Experience

Alaska Earthquake Center

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communications Manager

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  As the Communications Manager for Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC), I oversee earthquake-related communications and community outreach. This includes crafting and disseminating all communications content across platforms, including written, visual, social-media, and more. AEC is committed to community, state-wide, national, and international awareness of earthquake science and earthquake hazard. As the Communications Manager for Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC), I oversee earthquake-related communications and community outreach. This includes crafting and disseminating all communications content across platforms, including written, visual, social-media, and more. AEC is committed to community, state-wide, national, and international awareness of earthquake science and earthquake hazard.



University of Alaska Fairbanks

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor

  • Aug 2017 - Mar 2023

  In addition to teaching classes across the spectrum of geosciences and science communication, I helped develop a game to teach the main concepts of magma crystallization, I was an advocate for diversity/equity/inclusion/accessibility, I served on Faculty Senate and the Graduate Academic Advisory Council, I participated in numerous outreach activities in the community, I reviewed papers and proposals as well as writing my own, and I advised graduate and undergraduate students. I conducted research first in southern Alaska (building the history of accretion of the Talkeetna Arc) and subsequently in hyperspectral imaging of alteration zones in the Alaska Range. Show less

• Assistant Professor

  • Aug 2010 - Aug 2017

  I am a structural geologist who teaches introductory and advanced geology classes at a state university.



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• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Science Writer

  • May 2003 - Mar 2023

  I write about scientific discoveries for the general public. Most recent work has been with Temblor Earth News and Infobase. I write about scientific discoveries for the general public. Most recent work has been with Temblor Earth News and Infobase.



EarthScope National Office

• Director Of Education And Outreach

  • Aug 2015 - Oct 2020

  During the final phase of the EarthScope NSF-funded investigation into the North American continent, I helped facilitate communications amongst scientists and between scientists and the public. This included showcasing EarthScope science at conference booths, culminating in special sessions at AAAS 2019. With my team, we transitioned the quarterly newsletter to online, created a new website of scientist profiles to inspire young scientists, and developed an interactive web map to inform the public of new science in their backyard. Show less



Brown University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Scholar

  • 2008 - 2009

  Used EBSD and thin section analysis to understand deformation mechanisms and regimes of ductilely deformed fault rocks. Used EBSD and thin section analysis to understand deformation mechanisms and regimes of ductilely deformed fault rocks.



California Institute of Technology

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations

• Science Writer

  • Sep 2006 - Jul 2008

  I wrote features, shorts, obituaries, book reviews (you name it) for the monthly research magazine Engineering & Science (now Caltech Magazine). I transitioned to media relations, where I wrote press releases about Caltech science, facilitated on-site visits with media and interviews with scientists, and helped write for and produce the radio segment "The Loh Down on Science." I worked closely with graphic designers and copy editors. I wrote features, shorts, obituaries, book reviews (you name it) for the monthly research magazine Engineering & Science (now Caltech Magazine). I transitioned to media relations, where I wrote press releases about Caltech science, facilitated on-site visits with media and interviews with scientists, and helped write for and produce the radio segment "The Loh Down on Science." I worked closely with graphic designers and copy editors.



Pasadena City College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Jan 2006 - Apr 2008

  I taught Introductory Geology and Oceanography during inter-mester and regular semester intervals. I taught Introductory Geology and Oceanography during inter-mester and regular semester intervals.

• PhD Student

  • 1999 - 2006

UC Santa Cruz
• United States
• Higher Education
• Graduate Student, Science Writing

  • 2002 - 2003