Writer | Scientist | Science Communicator
(sometimes all at once)
About Me
Hi! My name is Chad, and I'm a fourth-year PhD candidate in Atmospheric and Climate Science at the University of Washington. As a graduate student, I'm interested in how rainfall extremes and flooding events come to be. There are a myriad of ways to answer parts of this question, but I have specifically been looking at how tropical phenomena--in this case, the Madden-Julian Oscillation--can modulate West Coast atmospheric rivers.
But what really brought me into the atmospheric sciences was writing and reporting on the environment. Before starting my PhD, I wrote for a variety of publications on environmental justice and decarbonization. I have since expanded into science writing and data journalism focused on climate change, science policy, and extreme weather.
Before and throughout my time as a researcher, I have been in various science communication and science writing spaces. I was the Data Fellow at Grist in 2022, the Climate Change Editorial Fellow from 2022 through 2025 at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and I was the 2025 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Inside Climate News. My reporting and science writing has appeared in Grist, Inside Climate News, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Imagine5, Next City, Documented, Gothamist and elsewhere.