About

As a human-environment geographer, I study global environmental change and inequality by combining remote sensing, large social surveys, and statistical modeling. My research focuses on the social, climatic, and political drivers that generate inequality in multiple forms and how inequality in turn affects our environment. This research topic is grounded through two main areas of study. First, land grabs that are redefining land control globally and where I study their influence on local land inequality, agricultural production, and well-being. Second, I use remote sensing to generate flood exposure maps globally that are subsequently combined with socio-demographic data to investigate inequities in exposure and recovery.

You can download my CV here.

I am actively recruiting a PhD student for Fall ‘24. For interested, prospective students please see the Opportunities page for full details

News

• Aug 2023: Paper on the unequal impacts of large-scale land acquisitions was accepted to PNAS. See a short write-up here.
• June 2023: Featured on a podcast about “How scientists are helping flooding communities”. See recording here.
• April 2023: I helped host the first Flood Justice Symposium at the Univesrity of Arizona. See the full recording of the event here.
• Feb 2023: Collaboration with Dr. Tulbure’s GAEC Lab at North Carolina State University on generating flood maps for communities. Part of an AGU Thriving Earth Exchange project. Learn more here and here.