About Me

I am interested in fluxes and physical processes at the air-sea interface and how these influence high-impact atmospheric systems such as hurricanes and extratropical cyclones.  I am particularly fascinated by the physics of air-sea interaction in high winds, where phenomena such as wave breaking and sea spray ejection push the limits of current understanding and modeling capabilities.  I approach these challenging topics by developing physics-based air-sea flux parameterizations and model coupling strategies, implementing them in fully coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean regional models, and performing numerical experiments to understand the complex interactions connecting storms to air-sea processes.  While at WHOI for my postdoc, I am also exploring techniques to make the difficult observations critically needed to understand high-wind air-sea interface physics and to calibrate models.  I view improvement of fully coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean modeling systems as a fantastic opportunity for enhancing our understanding of severe weather systems and our ability to protect the people and built environments that are impacted by them.