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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Christa Peters-Lidard

Christa Peters-Lidard

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Dr. Christa D. Peters-Lidard is the Director of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at the Goddard Space Flight Center, where she has served in a variety of research and leadership roles since 2001. Her research interests include land-atmosphere interactions, soil moisture measurement and modeling, and the application of high-performance computing and communications technologies in Earth system modeling. 


She is a fellow of AMS, AGU, and was recently elected to NAE. Her Ph.D. is from Princeton University, and she holds a B.S. in Geophysics from Virginia Tech.

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