I am a mountain hydrologist specializing in catchment-scale processes in high-elevation environments. I examine how climate change is reshaping mountain landscapes and how adaptation strategies can be developed in ways that are both effective and equitable. My research integrates field-based observations, process-based modeling, and remote sensing to analyze snowpack and glacier dynamics, and their implications for runoff and watershed behavior.

Many of the most severe impacts I study are not due to a lack of scientific understanding, but rather stem from longer histories of uneven power, resource extraction, and entrenched systems of governance. Grounded in Critical Physical Geography, I draw on both physical and social scientific methods to connect hydrologic processes with the political and institutional conditions that shape their impacts and responses. This approach prioritizes rigorous, process-based understanding of mountain hydrology while situating that work within the structures that determine its relevance and use. It also orients my research to collaborate with the communities most directly affected by the hydrologic dynamics that I study.