I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, advised by Gerard Roe and Dale Durran. I graduated from Harvard in 2005 with a degree in physics, and then spent the next four years working at the Air Force Research Lab near Boston. Gerard convinced me to come to grad school by asking which of my career options would be least likely to precipitate a mid-life crisis.  So far, no regrets.

 I'm currently studying variability in the amount and distribution of mountain precipitation, in order to better understand both the current climate and the impacts of climate change in mountainous regions. I'm particularly interested in what controls the magnitude of the rain-shadow effect, given the scarcity and importance of water on the lee side of many mountain ranges.