CV

Education ***

• Ph.D. Student in Environmental Water Resource Systems Engineering, Cornell University (Present)
• B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2021
  • Minor in Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts
• Study Abroad at University of Leeds, UK, 2017

Work experience ****

• Ph.D. Studeent, Cornell University (2021 - Present)
  • Studying water resource decision making under deep uncertainty
  • Contributor to Waterprogramming.wordpress.com
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow
  • Reed Research Group
  • Research topics include (but not limited to):
    • Integrated water resource modelling
    • Synthetic streamflow generation
    • Multi-objective optimization
    • Machine learning

• Research Associate, US Bureau of Reclamation, Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility (2020)

• Undergraduate Research Assistant, UNM Center for Water & Environment (2019-2020)
  • Studying nutrient dynamics in headwater streams of the Rio Grande river.
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon
• Undergraduate Researcher, Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology & Applied Science (Summary 2019)
  • NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates
  • Studying peatland soil and hydrology in the Great Dismal Swamp
  • Contributed to Word et al., (2022) Hydrological Processes
• Transportation Planning Intern, Albuquerque Mid-Region Council of Governments (2018)
  • Studying trends in pedestrian and cycling traffic in Albuquerque

Skills *****

• Decision making support:
  • Optimization
  • Robustness analysis
  • Scenario discovery
  • Sensitivity analysis
• Machine learning:
  • Prediction in ungauged basins with ML
• Programming: Python, MATLAB

Publications *******

Peatland drainage alters soil structure and water retention properties: Implications for ecosystem function and management

Word, Clayton S., et al. (2022). "Peatland drainage alters soil structure and water retention properties: Implications for ecosystem function and management." Hydrological Processes. 36.3

Talks ******

Student Engagement and Leadership Panel

November 16, 2019

Panel at 2019 Peace Engineering Consortium, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Diagnostic Assessment of Water Supply Reliability in the Delaware River Basin Under Historic Streamflow Conditions

December 16, 2023

Poster at American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2023, San Francisco, California

Teaching ******

CEE598 Decision Framing and Analytics

Awards: *******

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
• UNM Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering Outstanding Student of the Year (2018 & 2020)