“Water is the driving force of all nature” - Leonardo da Vinci

I am a low temperature hydrogeochemist working on global water and elemental cycles, their relative feedbacks, and their response to unprecedented land use changes and a rapidly changing global climate in the Anthropocene. I am primarily interested in terrestrial environments, which comprises the most vibrant and yet most vulnerable portion of the Earth’s surface called the Critical Zone - the thin portion of Earth’s surface extending from the top of the canopy all the way to the bedrock where life, water, and rocks interact.

My research involves the use of a variety of environmental tracers such as stable and radiogenic isotopes as well as trace elements to uncover the diverse chemical, biological, and hydrological proceses that shape the landscapes, ecosystems, and global climate we observe today. My work is highly interdisciplinary and involves a combination of laboratory experiments, geochemical reactive transport and hydrological models, and field analyses.

I recently graduated with a PhD in Geology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and am currenly a postdoc at Cornell University under the Provost’s Faculy Fellowship. I will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University starting January 2022.