While at Brown, I combined research goals from both institutions into a master's project. Through a collaboration with Dr. Scott Braun, an atmospheric scientist at GSFC, we used novel and existing visualization methods to better understand meteorological processes that might otherwise have been obscured or misinterpreted, as the models are complex and the resultant data sets very large.
By using the uncertainty and multi-field context of air parcel trajectories, we worked to gain new insight into the composition of a developing hurricane's local environment. We also demonstrated the viability of a new meteorological theory proposing that hurricanes develop in protected, "marsupial" pouches.