I am currently the Lab chief for the ITM lab and a space physics researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, working with the LAMP, petitSat, Artemis, and SPI missions. As an undergraduate at Augsburg College with Mark Engebretson, I started researching waves in Earth's magnetosphere using ground-based magnetometers in the Arctic and Antarctic. I moved away from waves to focus on geomagnetic storms and substorms during my masters at the University of Colorado Boulder with Dan Baker. Still, I returned to waves with my Ph.D. at the University of Newcastle NSW, Australia, working under Brian Fraser. My Ph.D. thesis was on Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) waves during the CRRES mission and their relationship to the plasmasphere and radiation belts. During my postdoc at Dartmouth College, I worked on the BARREL mission. I have moved down the field line (from a space perspective) and looked at the population of particles lost due to these interactions and their impact on the ionosphere and upper atmosphere.
Today, I continue to bounce around the heliosphere and work to connect these regions, processes, and analysis techniques across boundaries. Much of my research is cross-disciplinary and focused on space weather - two of the Goddard vectors
