Professional Contributions
Achievements, Awards, Workshops, Leadership, Teachings, Memberships, Science Communications
Professional Service
Peer Review:
Environmental Research Letters (2 reviews)
npj Natural Hazards (2 reviews)
Professional Membership:
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2023–Present
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2024–Present
Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) 2024–Present
Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute (COPRI) 2025–Present
Selected Participant, NSF, Portland State University, OR | August 2025
Contributed to an interdisciplinary working group focused on understanding how interacting weather and climate hazards can create compounding and cascading risks for U.S. infrastructure, security, and community resilience. The group developed a risk storyline/scenario exploring plausible cascading impacts across interconnected systems. I also served as the group note-taker and reporting contributor, documenting key discussions, synthesizing group outcomes, and supporting the final reporting process.
Selected Follow, CUAHSI,CIROH, NOAA,The University of Alabama, AL| Summer 2025
Contributed as a CUAHSI/NOAA Summer Institute Fellow to interdisciplinary research efforts focused on water prediction and flood-inundation challenges. I served as the lead and co-lead on two projects, contributing to project coordination, data-driven modeling, workflow development, technical discussions, and research outputs supporting hydrologic prediction, flood mapping, and decision-making.
Selected Participant, NCAR/UCAR, Boulder, CO| August 2024
The 2024 GIS Program workshop was attended by 17 early career faculty and students who learned about Exploring Coastal Resilience and Flood Risk through Geospatial Storytelling held on Aug. 12-13, 2024 at NSF NCAR in Boulder, CO.
Science Communication and K–12 Outreach Contributor, Alabama Museum of Natural History, The University of Alabama | Spring 2024
My colleague, Michael Lewis, and I contributed to SciREN Alabama (Scientific Research and Education Network), a science communication and education outreach program that connects researchers with K–12 educators. Through this event, we shared our research on compound flooding and presented our plan to translate complex coastal flood-risk research into classroom-ready educational modules. We also presented the first version of our game-based learning activity, designed to help students explore compound flooding, coastal hazards, adaptation decisions, and community resilience through an interactive classroom experience.