WORK EXPERIENCE

• Expert Remote Sensing Program Manager, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)

• Research Scientist, SETI Institute 2014-6/2020

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PAST WORK EXPERIENCE

• Chief Science Officer, AstroReality, 3/2018-6/2020

• Founder/CEO, Made of Mars, 10/2016-6/2020

• Adjunct Assistant Research Professor, Louisiana State University, 2014-6/2020

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Louisiana State University, 2013 - 2014

• Brown University Graduate Research Fellow, 2007-2012

• CRISM Team Science Collaborator, 2007 - 2012

• MER PANCAM Calibration Crew and Programmer, ​2003 - 2007

• New York Space Grant Intern, NASA Marshall, Huntsville, AL, Summer 2006, 2007 

• Kopernik Observatory Science Instructor, Vestal, NY, 1999-2004  

EXPERIENCE

• NASA PSTAR BRAILLE Project Science Collaborator, Summer 2018

• Science Advisor for Mars2030 VR Game

• Organized Iceland NASA PSTAR Sinter Study Field Expedition, Summer 2015/6

• Mojave Volatile Prospector (MVP) Camera Lead, 2014

• SSERVI-FINESSE Impact Cratering Deployment, West Clearwater Lake, Quebec, Canada 2014

• SSERVI-FINESSE Volcanic Deployment, Craters of the Moon NM, 2014

• Karst Mapping, Chongqing/Hubei Provence, China, Fall 2012, Spring 2015

• Hyperspectral Mapping Field Test, Rio Tinto, Spain, Summer 2011

• NSF Antarctic Field Season, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Fall 2010

• NASA Planetary Volcanology Field Workshop, Hawaii, July 2010

• NASA Planetary Science Summer School, JPL, Neptune Flagship Mission, July 2009

• NASA Spaceward Bound MRDS Crew 53, Utah, December 2006

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Habitable World Panel, Balboa High School, SF, CA. May 1st, 2019

• Guest Lecturer Cal. College of Art, Immersive Film and Media, VR and Beyond. Fall 2018

• Guest Lecturer Geol 1001, LSU April 30th, 2013

• Co-Instructor Geol 7972 LSU Spring 2013

• Brown University CareerLAB Graduate Student Advise Panel Feb. 2012

• Teaching Assistant, GE133, Remote Sensing of the Environment,
  Brown University, 2011.

• Sherdian Center Certificate II: Classroom Tools Seminar,  2009-2010.

• Teaching Assistant, GE141, Mineralogy, Brown University, 2009.

• Teaching Assistant, GE010, Face of the Earth, Brown University, 2009.

• Sheridan Center Certificate I: Introduction to Reflective Teaching Practice, 2009

• Science Instructor, Kopernik Observatory, Vestal, NY, 2001-2004

• Guest Lecturer Geol 1001, LSU 4/30/13

• Co-Instructor Geol 7972 LSU Spring 2013

INVITED TALKS

• NASA SSERVI Planetary Analogs Working Group, Mars in Iceland. April 2020

• Silicon Valley Comic Con Mars Panel & Talk, San Jose, August 2019

• Microsoft Garage, Sunnyvale, CA July 2019

• San Jose Astronomical Association, San Jose, CA, June 2019

• Khan Academy, Mountain View, CA, November 2018

• East Bay Astronomical Society, Oakland, CA, November 2018

• NASA Mars2020 4th Landing Site Workshop, Glendale, CA, October 2018

• University of California, Santa Cruz, September 2018

• California Academy of Sciences, Astronomy Lecture, September 2018

• SETI Institute, AR/VR in Space Science, Menlo Park, CA, July 2018

• AstroReality, Earth Kickstarter Video, June 2018

• NASA Mars2020 3rd Landing Site Workshop, Pasadena, CA 2017

• China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, May 2015

• SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA 2015

• LSU Wilbert Lecture, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, September 2014

• Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, January 2014

• LSU Astronomy Department, Baton Rouge, LA, October 2013

• SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, June 2013

• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2013

• China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, October 2012

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, May 2012

• NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA, December 2011