Professional Biography
Meteorologist and advocate for women in STEM
As a scientist with the Mars Climate Modeling Center at NASA Ames Research Center, I study the physics and dynamics of the Martian atmosphere, develop open-source software, attend and present at science conferences internationally, and publish peer-reviewed research in scientific journals.
My primary scientific focus is Martian dust storms, but I have also presented research on global-scale mass change in the atmosphere of Mars and mesoscale crater dynamics. I enjoy mentoring students who intern with our team and discovering new ways to present our data visually, especially in 3D space.
My job requires lots of code development and testing. I write diagnostic scripts for testing and verifying our Mars Global Climate Model (MGCM) output and I am a co-developer of the Community Analysis Pipeline (CAP), an open-source, python-based analysis package for enhancing accessibility to our MGCM output. CAP can derive secondary variables, perform tidal analyses, bin and average data, and interpolate data to different grid resolutions, and more.
I lead the documentation efforts for the MCMC. I am the primary author of the User Manual for the MGCM and I created and maintain the auto-documentation for CAP. I continue to iterate on the User Manual with every subsequent public release of the MGCM.
I earned my Master of Science in Meteorology from SJSU in 2021. I continued working with the MCMC during graduate school through a partnership with the SJSU Research Foundation that funded my thesis research. Prior to that, I earned a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Creighton University. I minored in Atmospheric Science and Communication Studies.
My career at NASA began with an undergraduate internship with the MCMC that turned into a full-time offer upon graduation. I am fortunate to be in a position that enables me to learn from some of the best and brightest scientists in the world at NASA, and I am grateful to my mentors for recognizing my potential and nurturing my professional development as a scientist.
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