Using software and data to find answers to real-world questions in sustainable aviation and migration.
Projects
Contrails Australia
An investigation into contrail formation in Australian skies exploring where, when, and why these ice-crystal trails appear behind aircraft.
Exploring the Lives of Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong
An R-based geospatial analysis examining where various migrant communities congregate in Hong Kong.
Airline Magazine Database
A web application to track the inventory of my airline magazine collection.
Early Sri Lankan Migration to Australia
What happened to the 500 onboard the SS Devonshire in 1882? A digital humanities project tracing the first mass migration of Sri Lankans to Australia. Presented at the 2022 Bucknell Research Conference.
Papers
Assessing the Solution of Biofuels to Curb Commercial Aviation Emissions in Brazil
Using R and Python with open data to estimate the land area required to offset Brazil's 2023 passenger aviation emissions through sustainable aviation fuel.
Decision Trees & Logistic Regression to Optimize Airport Operations
Predicting flight delays using binary classification models trained on 25 features from a Kaggle dataset.
Sustainable Campus Landscaping at Lafayette College
Using digitised archive maps and Python to trace 40 years of change in campus landscaping and green cover.