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Education
Education
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ, Santa Cruz, California
Ph D Candidate
Planetary Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Quentin Williams
September 2018 – Present
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA, Honolulu, Hawaii
MS Geology & Geophysics
Advisor: Dr. Anupam Misra
August 2017
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, South Hadley, Massachusetts
BA Astronomy
Minor Theater Arts
Advisor: Dr. M. Darby Dyar
May 2012
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY, Exeter, New Hampshire
May 2007
Skills
Skills
Scientific strengths in mineral and rock identification, optical microscopy, petrology, clean room laboratory sample preparation, planetary rover instrumentation, construction and experiment design of simulation chambers under Mars, Moon, Venus, and Earth conditions.
Skilled general and technical writer, speaker, project manager, and team lead and facilitator both in-person and remote.
Technical strengths in software and hardware applications for spectroscopy, remote sensing, imaging, Raman, XRD, UV-IR detectors, optics, microscopy, telescopes, photography, robotics, UAV/UAS FAA Licensed, 3D printing.
Comfortable with hardware builds from scratch and software development
Proficient in Python, Matlab, R, LabView, IDL, Octave, C++, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Adobe Suites, Microsoft Office Suites, camera and imaging drivers, Arduino, Raspberry PI interfaces, ENVI, ArcGIS, JMars, AutoCAD, Inventor, Cura (3D Printing)
Experience with XRD indexing programs: Jade, PDIndexer, Match, QAnalyze; astronomy software: MaximDL, Starry Night
Experience with machine learning and OCR libraries and packages including Keras, Tensorflow, Tesseract, KerasOCR, EasyOCR
Teaching strengths in active learning, inclusivity-focused approaches in the planetary and earth sciences. I celebrate in-class, community, and identity building, and use intersectional, equity-minded, and asset driven approaches.
Grants, Awards and Honors
Grants, Awards and Honors
UCSC Science Internship Program Grant (SIP) 2021
EPS Outstanding TA Award Honorable Mention 2021
CITL Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship 2021
AGU Fall Meeting Student Travel Grant 2020
SAS/NASLIBS Best Paper Award 2020
UCSC Science Internship Program Grant (SIP) 2020
NASA Ames Graduate Internship Award 2017 & 2018
NASA EPO Grant 2013
NOBCChE Advancing Science Award 2012
B.A. Sigma Xi Honors 2012
NASA EPO Grant 2012
Massachusetts Space Grant 2011
NLSI Research Grant 2011 & 2010
NSF, San Jose State REU 2009
Research Experience
Research Experience
NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER MSL COLLABORATOR &
BLUE MARBLE SPACE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATE May 2018-present
NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER GRADUATE INTERN, NIFS/USRA Aug 2017-Apr 2018
GRADUATE RESEARCHER & MARS 2020 COLLAB, Hawaii Institute for Geophysics & Planetology Aug 2014-Aug 2017
SRE OPTICS LABORATORY MANAGER, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Jul 2012-Aug 2014
LABORATORY RESEARCH ASSISTANT & NASA MSL COLLABORATOR, Mount Holyoke College Jan 2012-Sept 2014
NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER ASSOCIATE, NASA Lunar Science Institute Nov 2010-Sept 2011
NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER INTERN, San Jose State University REU Summer 2009
Professional Affiliations
Professional Affiliations
American Geophysical Union 2020-2022
Mineralogical Society of America 2020-2022
NOGLSTP 2012-2022
Sigma Xi 2012-2022
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