ESWN Member Spotlights
Stephanie Shaw
Stephanie Shaw is a Principal Technical Leader at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI; www.epri.com) where she is responsible for the strategic research direction of air quality monitoring and environmental impacts of emerging energy technologies. Her career path has unexpectedly led her to a role that fits the range of topics that fascinated her when…
Stephanie Shaw
Stephanie Shaw is a Principal Technical Leader at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI; www.epri.com) where she is responsible for the strategic research direction of air quality monitoring and environmental impacts of emerging energy technologies. Her career path has unexpectedly led her to a role that fits the range of topics that fascinated her when…
Read MoreYackar Mauzole
Yackar Mauzole is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in satellite oceanography, at JPL/Caltech, a NASA laboratory located in the Los Angeles area. Now in her second year, she obtained her PhD in Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island in 2017. Her research focuses on fronts at the sea surface, which are the oceanic…
Read MoreEmily Cooperdock
Dr. Emily H. G. Cooperdock is an Earth Scientist who uses geochemistry and thermochronology to quantify the timing and rates of tectonic processes, with a special interest in the interplay between tectonic and geochemical cycles. Her PhD work focused on method development for thermochronology, which opened up new research avenues into processes that were historically…
Read MoreErika Amir-Lin
Erika Amir-Lin is a geologist with 15 years of varied workforce experience in the earth sciences. She is a licensed professional geologist in the state of New Hampshire, and currently works as a hydrogeologist at AECOM in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. In her current position she works with municipal clients in Massachusetts and New Hampshire; assisting them…
Read MoreDelia Santiago-Materese
Dr. Delia Santiago-Materese is a planetary scientist at NASA. She began her career at NASA Ames Research Center soon after undergraduate, and her work at NASA has included supporting shuttle payloads, developing partnerships and collaborations with organizations outside of NASA, conducting planetary science research, and as of late, supporting research at the programmatic level. Delia…
Read MoreDaphne LaDue
Dr. Daphne LaDue is a senior scientist at the University of Oklahoma’s Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms. Her background is very quantitative. She first pursued a B.A. in Physics from a small liberal arts college in Indiana with the goal of being a high school physics teacher. She had taken physics during her…
Read MoreDieuwertje (DJ) Kast
Dieuwertje Kast is the STEM Programs Manager for the University of Southern California’s (USC) Joint Educational Project. She has provided STEM instruction to over 23,000 underrepresented minority students, 600 educators, 20 school principals, and countless community members. She coordinates supplemental science lessons for K-5 across a gamut of schools through the Wonderkids and Young Scientists…
Read MoreHelen Amanda Fricker
Professor Helen Fricker is a glaciologist studying ice loss processes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet using satellite data. She grew up in the UK, and obtained her undergraduate degree at University College London (Maths and Physics). Inspired by Chris Rapley (CBE) and Seymour Laxon at UCL, Dr. Fricker become interested Antarctic science and satellite remote…
Read MoreBeth Johnson
Dr. Beth A. Johnson is a professor of Geology at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley in Menasha, WI. She is a Quaternary Geologist interested in the glacial history and landforms of the Upper Midwest. She earned her Ph.D. at Northern Illinois University. Her doctoral dissertation was about the extent of slackwater sediments in the Savanna…
Read MoreDr. Aish Raman
Aish Raman, originally from India, is a Senior Research Scientist working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Global Modeling Assimilation Office (GSFC/GMAO) on aerosol modeling and analysis, as a contractor with Science Systems and Applications, Inc. At GSFC, her research focuses on aerosol modeling and analysis. She graduated from University of Arizona with a Ph.D…
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