Field Campaigns
NOAA-Saildrone Atlantic Hurricane Mission
In fall 2023, I joined the NOAA-Saildrone Atlantic Hurricane Mission. I served as mission manager for a two-week period and coordinated the intercept of hurricane Franklin, Lee and Idalia with multiple saildrones.
Convective Processes EXperiment – Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) – 2022
In 2022 NASA led CPEX-CV, the last chapter in the series of CPEX field campaign based in the island of Sal, Cabo Verde. During CPEX-CV, I served as lead flight scientist on two research missions that targeted convection within African easterly waves and the ITCZ as well as SAL airmass outbreaks.
Convective Processes EXperiment – Aerosols and Wind (CPEX-AW) – 2021
The CPEX experience led to another NASA-led field campaign, this time based in St. Croix. CPEX-AW featured an expanded instrument suite on board the DC-8 which allowed us to collaborate with the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign (JATAC) led by the European Space Agency and partake in the calibration and validation of AEOLUS lidar wind retrievals. Along with my colleague Ajda Savarin, I coordinated a very talented forecasting team consisting of graduate students from different US institutions. During CPEX-AW we also joined our efforts with the NOAA-PMEL saildrone campaign to validate the atmospheric and oceanic measurements taken by the saildrones during the North Atlantic hurricane season. We dedicate all our research to the memory of Dr. Gail Skofronick-Jackson, who was the heart and soul of CPEX-AW.
Convective Processes EXperiment (CPEX) – 2017
In 2017, NASA led the CPEX field campaign based in Ft. Lauderdale to study the processes involved in oceanic convection using a suite of instruments mounted on board the DC-8 airplane. As a first-year graduate student, I was involved primarily as a mission forecaster and as an instrument assistant during the research flights. During CPEX I experienced my first flight into a tropical cyclone (Tropical Storm Cindy) which prompted us to explore the role of subsidence warming as an ingredient in tropical cyclone formation. If you want to learn more about it, here is our paper published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
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