Community & Stakeholder Engagement
Climate Talks
- 🎬Co-produced a short film on lithium mining for EVs on Indigenous lands (2024)
- Held an in-person symposium on Invasive Species of Thought & Indigenous Climate Perspectives (2023)
- Invited Indigenous leaders to discuss industrial-induced climate change (2022)
- Secured funding, organized & hosted Climate Talks (2021)
Indigenous Workshops
AAG Career Panel
California Geographic Alliance
Climate Science & Technical Proficiency
Research & Field Work
Communication & Project Management
- Climate Science & Modeling: WRF & CMIP/ERA5 data, climate change, risk, suitability
- Data Analysis & Management: Spatiotemporal statistical analysis of large geophysical datasets (vector & raster), Geospatial analysis & visualization
- Technical Proficiency: MATLAB, ArcPro, GIS, Linux OS, GrADS, R, NVivo, NCAR supercomputing
- Research Focus: International (Amazon rainforest) & local (southern California), applied climatology, climate change, suitability, risk, adaptation
- Survey/Interview Development & Collection: Local & international, Qualtrics
- Indigenous Relations: Climate symposiums, short-film production
- Communication & Engagement: University-level teaching, hosting symposiums/workshops, alumni relations, moderating for national organizations
- Content Creation: Canva (newsletters, blogs, LinkedIn articles, infographics)
- Web Design: WordPress, Wix
- Project Management & Collaboration: Multi-disciplinary collaboration, strategic & creative thinking, mentorship
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⬅️ San Diego farming studied for insights on regenerative agriculture, climate change
⬅️Southern California winegrowers are seeing earlier vineyard events due to climate shifts, emphasizing the need for long-term resilience strategies
⬅️The Southern Border Coalition’s workshops unite tribes, environmental groups, and stakeholders for community-led discussions and research, focusing on equitable economic development and climate resilience in San Diego and Imperial Counties
⬅️Uses high-resolution WRF-SSIB climate model projections to assess future winegrape cultivation suitability in Southern California, predicting significant impacts on grapevine ripening and wine quality due to a projected mid-21st-century temperature increase of 1.2°C and an 11% decrease in precipitation
⬅️Highlights from the latest IPCC report attribute current global warming to human actions, prompting global mitigation and adaptation efforts. Research in San Diego County, CA, recommends enhancing cross-sector communication, prioritizing adaptation equally with mitigation, and incorporating environmental and climate justice
⬅️Evaluates 13 CMIP6 climate models on the Brazilian Amazon’s hydrological cycle using spatial pattern mapping, Taylor diagram, and EOF analysis. Identifies top performers and aids in understanding precipitation projections crucial for agriculture, energy, and water security, supporting reliable future climate scenarios
🏆Won best paper of the year for the journal
⬅️Deforestation in Rondônia’s protected Amazon areas could reduce dry season rainfall by up to 30%, create warmer, drier local climates, increase vapor deficit stress on vegetation, and enhance rainfall over newly cleared areas, negatively impacting agricultural productivity
⬅️Deforestation in the Legal Amazon Region, driven by cattle ranching, agriculture, and weakened policies, threatens 832,000 km² of unprotected rainforest. Despite covering only 15% of the Amazon, it accounted for 36% of last year’s illegal deforestation. WRF simulations show forest loss impacts regional climate, altering surface energy balance, wind circulation, temperature, and dry season rainfall
