PhD Student in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
I am currently a PhD student at Colorado State University. My research focus is on projecting future risk from tornadoes and hail storms across eastern Colorado due to changes in both population dynamics and meteorology. I received a Bachelor's degree in Atmospheric Science from Purdue University in 2014, during which time I was a co-author on three publications. I received a Master's degree in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University in 2017, and published two first-author papers, with another co-authored paper currently in review. My passion within the field is to work toward understanding trends in severe weather and improving societal outreach and communication of severe weather risk information, especially to under-represented people groups.
Destructive 2018 hail season a sign of things to come
Sep 25, 2018 17:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As ominous skies moved overhead just after noon on Aug. 6, the small splash of a hailstone was heard in the pool of the bear exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. Moments later, a barrage of ice...