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Jeannie currently holds several positions including: Visiting Scientist in the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley CyMobility Lab Disaster Management, NASA Ames Research Campus, Moffett Field, CA; Director of Programs at Airship Earth at the NASA Ames Research Campus, Moffett Field, CA; and Senior Biologist at the civil engineering firm, URS Corporation in Oakland CA.

Her aim is to create highly-adopted technology and practices through facilitating research and development at the intersection of technical and field disciplines. Her research in biological sciences inspires her highly successful unique approach to technological problems. Her work ranges from guiding the biology research vision for a 4-year NSF grant (BioACT) to develop software for field biology (Human Computer Interaction Group, InfoLab at the Stanford Computer Science Department), to facilitating cost-effective civil engineering design of multi-million dollar infrastructure projects.

She has won interface design awards in fields ranging from social technology for disaster response (Random Hacks of Kindness) to biological monitoring (IEEE-ACM Vannevar Bush Best Student Paper), and has co-authored 6 peer-reviewed papers with leaders in the computer science field. She taught Animal Behavior an upper division college-level biology course at California State University East Bay.in 2008.

Jeannie received her PhD in Biological Sciences at Stanford University on an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant, in Ward Watt's lab. There she elucidated evolutionary and adaptive responses to frequencies of temperature change embedded in rising average global temperatures due to climate change. Before, she completed an undergraduate degree in biology in three years (Illinois Wesleyan University, graduating cum laude), while attending a year at Oxford University (Pemberton College), completing graduate-level courses in marine biology at Friday Harbor Laboratory University of Washington University, and spending a fourth year in electrical engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Jeannie grew up in Switzerland and the Midwest, and is a violinist.

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Photo by Hector.

Awards

Vannevar Bush Award

Congressional Nuggets 

Field Experience

Her experience comes from over 10 years of working at field stations including the following, ordered by duration of time at a station):

• Friday Harbor Laboratories,University of Washington (Friday Harbor, Washington, USA) (classes only)
  
• Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (Gothic, Colorado, USA)
• Hopkins Marine Station Stanford University (Pacific Grove, California, USA)
• Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University (Stanford, California, USA)
• Lizard Island Research Station, Australia Museum (Great Barrier Reef, Australia)
• Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon (Coos Bay, Oregon, USA)
• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (Fort Pierce, Florida, USA)