My research combines observations and modeling of atmospheric carbon dioxide to constrain the global carbon budget. I recently defended my Ph.D. at Caltech, where I studied how total column CO₂ observations can be used to infer robust estimates of large-scale carbon fluxes.

In September 2011, I will begin a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. I plan to simulate decadal scale variability in atmospheric CO₂ in order to identify fingerprints for fossil fuel CO₂ emissions. I will also use satellite data to map global fire severity and better constrain CO₂ emissions from biomass burning.

Education
Ph.D., Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology
M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology
S.B., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology