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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

• Researching the impacts of temperature and precipitation on commercial flight delays across airports in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana• Utilizing downscaled climate datasets to determine if weather related flight delays can be projected, using various climate emission scenarios

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

• Collaborate with the Communicating Uncertainty CoP to support the SC CASC in distilling climate information to stakeholders and agencies across four states—New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana—to support on-the-ground decision making • Lead Author on a comprehensive literature review that brings in an accumulated understanding of past and current research and identified research gaps in communicating the uncertainty in the projections of the global climate models • Evaluate and analyze qualitative stakeholder responses from the SC CASC Understanding Uncertainty Partners Survey to understand how their respective agencies interpret uncertainty in global climate models, how agency-level perspectives differ from a scientific level, and subsequently how to improve the communication of uncertainty in the climate models

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

• Lead Author on peer-reviewed case studies that highlight collaborative conservation, decision making, and policy implementation efforts across the SC CASC consortium • Conducted and coordinated interviews with Federal land managers affiliated with the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, academic researchers affiliated with North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Georgia, and University of Arizona to synthesize field results from Federal and Tribal projects • Collaborated with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to lead the development of case studies that are aligned with agency and consortium priorities that are applicable to a broad audience of general users, natural resource managers, academic researchers, and Tribal Nations across the SC CASC and Southwest Fire and Climate Adaptation Partnership consortiums • Case studies synthesize and communicate field results and publicly available reports that highlight the importance of Federal agency and Tribal Nation relationships, ecological justice, key policies that lay the framework for successful application of forest and fire management projects, and lessons learned for future land managers wanting to facilitate similar projects within their geographic jurisdictional boundaries• Led the development and publication of four peer-reviewed case studies across four states—Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Alabama

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

• Assessing the urban environment performance of the 40-year, 4-km CONUS404 dataset, one of the highest resolution and comprehensive continental-scale, convection permitting numerical weather prediction simulations • Utilize hourly, in-situ observations, derived from a gap-filled urban weather database, to evaluate CONUS404’s ability to reproduce station-level observed temperature, dewpoint, and wind speed on different spatial and temporal scales across the CONUS• Model evaluation is supporting the NCAR CONUS404 model research and development team’s understanding of the simulation’s performance against station-level hourly, in-situ observations—one of the first model evaluations of its type

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Collaborated with the EPA Radiation Protection Division to research and improve the understanding of the impact of precipitation events on local radiation levels detected by RadNet, EPA’s nationwide near-real-time radiation monitoring system• Developed Python functions and scripts to analyze EPA’s RadNet data and NOAA NCEI meteorological data• Developed tools to quantitatively and qualitatively communicate the impacts of precipitation on RadNet radiation levels to ensure public audiences can determine the differences between normal and non-normal radiation levels. These communications can be used in regular public communication and engagement as well as during times of an emergency• Supported communication with Tribal Nations at a Regional Tribal Operations Committee (RTOC) meeting in EPA’s Region 6 to raise awareness about how EPA can support Tribal Nations in radiation protection and during radiological emergencies• Supported the Indoor Environments Division’s Tribal Air Quality Tribal Program by participating in internal meetings

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Provided personalized tours to prospective School of Meteorology students and participated in K-12 outreach programming. Goals were to familiarize all students with various career opportunities that are found within meteorology. This included showcasing opportunities within the Federal government, such as the National Weather Service, and within the private sector. Occasionally provided private tours to Pentagon officials and state level leadership who were at the National Weather Center for conferences and seminars.

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

• Responsible for analyzing daily operations of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) instruments across the Southern Great Plains, the East Coast, California, and Alaska. • Create and send data quality problem reports (DQPR) to appropriate ARM managers to alert of malfunctioning equipment in order to maintain the integrity of the radiation measurements collected at the various sites for future research projects. • Send weekly data quality reports (DQR) to create a database of completed quality checks • Participated in the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE) data collection campaign• Participated in the 2021—2022 Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment (TRACER) data collection campaign

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology

Associate Of Arts - Aa, General Studies

Received a broad in education in the arts, humanities, sciences, and mathematics. Focused on oral and written communication skills.