ABOUT ME

I'd categorize myself as a planetary geophysicist who focuses primarily on Ocean Worlds. We use the term Ocean Worlds for any planetary body that hosts an ocean. I am interested in quite a few topics in geophysics but generally I like to understand the interior interactions to explain the features expressed on the surface of a planetary body. This includes but not limited to cryovolcanism, gravity, and so on. I typically use/create models from analytical and numerical methods to understand the interior interactions, and the surface features act as constraints to these models. 

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Before I came to Baylor University and after my undergraduate, I was a research assistant to Dr. Lynnae Quick at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where I worked on cryovolcanism on Europa. I continued my research on Europa through 7 NASA internships at both JPL and GSFC on the chaotic terrains to try to understand how they formed through primarily mapping techniques both using traditional GIS methods and machine learning. 

 

I completed dual degrees in astronomy and geology with honors at the University of Maryland with a geology senior thesis on Sputnik Planitia, the left side of the heart on Pluto. Also, during my undergraduate, I completed a NASA internship at Goddard Space Flight Center, analyzing the dust impacts on the WIND spacecraft to understand their origin and possible threats of dust impacts to the Solar Park Probe. Although my research focuses on planetary science, I worked as an agronomy field trials assistant to Dr. Jason Wight at the University of Maryland for 5 years where we designed field trials to test varieties of crops like soybeans, wheat, and more to understand environmental resistances (e.g. diseases, drought). If you have any questions about my contributions to agronomy, please ask since my Research tab focuses on my planetary science contributions.