scientific research

I've been working as an intern at the Caltech under Dr. Andrew Thompson, Director of Caltech's Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science, for the past four years. I've explored climate modeling solutions and observational data analysis to utilize science as another method to fight climate change. While advocacy and sustainability are very effective tools, I believe that we cannot stop the climate crisis without developing scientific breakthroughs that will help us counteract our emissions of greenhouse gases. Most recently, I proposed an independent study investigating the impact of sea ice thickness on under-ice light spectra and its consequences for phytoplankton communities and carbon export efficiency in the Southern Ocean, and I've written a paper on my results, which I've submitted to the Regeneron Science Talent Search competition.

 

In the past, I've also analyzed geostrophic events in the Southern Ocean, specifically upwelling and downwelling patterns influenced by the Ekman Transport to examine carbon sequestration changes. I truly hope that the results of my research can drive action and provide solutions to our climate crisis — until then, you can catch me tinkering with parameters on a climate model or tapping away on a Jupyter Notebook! (read my research paper or see my GitHub for more 😉)