
Mentoring Mindset:
I aim to provide support and guidance to those exploring their personal and atmospheric science identities and how they can exist together.
Higher Education and Employment Background:
- 2015 – present: Affiliate faculty South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
- 2014 – present: University of Oklahoma Faculty
- Postdoc – Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, SUNY Albany
- PhD Atmospheric Science – Texas A&M University
- MS Atmospheric Science – Colorado State University
- BSc (Hons) Meteorology with a year in Oklahoma – University of Reading (UK)
Life Defining Moments in Meteorology and Higher Education:
- Studying abroad at OU as part of my undergraduate degree
- Having supportive women faculty as role models during my undergraduate degree
- Finding supportive advisors in graduate
- Taking time to explore different parts of the field during my education to find the place where my skills and interests all fit together (climate science)
- Seeing the sobering NSF statistics on diversity in the geosciences and the atmospheric science