ABOUT ME

I was born and raised in Austin, Texas. I have been passionate about meteorology since I was 8 years old. Living in central Texas, we had no shortage of impactful weather events, including severe weather, extreme heat, flash flooding, and even the occasional winter storm. Most meteorologists, and weather enthusiasts in general, have a significant weather event in their lives that spawned their interest in weather. For me, that event was a significant hailstorm that impacted the Austin metro on March 25, 2009. My interest for meteorology grew throughout the years, and it wasn’t long until I knew it was my calling.

I attended Texas A&M University for my undergrad, graduating in May 2023 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Meteorology. While at A&M, I was highly involved in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. I served as an officer for the Texas A&M Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (TAMSCAMS), a lead forecaster for the Texas Aggie Storm Chasers (TASC), and a radio and TV broadcaster for TAMU Weather.

I also attended a SEA-Met study abroad excursion to Barbados in May 2022, partnering with the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology for special lectures and field activities, including radiosonde launches to observe the Saharan Air Layer and the Wake Island Effect. To end my time as an undergrad, I was a participant of the TAMU Convective Storms Field Study in May 2023 to observe and forecast severe thunderstorms in the southern Great Plains, conducting radiosonde launches, weather briefings, and model verification experiments to aid the local NWS offices and the Storm Prediction Center in their forecasts. In summer 2022, I was a William M. Lapenta intern at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorology Laboratory in Miami, FL, where I researched the response of upper ocean velocity and thermal patterns to notable wind events across the tropical Atlantic in 2022, specifically for a wintertime cyclone and tropical waves afterwards.

My time at LSU began in June 2023. I am working under Dr. Paul Miller in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences in the Coastal Meteorology (CoMet) Lab.