I've been a faculty member in the CMU Meteorology Program since Summer 2018. As part of the Meteorology Program, I teach courses including Dynamic and Physical Meteorology (MET 320, 330, 335), Meteorological Instrumentation and Observations (MET 312), and Mesoscale Meteorology (MET 450), in addition to an introductory course on Severe and Unusual Weather (MET 140). CMU's location in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan makes it an ideal location to study the influence of lake breezes on convection initiation through fieldwork, complemented by idealized modeling studies. In addition to convection initiation, my group conducts research related to destabilization of thunderstorm outflow airmasses, and additional topics at the intersection of boundary layer and mesoscale dynamics. I involve students in my research through NSF funding and the CMU-STORM (Student Training for Observational Research in Meteorology) program that I developed and direct. Information on specific current and former projects is available on my Research page.

My training prior to joining the faculty at CMU includes a postdoc in the Severe Storms Research Group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a visiting graduate fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, completion of graduate research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the groups of Drs. Dave Kristovich and Bob Rauber, and a B.S. in Meteorology from SUNY Oswego.

Current Opportunities:

I am currently recruiting a graduate student to join my group as soon as May 2025 to participate in the ICECHIP field campaign and conduct research on cold pool substructures in relation to hail swaths. I encourage prospective grad students to contact me to discuss these opportunities.