Teaching

Guest lecturer

University of Washington - Department of Atmospheric Sciences
ATMS 442: Atmospheric dynamics
ATMS 321: Climate variability and change
(Guest facilitator) ATMS 552: Objective analysis

Teaching Assistant

University of Washington - Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences 111: Global warming (with Professor Dargan Frierson, Winter 2011)
Atmospheric Sciences 101:Weather (with Professor Robert Houze, Fall 2007)
Led 3-4 discussion sections per week; designed and evaluated homeworks, quizzes, and tests; held office hours; administered clicker questions

Math tutor

University of Miami Department of Mathematics, 2003-2006

Student Assistant aboard Explorer of the Seas

Assisted with meteorological instrumentation class aboard Royal Carribean Explorer of the Seas (with Professor Bruce Albrecht, Spring break 2005)

Field Experience

CTD Watch Stander

CLIVAR P6 Leg 2 (Oceanography cruise)
4 January - 10 February 2010
R/V Melville
(My contribution to the expedition blog)

Presentations and Posters

AGU Fall Meeting 2012

Talk (with Dennis Hartmann): Precipitation and the atmospheric radiative response to CO₂ (unofficial title)

Graduate Climate Conference 2012

October 25-26
Poster: Global mean precipitation today and tomorrow: it is controlled by atmospheric radiative cooling
Introductory session talk: Climate dynamics

Oregon State University Seminar

April 12, 2012: Global-mean precipitation, aerosol forcing and climate feedbacks in AR4 simulations

AGU Fall Meeting 2011

Poster (with Dennis Hartmann): A1b black carbon, reflecting aerosol, and precipitation (unofficial title)

UW Program on Climate Change Graduate Student Seminar

5 October 2011: Absorbing aerosol forcing and the hydrologic cycle in AR4 models

UW Program on Climate Change Summer Institute 2011

The global hydrologic cycle and the atmospheric energy budget

Gordon Research Conference and Seminar on Radiation and Climate 2011

Absorbing aerosols and the hydrologic cycle in AR4

UW Weather Discussion

18 May 2010, 7 Dec 2010

UW Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Seminar

2 November 2009: Time-Averaged Data Assimilation for Midlatitude Climates: Towards Paleoclimate Applications

Graduate climate conference

17 April 2009: (talk) Reconstructing circulation with data assimilation and ice core accumulation

StuPOR 2007

Storm chasing

American Meteorological Society Student Conference 2005

Poster: Ensemble forecast bias correction

Conference Planning

Graduate climate conference

2012: Abstract committee, Climate dynamics session chair
2009: Executive committee
2007: Social committee chair

American Meteorological Society Student conference

2008 Planning committee, Undergraduate Session chair
2011 Seattle liaison

Community-oriented activities

Coodinator of student forecast team (from UW AMS Student Chapter) for OAR Northwest

A team of four rowers, OAR Northwest, propelled themselves, unsupported, around Vancouver Island (April-May 2012) and is working their way across the tropical Atlantic, from Senegal to Miami (starting January 2013). Their mission is to bring knowledge of science and the environment to the public, especially students, by inspiring them with adventurous feats. I lead a team of students who provides weather updates for the boat and for the weather component of their education and outreach. (See my page of weather links for the Africa to the Americas expedition and the Salish Sea Expedition).

UW Atmos Outreach contributor

I've developed a severe weather presentation, visited schools and fairs, and given presentations to visiting students.

Skywarn Weather Spotter

Since 2011