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I work to better understand the relationship between water table, climate, sea level, and ice sheets at a regional to global scale. I develop and use computer models to simulate changing water table over thousands of years. I also develop and use tools for landscape analysis.

News

April 2024: Louis Quigley, an undergraduate student working in my lab, took first place for his category at the UIC Undergraduate Research Forum! He's been working on a really cool project to understand the relationships between depressions and other landscape characteristics.

August 2023: I'm so happy to welcome the first official graduate student to my group! Welcome, Mohammad, and I hope we'll do plenty of good research together.

May 2023: I attended the CSDMS annual meeting and was reminded of why I love this conference so much! Wow - there's no better place to connect and share research with others interested in modelling and the Earth surface.

April 2023: I visited UIUC and spoke about Hydrologic Connectivity in the United States at their Earth Science & Environmental Change Colloquium. It was lovely to be so welcomed and to discuss some ideas with the faculty there.

April 2023: Jeffrey Kwang came to visit and presented at our EAES seminar series. His work on the controls on landscape evolution is fascinating!

March 2023: I was happy to welcome my first invited speaker to UIC EAES's seminar series! Wolfgang Schwanghart, landscape evolution modeller and author of the TopoToolbox blog, visited and spoke about predicting landscape evolution.

January 2023: It's official! I've just started my new position as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences . I look forward to getting my research group up and running and finding which new directions our research will take.

December 2023: I'm heading to AGU in Chicago for my first in-person conference since 2019! Looking forward to making those in-person connections and seeing some familiar (and many unfamiliar) faces.

September 2022: I had the opportunity to present at Lehigh University's weekly Earth Science seminar. I was able to visit in person and had some good conversations with both students and faculty members.

March 2022: I've accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Illinois Chicago! If all goes well, I'll be starting there in January next year.

February 2022: I was honoured to present at UCSC's Whole Earth Seminar . I had a wonderful time discussing my research!