
Recent Research
I recently completed a one year (August 2017-July 2018) Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Grant and cross-cultural exchange program funded jointly by the U.S. Department of State and Government of India. During this time, I was working collaboratively with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)’s Disaster Research Programme and India’s National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) to study local…
Pipeline CSI: A volunteer army of citizen scientists is watching pipeline construction and safeguarding waterways
This article was written for and appeared in Blue Ridge Outdoors on March 29, 2019. More than 50 residents pack into the Rockfish Valley Community Center in Nellysford, Virginia, to learn how to fight pipelines even as they begin going into the ground. Coordinators of the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI) are teaching this group…

Photos from the Field
Photo gallery of recent research expeditions. These images taken during fieldwork for my Master’s thesis in July 2015, document the impacts of inundation in the Kanali River Basin and the creative ways people have adapted to live with floods.