My first career was as a wildland firefighter and fire management specialist for the US DOI National Park Service and USDA Forest Service. My education in natural resource management and dendrochronology came with a strong emphasis on Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing which became the focus of my current work. Today, I work mostly on spatial data infrastructures as a data scientist for CyVerse. Areas of Interest include Image Analysis, Large Scale Visualization, Data Science Literacy. Educational Background: PhD Watershed Management, University of Arizona 2013, MS Watershed Management, University of Arizona, 2006, BS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2002