My thesis focuses on data science and urban ecology if you're interested!
Surface OzoneP.S. I'm still working on formatting and the final css doc for this site. It may not look the best for now, but I'll be making updates as time goes on :D
This website is dedicated to a summary of the reasearch and funding opportunities that allowed me to succeed in graduate school. I also added old classwork, final presentations, and statisitcal tutorials that have helped me over the course of my academic career. Most the of the work on this website is freely avaliable on my Github.
Old Posters and Class Projects
Most Recent Work Experience
Upcomming Projects/Ideas
As a multi-disiplinary scholar, I have been fortunate enough to be apart of many research projects over the last decade. Many of them became inspiration for my research. My thesis uses Google Earth Engine, EPA monitor data, and statistical learning methods to model surface ozone for urban exposure analysis.
A poster I made with some friends of mine for a class at UCSB.
Ditigal Elevation Model of Mauna Loa, HI overlayed with a hillshade created in GEE.
Training variables and predictive results from the XGBoost model in my thesis.
An 8-day simulation of growing tree density created for fire risk analysis.
A refined image of Messier 31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) using the LCO at UCSB.
I started my academic journey after community college. I attended Chaffey in Rancho Cucamonga and was later accepted into UCSB in 2017. I graduated in
2020 with a double major in Geography and Physics. My Geography degree came with a specialization in GIS, and I wanted to further pursue it at the
highest level. I was accepted into the Geography department at CU, Boulder as a Master's student under Dr. Guofeng Cao in 2021. At STARlab,
our work focused on leveraging computer science and statistical learning to advance geographic theory. Like Dr. Cao, my mentors inspired me to pursue
topics like food inscurity, urban health, and environmental justice. As you may have noticed, all of these are sprinkled throughout my work in some manner.
These are works and fun little side projects I've done in the past two years. I took a long time to finish my MA due to many trials and tribulations stemming from a difficult upbrining. I was awarded assistantships and grants that allowed me to continue working on my mental health while developing my skills as a writer, researcher, and fellow team-member.
This will take you to an excerpt from my thesis. I only included the first two chapters due to the total length (163 pages). It was reduced from nearly 260 pages due to the many avenues I tried to take. After deciding to focusing on the machine learning and geostatistical applications of my work, I hope to apply the results to more human centric GIS work.
I had the pleasure of working with NC CASC as a CEST member to start my work on the topographic signature of life project. For this work, I wrote a quite blog detailing it's importance and furture directions. It's not yet avaliable, but it will be soon! This was part of a program called the Climate Adaptation Scientists of Tomorrow which funded my final semester at CU.
The FIRe Event Delineation tool (FIREDPY) created by Earth Lab at CU. I was briefly apart of some summer work that fixed some edge-case issues on the program. It's a Python based CLI that classifies individual burn detections into discrete events from 2001 to near-present. It returns both a table and shapefiles of fire events for a time and place (Balch et. al., 2020).
I made a map of where I've been!
Spoiler...you'll notice it's mainly in the US and surrounding nations. Most of the road trips I've taken across the US were with my Grandparents when I was young. I hope to scan some old pictures and upload them into the POI summaries.
With the skills I've learned from UCSB and CUB, I hope to start working towards a financially stable life and travel like they did. When life and time permits, I hope to get my passport and travel to each of the major continents. Some of my favorite places and future destinations are on it as well!