Welcome! I am a project scientist with the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). I am currently working on the Disaster Dynamics project. We are creating educational games for understanding natural disaster planning. Before coming to NCAR, I was a member of the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science studying the collaborative construction aspects of Open Source Software. You can read my thesis if you are interested. I received my undergraduate degree from Cornell University where I studied Computer Science and Psychology.

The links on the left will direct you to more information about my various research interests and the systems which I have developed. Although doing research is far more fun than reading about research, I hope that you will encounter things that you find interesting.

This Web site is meant to emphasize the "less is more" philosophy of information design. There is already plenty of stuff to read on the Web without me adding even more stuff. These pages only scratch the surface of what I could talk about. I have taken great care to make these pages universally accessible by the wide range of techniques for accessing the World Wide Web, but of course I've not been able to test everything. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to discuss things in more detail, I encourage you to contact me.