CV

Lead microwave remote sensing research on wetlands, surface hydrology, and the carbon cycle; principal investigator on NASA ECOSTRESS urban forest resilience and co-investigator on NISAR, SMAP, and CYGNSS collaborations while mentoring graduate and undergraduate researchers.

Integrate satellite observations with urban climate resilience partnerships, connecting CUNY expertise with city agencies on environmental health questions and stewarding interdisciplinary research teams.

Supported NISAR validation strategies and synthetic aperture radar applications for surface hydrology while collaborating with mission scientists.

Developed soil moisture retrieval and freeze/thaw monitoring algorithms for NASA SMAP and Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) campaigns.

Dissertation on monitoring surface melt processes on ice sheets under the supervision of Prof. Marco Tedesco.

Focused on applying remote sensing approaches to hydrological process studies.

Interdisciplinary coursework across environmental science and geography.

NASA Group Achievement Award

Carbon in the Arctic Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) Airborne Science Campaign.

Research support portfolio

$4.28M awarded ($0.84M as lead PI) across NASA Earth Science, NSF, and agency partnerships through October 2025.

Principal Investigator. High-Latitude Flood and Open Water Surveillance delivering rapid-tasked SAR flood intelligence for Alaska.

Co-Principal Investigator. Collaborative effort to couple field ecology with remote sensing diagnostics for transitional biomes.

Co-Investigator. Validating wetlands inundation and freeze/thaw algorithms for the global NISAR mission.

CUNY Principal Investigator. Evaluating environmental disparities and West Nile virus risk across New York City.

Lead Investigator. Fine-resolution assessment of heat mitigation and water stress in New York City urban forests.

Co-Investigator. Linking GNSS-R inundation retrievals with methane flux assessments to quantify carbon cycle feedbacks.

Co-Investigator. Established baseline glacier melt monitoring across the Hindu Kush Himalaya through large-scale SAR analyses.