I am a PhD student in the Physics department working with Professor Stuart Bale, Dr. Trevor Bowen, and Dr. Alfred Mallet at the Space Sciences Lab. I am interested in improving our understanding of solar wind source regions and heating mechanisms using multi-spacecraft in-situ observations. I also serve as the Student PI (under the advisement of Dr. John Bonnell) of the FIELDS suite on the OCHRE sounding rocket which will study ion heating and outflows in the Earth’s polar cusps.