About Me

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As a scientist I work to combine foundational plant ecophysiology concepts with remote sensing methods, mathematical and statistical models, and computational methods to address challenging ecology and global change related questions. My PhD work focused on disentangling ecosystem-scale controls on coupled water and carbon fluxes using eddy covariance flux tower measurements and a combination of process-based and data-driven Bayesian models. Currently, I am working on using creative mathematical and physical frameworks and remote sensing soil moisture data to define plant water-use stategies across large scales

I think of myself as a data scientist with extensive experience in climate science and global change ecohydrology. With a background in environmental biology and informatics and computing, I work to combine foundational environmental and plant physiological concepts with computational and data science methods. Following this, I aim to solve problems using quantitative, computational, and collaborative skills to address challenging questions related to plant function into the future.

I currently do research in the FraLab at the California Institute of Technology.