Natasha Stavros
Founder of WKID Solutions
Developer of WKID Innovation
Research Faculty at University of Colorado Boulder
Overview
Date Last Updated
3 May 2023
Location
Boulder, Co
Social Media
Date Last Updated
Available for Consulting and Speaking Engagements
About
Dr. Natasha Stavros developed the WKID Innovation framework to generalize processes for innovation using leadership and NASA system engineering, thereby forming the basis of WKID Solutions. Dr. Stavros developed this framework while working as a Science System Engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Natasha Stavros specializes in innovation and change management, which includes:
- technology transfer
- facilitating collaborations across disciplines
- assessing market needs
- project system engineering to fill gaps between information demand and data supply
- program development and management
Domain expertise include:
- Fire Ecology
- Urban Ecology
- Carbon Cycle
- Biodiversity
- Data Science
- Information Technologies
Notable Awards
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Charles Elachi Early Career Achievement Award
- NASA Group Achievement Award for the SMAP Science and Cal/Val Team
- NASA Group Achievement Award for the TIMED SEE instrument suite
Experience
Mission Area Lead
Civil Space Earth Sciences
Ball Aerospace
May 2023 - Present
Skills
Business strategy and development for Civil Space Earth Sciences primarily liaising with NASA and USGS
Stakeholder engagement and liaison
Director of Earth Lab Analytics Hub
CU Boulder CIRES - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science
Dec 2020 - April 2023
Skills
Develop and contribute to a vision to maintain Earth Lab’s Analytics Hub as a national leader in the areas of remote sensing data integration, machine learning, and open reproducible science
Intellectual lead for Earth Lab’s technical capabilities in analytics, maintaining and growing Earth Lab’s reputation through active participation in the data analytics research
Primary technical liaison with Earth Lab partners, including CU faculty and researchers, federal and state agencies, industry partners, etc
Support and build the Analytics Hub including managing key efforts, developing and tracking evaluation metrics, and facilitating collaboration between the Analytics Hub, Earth Lab science teams, and the Earth Analytics Education Program
Mentor Earth Lab postdocs, research scientists, and student interns
Director of ESIIL Analytics and Cyberinfrastructure
CU Boulder CIRES - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science
Aug 2022 - April 2023
Skills
Develop and contribute to a vision to serve the Nation’s biological sciences through analytics and cyberinfrastructure at the Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab (ESIIL), a $20M National Science Foundation funded data synthesis center
Intellectual co-lead for ESIIL technical capabilities in analytics and cyberinfrastructure in collaboration with CyVerse
Technical liaison with ESIIL data and cyberinfrastructure partnerships
Manage key efforts including developing and tracking evaluation metrics
Mentor ESIIL postdocs, research scientists, and student interns
Science and Applications System Engineer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
May 2016 - Feb 2021
Skills
Project/Product Delivery Manager and System Engineer of Data Systems (architecture, data, tools and services)
NISAR Deputy Program Applications Co-Lead developing and coordinating a program to infuse NISAR data into data workflows by industry, academia, and governments
NASA mission formulation distills complex systems science into engineering requirements
Natural Resources decision support information product development from NASA big data
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
October 2013-April 2016
Duties
Soil Moisture Active Passive calibration and validation of the Level 4 Carbon product
ECOSTRESS data product Level 2-4 calibration and validation
Wildfire Applications information product development
Education
University of Washington
2010-2013
PhD Quantitative Fire Ecology
Dissertation: Very large wildfires in the western contiguous United States: probabilistic models for historical and future conditions
University of Edinburgh
2008-2009
MS Environmental Sustainability
Thesis: Assessment for implementing 3-PGN as a measuring tool for coniferous forest sustainability at the national level: The Wales case study
University of Colorado, Boulder
2005-2008