University of Colorado - Boulder

Member at Large

Born in Tulsa, OK and raised in Pittsburg, KS, I completed my BS in Physics and Mathematics at Pittsburg State University in May 2006. While at PittState, I participated in Crystal Oscillator Acceleration Sensitivity Testing that was accepted to fly on NASA’s microgravity plane and I was accepted into the NASA Academy, in addition to half-a-dozen other research projects. The day after graduation, I married Donavan. A couple days later, we headed to GSFC for an internship. Upon completion of the internship, we moved to Colorado. My undergraduate career had been geared toward astronomy which I decided not to pursue. I took the next year to determine what avenue I wanted my career to take and settled on polar cloud research. During the spring semester of 2008, I accepted a graduate research position in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I plan on completing my PhD during the fall of 2012. I now live in Broomfield, CO with my husband and hree dogs (a.k.a., our kids – Anya (white Miniature Schnauzer), Avadon (black Miniature Schnauzer), and Miles (German Sheppard/Husky Mix). I am an avid practitioner of Genbu-Kai, a traditional Japanese martial art.