I am currently a PhD candidate in the Physics Department at Utah State University. I work with Dr. Vincent Wickwar's Rayleigh lidar group at USU's Atmospheric Lidar Observatory (ALO). My work focuses on the development of our extremely sensitive Rayleigh-Mie-Raman lidar and the various atmospheric properties and dynamics (densities, temperatures, waves) that can be measured with this new instrument.
Conference Papers
Results from an Extremely Sensitive Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar (with Vincent B. Wickwar) (2012)
Rayleigh-Scatter lidar systems effectively use remote sensing techniques to continuously measure atmospheric regions, such as...
Conference Posters
First Temperature Observations with the USU Very Large Rayleigh Lidar: An Examination of Mesopause Temperatures (with Vincent B. Wickwar, Joshua P. Herron, Marcus J. Bingham, Lance W. Petersen, and Matthew T. Emerick), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (2012)
Upgraded ALO Rayleigh Lidar System and Its Improved Gravity Wave Measurements (with Vincent B. Wickwar, Joshua P. Herron, and Marcus J. Bingham), CEDAR Workshop (2012)
The Rayleigh-Scatter lidar system at the Atmospheric Lidar Observatory (ALO) on the Utah State campus...
Observations with the Most Sensitive Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar (with Vincent B. Wickwar, Joshua P. Herron, and Marcus J. Bingham), Intermountain Graduate Research Symposium (2012)
The mesosphere is the most unexplored region of the atmosphere. Its altitude range of 50-85...
The World's Most Sensitive Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar (with V. B. Wickwar, J P. Herron, Marcus J. Bingham, and Lance W. Peterson), CEDAR Workshop 2011 (2011)
A lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) system uses lasers to probe the atmosphere. It makes...
Characterization of Pollen Particles Using LIDAR, Frontiers In Optics (2010)
We have observed pollen in the local troposphere using the depolarization capabilities of a LIDAR...