My work explores the intimate feedback loop between the water cycle and humanity. I use paleoclimate proxies (mainly tree rings) as well as climate and hydrological models to study the water cycle—its behavior over space and time across scales, in the past, present, and future. Working with historians and archaeologists, I examine how societies were affected by, and adapted to, such changes. This knowledge of the past is key to help societies cope with climate change in the future.

• Dendrochronology
• Hydrology
• Water resources management
• Paleoclimate

Geology of the National Parks - Springs 2025, 2026

Tree Rings and Climate - Fall 2025

• PhD, Singapore University of Technology and Design
• MS, Delft University of Technology
• MS, National University of Singapore
• BEng, National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne

• ICEtree: Investigating the Climatic Evolution of North American Ice Sheets with TREE Rings. Water Resources Committees of Clallam and Jefferson Counties, Washington.

• Shifting Snow, Changing Flow: Quantifying the Impacts of Warming-Induced Seasonal Streamflow Changes in the Snow-Fed Columbia River over the Past 500 years (National Science Foundation)

• Ultra-High Resolution Paleostreamflow in Southeast Asia: Proxy/Model Comparison (National Science Foundation)