Mentoring Mindset:
Building a strong network is crucial for success, since peer mentors, professional mentors, and life mentors can all provide perspectives and insight to help you succeed in different ways. I would like to be part of that network for folks navigating their degrees, to help students achieve their goals, and to provide for others benefits of mentorship that I still receive.
Higher Education and Employment Background:
- Research Scientist with CIMMS/SPC – 2018-present
- Postdoc with CIMMS/NSSL – 2018
- Ph.D. in Meteorology from OU – 2017
- B.S./M.S. in Meteorology from Penn State University – 2013/2014
Life Defining Moments in Meteorology and Higher Education:
- Experiencing lake-effect snow bands and rapidly changing visibility growing up
- Winning a Women in Science and Engineering Research scholarship as a freshman that got my foot in the door at a research lab
- A summer internship at SPC done during the summer after my junior year
- Working in NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed (here in the NWC!) transferring research to operations and vice versa
- Developing tools that SPC forecasters use when forecasting tornadoes