Welcome to my personal research blog.
It is a continual work in progress.
Email: lyndsay.es@gmail.com
About Me:
I am a research statistician in the statistical sciences department at Sandia National Laboratories where I develop novel statistical approaches to national security problems. I also hold an adjunct faculty position in the department of statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research interests include spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, point process models, Bayesian hierarchical models, and Statistical methods for remotely-sensed data, atmospheric and climate applications.
I received my B.S. in Mathematics and Spanish at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania after growing up skiing and swimming in Park City, Utah. Afterwards, I earned my Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where research focus was in spatial-temporal statistics. Outside of my research, I still compete competitively in swimming and enjoy engaging with and building the local swimming community in Albuquerque!
Areas of active research:
Methods for assessing risk of compound (multivariate) extreme weather events with a particular focus on impact to energy grid infrastructure
Validation of AI climate model emulation
Detection & Classification algorithms using remote sensing data, e.g. how to use often noisy observational data to detect anomalies.
Environmental Security - Monitoring and risk assessment of environmental/climate threats to water security, food security, energy security and global supply chain