Areas of interest: habitability of exoplanets, evolution of biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres, detection of atmospheric constituents.
I grew up in New Hampshire then moved to Flagstaff, Arizona to complete my bachelors degree in Astronomy and Physics. In AZ I worked to assess JWST’s ability to observe Earth analogs around M type stars. I also worked for Lowell Observatory in education outreach and instrumentation for observing meteors with the Lowell Observatory Cameras for All-sky Meteor Surveillance (LO-CAMS) project.
At the University of Washington, I work with Victoria Meadows and Rory Barnes on modeling hydrodynamic thermal atmospheric escape in the atmospheres of terrestrial planets with M star hosts. I’m particularly interested in water loss due to this process, in oxygen buildup from the context of false positive biosignatures, and in the promising targets of the TRAPPIST-1 system