DEPARTMENT OF EARTH, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

Research

My research focuses on hydrogeology and hydrology, with particular interests in groundwater-surface water interactions and the response of freshwater systems to climatic variability and change. I am especially interested in lakes and their surrounding catchments as integrated hydrologic systems, including the role of groundwater in lake water budgets and the ways in which groundwater can influence the sensitivity and resilience of surface-water resources to climatic change.

My work combines field observations with numerical and data-driven approaches to characterize hydrologic processes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. These approaches include groundwater-flow and watershed modeling, water-budget analysis, climate-scenario analysis, and machine-learning methods for reconstructing hydrologic observations. I am particularly interested in the use of parsimonious and hybrid modeling approaches in data-limited settings, and in determining how useful information about complex hydrologic systems can be extracted from incomplete observational records.

More broadly, I am interested in understanding how groundwater, lakes, streams, and their catchments respond to environmental change and how these responses affect freshwater availability. My current and developing interests extend this work to questions of groundwater recharge and climate-driven changes in groundwater levels, streamflow, and groundwater-surface water exchanges, using environmental observations and large hydrologic datasets to identify patterns across sites and over time.

Teaching

Fall 2026:

EARTH 106: The Ocean, the Atmosphere, and Our Climate

EARTH 390: Special Topics: Hydrogeology

Winter 2027:

EARTH 363: Geographical Information Systems (GIS Level 1)

EARTH 390: Special Topics: Limnology

Spring 2027:

EARTH 213: Decision-Making in the Anthropocene

EARTH 363: Geographical Information Systems (GIS Level 1)