I am an ecosystem and remote sensing scientist, focused on evaluating interactions between plants, climate, people, and the environment across spatial scales. Through my research, I aim to address how natural and urban landscapes are changing in response to climate and human activities, thus far fitting within a few interlocking themes: drought, urban ecology, seasonal changes and phenology, the carbon cycle, biodiversity, and land cover change.

I started my current role as a remote sensing data engineer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in July 2026. I am part of the eBird Status & Trends team, where we produce maps of bird occurrrence, abundance, and trends through time based on eBird observations and spatial environmental datasets.

I received my PhD in Geography from UC Santa Barbara working with Joe McFadden, Dar Roberts, and Naomi Tague, evaluating how urban trees in southern California responded to severe droughts using remote sensing imagery (e.g., imaging spectrometers), and I was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM) working with Trevor Keenan, studying interactions between drought and plant productivity using eddy covariance (flux towers), terrestrial biosphere model outputs, and remote sensing products. In January 2024, I was a visitor at ETH Zurich to collaborate with Sebastian Wolf funded by a FLUXNET Secondment travel scholarship. Mostly recently, I was a postdoc at Cornell University in the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS) working with Dan Katz and the multidisciplinary 'Cool Trees' team, using high resolution satellite imagery to classify trees and track seasonal changes (tree phenology) in New York City to mitigate heat and public health impacts.