I work as a Research Scientist at Dartmouth College in the Thayer School of Engineering.  I develop and apply mathematical models to simulate subglacial hydrology and ice dynamics, presently as part of a collaborative project to understand the dynamics and behavior of Helheim Glacier in east Greenland.

I also practice and study yoga. I currently teach a Mysore program at Open Door in White River Junction, Vermont. Yoga has always somehow seemed familiar, and I have practiced certain techniques since I was very small.  I began learning yoga asana (postures) in formal classes around 2003 in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Since then, I have been fortunate to practice with many teachers along the way, from Utah to Texas, Pennsylvania, New Zealand, India, Panama, Colorado, Vermont, and beyond.  In 2012, I began to teach yoga in Boulder, Colorado, after completing a Hatha Yoga teacher training at Shoshoni Yoga Ashram, in the mountains near Rollinsville, and subsequently studied for some years with Shannon Paige. A special early influence was also Erica Kaufman, founder of Lila Yoga. Since 2016, I studied and practiced deeply in the Ashtanga tradition at The Yoga Workshop in Boulder until its abrupt closure in 2019, with Ty Landrum, Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor, Ashley Hixon, and others.  I have also studied intensely with Rod Stryker in Carbondale, Colorado.  I learn from every teacher I meet, and have been fortunate to travel widely and be exposed and introduced to practices from many traditions.  I spent most of 2020 living in India, several months doing seva at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, before moving higher up in the Himalayas near Uttarkashi. This lifetime has been very interesting so far.

I hold a BS in civil engineering from Rice University (2009) and a PhD from the University of Colorado (2018) in civil engineering (with my main graduate research involving numerical modeling of meltwater drainage and ice dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet).  Before coming to Dartmouth, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (2019-2020), doing ice sheet and climate/paleoclimate modeling. Prior to graduate school, I worked as a water resources engineer at Hydros Consulting in Boulder, Colorado. From 2009-2011, I lived and worked as an environmental health (water and sanitation) Peace Corps volunteer in a remote indigenous village in the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé of Panama. If you’re curious about what that world is like, have a look here.