In my current role with the University of Washington’s Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies, I work closely with NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Ocean Climate Stations group to advance knowledge of ocean-atmosphere coupling processes and modes of precipitation variability across time scales. Leveraging skills in research and data analysis, our team aims for a sustainable future for weather & climate monitoring and deeper understanding of the air-sea boundary in the global climate system.

Most of my work is done using global gridded data sets, satellite observations and in situ observing networks. I have also collected in situ data such as upper-air profiles of atmospheric state variables, meteorological surface measurements from land-based and moored platforms, and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) high time resolution tropospheric precipitable water vapor for application to the study of precipitation variability. I have installed GNSS-Met networks and upper-air stations in northwest Mexico, the Southwest US and Central America and enhanced a coastal weather buoy off the New England coast as part of my research activities. I am also part of a team exploring the use of Uncrewed Surface Vehicles for observing heat and moisture exchange at the air-sea interface and upper ocean currents across the tropical Pacific, aimed at capturing high time and space scale variability targeted by the Tropical Pacific Observing System 2020 project.

This research contributes to the current understanding of processes that control global heat and water budgets, with important consequences for operational forecasts and gridded data products.