I am a Ph.D. candidate enrolled in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Princeton University, conducting research at the Lab for Environmental Fluids and Thermodynamics (LEFT). Although my undergraduate studies at Rutgers University were in meteorology, my interests have pivoted from traditional operational forecasting to fluid dynamics, environmental research, and data science. As a doctoral student, my thesis employs numerical, statistical, and observational tools to simulate the changing Arctic sea ice surface and overlying atmospheric dynamics. Currently we are investigating the role of heterogeneity in sea ice surfaces, and how these rapid stable-to-unstable transitions affect atmospheric dynamics in climate models.