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I am a postdoc at the University of Wyoming studying aerosol-cloud interactions in E3SM with Daniel McCoy. I completed my PhD in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington in 2023 where I studied overshooting convection and cirrus clouds in global storm-resolving models with Chris Bretherton.

My research encompasses how we can leverage comparisons between climate models across scales and observations to better understand clouds in our current climate system and how they might change in a future warmed climate. I am interested in clouds across the climate system, from thin cirrus in the tropics to overshooting convection as well the interactions between clouds and aerosols and how they influence the upper troposphere-lower stratopshere region. Global storm-resolving models (GSRMs), which are climate models with fine enough horizontal resolution (<5 km) to explicitly simulate deep convecion, are excellent tools for this purpose. However, these models are quite comptuationally expensive to run, so there is still utility in using coarser-resolution earth sytem models to investigate long-term climate simulations or extensive perturbed parameter ensembles. Observations, from process-level measurements to global satellite retrievals, are essential to interpreting model output of any kind. Confronting models with observations not only tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of each model, but also can reveal new insights into the physical world despite existing biases and limitations in the models.