Hey there! 👋 I grew up in the northernmost town in the United States, surrounded by sea ice and the people who depend on it to survive. That experience gave me a deep appreciation for the Arctic environment and a curiosity about how people and ice interact.
I earned my B.S. in Environmental Science from Vanderbilt University and a Master’s from the University of Washington. Now I’m in my second year of a PhD at Duke University, where I’m diving into the world of remote sensing and geospatial methods. A lot of this is new to me, and I’m learning as I go — from mapping landfast ice to experimenting with machine learning for sea-ice classification.
Follow along as I keep building skills, asking questions, and growing into this field throughout my PhD journey!
🧪 Right now I’m training a U-Net to map landfast ice and nearshore polynyas from Sentinel-2 imagery. This supports a broader project on trail mobility and access for Inuit communities in the Arctic.
