What I do

I play a geologist on TV. That's not true. I have a lot of skills including engineering, programming, remote sensing, geology, web development and design, graphic design, photography, GIS, radar interferometry, archiving, education and outreach. I left my most recent position thanks to retaliation against me after reporting a gender harassment issue. [Is it 2006 or 1976?] Amazing how a few bad apples (misogynistic senior members) can ruin an otherwise excellent organization.

I successfully defended my dissertation on May 1, 2007.

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Where I came from

I grew up in Williamsburg, Virginia, received a B.S. from Caltech in 1993 (Engineering and Applied Science), worked at NASA JPL for three years, then went to Cornell University in 1996 to begin a Ph.D. under Bryan Isacks in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. I moved back to Southern California in summer 2002 and worked for the Tectonics Observatory as the GIS and Remote Sensing Team Leader (a.k.a. Cerebrate of the GIS and Remote Sensing Hive Mind) in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech. Now I am living in the Rocky Mountains just outside of Boulder, Colorado. I spent a year working for UNAVCO in Boulder before abruptly deciding to move on to better things like unemployment [see above explanation for why unemployment was the more enticing endeavor].

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