and Modeling Working Group Meeting, Broomfield, CO, October 2003
    • Towards parameterization of frontal mesoscale circulations and cloudiness in GCMs based on ARM observations, ARM Science Team Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL, April 2002

    Education

  • BS - University of Chicago (Mathematics and Geophysical Sciences) 1996
  • MS - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (Earth Sciences) 2003
  • PhD Candidate - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (Climate Science) To be completed fall 2007

    Other Experience

    • International Climate Change Conference: Bringing Scientists Together (March 2007)
      Took part in a international conference on a wide range of climate-change science to build scientific collaborations..
    • Communicatin Climate Change: Science and Media Networking for the Future (November 2006)
      Workship meant to train in the art of communicating climate science to a general audience.
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