RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

I enjoy spending time with my daughter, climbing, skiing, reading, and music.

My research is focused on improving the ability of satellites to measure smoke particles from space. Forest fires have existed for as long as there have been forests, and that means that the smoke particles put into the atmosphere have been affecting the climate for just as long. Because wildfires tend to happen in the wild, day and night, all over the world, the only practical way to measure how many/how big/how black or white or brown the smoke particles are that are going into our atmosphere is by using satellites.