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Recieving this year’s Wagner Memorial Award

September 23, 2024
I’m honored to be this year’s recipient of the Peter B. Wagner Memorial Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences. I attended an award ceremony at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, NV celebrating my winning paper, Stickiness: A New Variable to Characterize the Temperature and Humidity Contributions toward Humid Heat and presented the work during a lunch seminar. Read more in this feature from DRI!

Starting my new postdoc position

August 19, 2024
Today I started my new position as a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellow at NASA GISS! Very excited to extend my dissertation research to think more explicitly about how land surface type constrains the relationship between surface moisture and different types of heat extremes.

I passed my defense!

July 15, 2024
It’s official! I successfully defended my dissertation titled, “Characterizing the Local, Regional, and Global Drivers of Extreme Humid Heat” in front of an audience of colleagues, friends, and family. What an amazing way to cap my experience at Lamont!

Research visit to Brazil

May 6, 2024
This week I traveled to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to meet with stakeholders and collaborators on my current research project investigating the drivers of the November 2023 heatwave in Rio de Janeiro, giving presentations at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the Universidade de São Paulo. I also met with city officials to discuss ongoing green infrastructure projects to reduce urban heat islands and the development of extreme heat warning systems. Read more about my visit to the Centro de Operações Preifetura do Rio de Janeiro (COR, the Rio Operations Center) in this feature on O Globo!