I grew up on a dirt road in Minnesota, exploring the mixed forests and grasslands of my childhood home. At 18, I left Minnesota to pursue B.S. degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After 4.5 years of enduring screen-time, I took a technology detox and hiked for 5 months along the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada, where walking from biome to biome, day after day, taught me to think at the "landscape scale\u201d.<\/p>\n
Nearly a decade later, I work on landscape-sized problems as an Earth scientist studying the carbon cycle of North American forests. Using satellite remote sensing, land-atmosphere models and tower-based gas monitors, I\u2019ve researched topics ranging from urban CO2 emissions monitoring, carbon impacts of bark beetle and wildfire mortality, and continental-scale tracking of plants\u2019 photo-protective pigments. I am a NASA and NSF research fellow and am fortunate to call the University of Utah my professional home, where I garner my inspiration from the beaUTAHful Wasatch mountains.<\/p>\n
As a queer scientist, I strive to be a supportive colleague and mentor to people of all identities. I believe that diversity makes every community stronger across all scales, from one-on-one relationships, to lab groups and departments, to global networks of humans and professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I grew up on a dirt road in Minnesota, exploring the mixed forests and grasslands of my childhood home. At 18, I left Minnesota to pursue B.S. degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After 4.5 years of enduring screen-time, I took a technology detox and hiked for 5 months… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,69,41],"tags":[],"location":[475],"class_list":["post-13671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atmospheric-science","category-earth-and-planetary-science","category-ecology","location-salt-lake-city"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13671"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flocation&post=13671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}