Dynamics of a changing planet
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, hosted by Eli Tziperman and Daniel Schrag. My research on climate change ranges from process-level questions (what mechanisms drive ocean heat uptake?) to big-picture questions (does net zero halt warming?). My interest in understanding this broader story is closely intertwined with my outreach work through Climate Up Close.
I earned my PhD in Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, working with David Romps on the atmospheric physics of nuclear winter and the origins of climate change. Before that, I researched geophysical fluid dynamics at Princeton with Stephen Griffies and Nadir Jeevanjee, after a degree in mathematical physics from Brown University.
Recent news
- New preprint with Eli Tziperman: On the pattern, magnitude, and timing of anthropogenic heat uptake in the Southern Ocean. PDF preprint
- New preprint with David Romps and Inez Fung: Fossil fuels dominate future warming but not the past or present. PDF preprint
- Multi-century cooling after net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, with Nadir Jeevanjee and Inez Fung, is out in Nature Climate Change, alongside a News & Views by Andrew MacDougall. PDF journal News & Views press
- Presented a climate seminar at Stanford on rethinking the CO2-centric view of climate change.
- Toured Nebraska with Climate Up Close, giving public talks on climate science in Lincoln and Omaha. events press video
- Presented at EGU in Vienna on cooling following net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. abstract