Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

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I am a female Associate Professor at a U.S. academic institution for higher education. I also maintain an affiliate position with a research institute in France and spend at least a month of every year there for collaborative research. I am a co-principal investigator for a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Research Coordination Network (RCN) focused on revising the pedagogy of reactive transport modeling.

Volunteer experience that relates to this position: 

Chair, AGU Hydrology Section Groundwater Technical Committee (2021 - present); Member, AGU Hydrology Section Groundwater Technical Committee (2016 – present); Associate Editor, Water Resources Research (2017 – present); Workshop Organizer: NSF-RCN “Teaching Reactive Transport” Goldschmidt Conference (2021); Member: NSF Geochemical Data Workshop (2020); Session Organizer, AGU Fall Meeting (2017 - present); Goldschmidt Conference (2015, 2020); Computational Methods in Water Resources (2018); Instructor, multiple short-courses on reactive transport modeling with CrunchFlow and The Geochemists Workbench

As one of the elected leaders of your section, how will you partner with your president and president-elect to communicate with and engage your members to help implement AGU’s strategic plan including its mission and vision?

One of the most rewarding aspects of my career thus far has been the effort to champion my students and early career colleagues as they search for and begin their professional occupations. I am motivated to serve as section secretary because I see this as an opportunity to expand this effort to the larger membership of our Hydrology section community. I think this is the right time to refine and reimagine the ways in which we promote our newest members, thanks largely to the 2020 strategic plan which is now directing the future of AGU. As we work toward these goals, it will be necessary to leverage the platform provided by the AGU Fall Meeting, which is one of the largest and most influential of its kind in the world. In this sense, the primary role section secretaries serve in organizing the Fall Meeting is also a unique and important means to promote our next generation, facilitate exchange of a wider variety of perspectives and implement new means of supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion. I find this highly compelling, and I envision working closely with the section president and president-elect to create easier and more frequent avenues for our members to engage with leadership throughout the process of planning and attending the Fall Meeting, recognizing achievements, and offering opportunities to share and learn from one another.

Section affiliations:

Biogeosciences; Earth and Planetary Surface Processes; Hydrology; Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology