Meteorologist | Wildfire
Send a job offer directly to this candidate
I have a Master's in Meteorology from San Jose State University where I performed research related to wildfires and studying wildfire behavior. During my time at SJSU I was part of the remote sensing team within the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC) and performed research related to thermal imaging of wildfire behavior. I partook in an internship program with the Naval Research Laboratory studying how different satellite retrieval products perform in measuring fire radiative power.
Overall, I have been involved in the wildfire community for many years, invested in personal research interests of lightning, and involved in a lot of wildfire and lightning science communication and outreach. My programming skills are in python.
As a research assistant at San Jose State, I performed research and contributed to two projects. The first project was to develop an organized database of a dataset provided by Cal Fire of the thermal images captured during operational flights in the 2020 fire year. I then developed an automated method of extracting the active fire edges of the images pertaining to several fires.
The second project involved several parts, including identifying the wavelength spectrum we wanted to use in a camera system to measure fire behavior from an aircraft, capturing data from wildfires during field campaigns, and developing the methods to analyze the data. My data analysis involved integrating multiple cameras with an inertial navigation unit, spatially visualizing fire progression, calculating fire radiative power, and improving the method of delineating active fire edges in the thermal imagery.
San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center. Master's of science in Meteorology studying remote sensing and use of thermal imagery to capture and analyze wildfire behavior.
