My research focuses on mesoscale regional climate and extreme weather. I have extensively worked on Santa Ana Winds -a seasonal downslope wind regime of Southern California and Northern Baja California- and its effect on creating extreme fire weather conditions. I am especially interested in the variability of regional climate to which populations have adapted and coexisted with, but whose likely future behavior is yet unseen in the coupled human-environment system. For this purpose, I utilize statistical tools and modelling to investigate natural regional climate variability and changes of anthropogenic origin.