I am a researcher in earth science and human rights who specializes in the spatial analysis of climate data and open-source investigation. Through my academic and non-academic work, I strive to leverage science as a means of advocating for the public good.
My primary line of research considers less-lethal weapons from the perspectives of physics and public health, with a particular emphasis on the risk management of less-lethal weapon hazard. Past works on the ballistics of impact projectiles have been cited in sessions of the Chilean Senate and Constitutional Convention; my work on the health hazards of impact projectiles achieved widespread circulation in the wake of the George Floyd protests in 2020.
I also study past climate change using a combination of field mapping, remote sensing, and geochronology applied to landscape evolution. I specialize in Patagonian glaciers and their response to shifting modes of climate variability throughout the Holocene. My expanding body of literature—using cosmogenic surface exposure dating, radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, stratigraphy, and paleoglacier reconstruction—has contributed substantively to our understanding of past climate change in the Southern Hemisphere. First-authored publications in this field have been cited in chapters 2 and 9 of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
Other research interests include cost-effective applications of open-source data to geologic problems using GIS, hazards associated with changing climate, and risk management in wilderness activities for underrepresented groups.
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