Contact

Mailing Address:
  • CU Mechanical Engineering Dept
  • 1111 Engineering Drive ECME 114
  • Boulder, CO 80309
phone:
  • 303-492-8716
fax:
  • 303-492-3498
email: office:

Introduction

I joined the faculty in the ME department at CU Boulder in January 2009.

Prior to this I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in New York City. While there, I worked at NASA GISS with Drew Shindell. NASA GISS is a highly esteemed center for climate research. It is also humorously located directly above a famous restaurant.

I earned my PhD in Chemical Engineering at Caltech under the guidance of Prof. J. H. Seinfeld, where I studied aerosols, atmospheric chemistry and inverse modeling.

My initial interest in atmospheric science came from an internship that I did one summer while an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle -- I worked with Drs. Patricia Quinn and Tim Bates and their group at NOAA PMEL. This was a brief and somewhat random hiatus from my aspiring career in theoretical organic chemistry; little did I realize it would be a life changer.

Orignally I'm from northeastern WA state, so despite much time spent in Seattle, LA and NYC, it is not so foreign to be back in a rural, dry, mountain setting.