• Executive Team Member: 2020-2023

Caroline is a Ph.D. Candidate at Columbia University in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Caroline is interested in using satellite data, big datasets, and statistical modeling to understand natural hazards in the context of modern climate. Under the mentorship of her advisor Dr. Park Williams, she is currently investigating how climate affects wildfires in the western United States. Between college graduation and her Ph.D., she was a project coordinator at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ Science Systems and Applications, Inc. in Greenbelt, MD, where she launched and managed the NASA citizen science project Landslide Reporter.

Caroline received her Bachelor’s degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University. After internships with the Space Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; and the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, Caroline was selected as a member of the inaugural class of Brooke Owens Fellows. As a Brookie, Caroline worked at Bryce Space and Technology, conducting and presenting research on SmallSat market trends, which was published as Smallsats by the Numbers 2018. She also assisted the Business Development team with proposals, research, and the 2017 Start-Up Space report. Caroline has served in many different mentorship, outreach, editor, and design roles as an alumna of the Fellowship – including creating the program’s logo in 2017.