Additionally, she dabbles in exploring how fuel structure and terrain affect prescribed wildfire burns. Prior to working at LANL, she was a postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge working on understanding stratified ocean turbulence.
She received her PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder within the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Turbulence and Energy Systems Lab (TESLa) investigating non-linear interactions between upper ocean turbulence and climate relevant, reactive biogeochemical tracers such as CO2, phytoplankton, and nutrients.
Kat regularly works with large eddy simulations, global scale Earth system models, and both complex and reduced-order biogeochemical models.
Expertise
- Turbulence modeling
- Reactive flows,
- Geophysical flows,
- Biogeochemistry,
- Reduced order modeling,
- Large eddy simulations,
- Earth system modeling,
- Global carbon cycle,
- Marine food security