I was born in Houston in 1988. My parents are geologists and work for oil companies, so I've lived in the south most of my life. I moved to Lafayette, Louisiana when I was 4, and pretty much grew up there. My parents moved back to Houston in summer 2001, and I spent my junior and senior years of high school in Dallas. Then I came to Denver and have spent the last 5 years here, at Mines. I have a Bachelor's degree in physics, and I'm currently working on a master's in applied math. Thanks to the warm climate I grew up in, I abhor snow and love warm thunderstorms and want to live on a tropical island someday.

    For fun, I like playing soccer and racquetball, playing computer and board games, climbing trees, watching movies, and hanging out. I listen to music almost all the time and love many different kinds, but I don't play any instruments.

    I am researching underwater acoustics under Dr. Jon Collis. I am working with the elastic equations of motion to model sound propagation in mediums with low shear speed. My Master's thesis topic will be on looking at this problem as a singular perturbation, using asymptotic perturbation methods to (hopefully) deduce an analytic solution, and setting up the problem's boundary and interface conditions. I am attempting to reformulate the equations of motion to be more suitable to modeling propagation through a low shear speed layer.

    I currently work for Dr. Barbara Moskal as a Graduate Student Fellow. I help teach 7th and 8th grade advanced math classes at Aurora East Middle School with Sara Weiss. Our program's goal is to interest kids in math, science, and engineering in the hope that one day they too will want to pursue a career in scientific fields!