Expertise: Physical understanding and prediction of climate in North America through regional atmospheric modeling and analysis of observations; improving seasonal climate forecasts, convective-resolving simulations of severe weather, water resoure projection at regional and local scales, and contributions to parameterization development in the Weather Research and Forecasting model; development of improved capacity for weather climate research in other parts of the world, especially Latin America
My doctoral and postdoctoral work at the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University applied a regional atmospheric model to the investigation of North American summer climate. Current research within my group at the University of Arizona focuses principally on physical understanding and prediction of climate in North America through regional atmospheric modeling and analysis of observations. Specific topics being investigated in the scope of our projects include improving seasonal climate forecasts, convective-resolving simulations of severe weather, water resource projection at the regional and local scale, and contributions to parameterization development in the Weather Research and Forecasting model. Our projects engage the operational weather forecast community and water resource providers in the Southwest. Through my collaborations and outreach activities, I am also working to develop improved capacity for weather climate research in other parts of the world, especially Latin America.
SERDP Project of the Year, Resource, Conservation, and Resiliency
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Fall 2017
Excellence at the Student Interface
Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Spring 2016
NEXUS Fulbright Fellowship
International Council on Exchange of Scholars, Fall 2014
Honorary Commander, 25th Operational Weather Squadron
USAF, Davis-Monthan AFB, Spring 2014