NOAA Research Scientist Profiles

In honor of Women's History Month, NOAA scientists from across the country are taking readers inside what a typical day in their life looks like. 

Dr. Krisa Arzayus is the deputy director of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office in the National Ocean Service.

Dr. Leticia Barbero is a chemical oceanographer at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida.

Dr. Jamese Sims is a senior physical scientist at the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research, where she supports inter-agency committees and working groups to coordinate meteorological services across the Federal Weather Enterprise.

For more than 10 years, Dr. Natasha White was an environmental scientist with NOAA’s National Ocean Service/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science.

Dr. Barbara Stunder is a meteorologist at the Air Resources Laboratory in College Park, Maryland. 

Dr. Fong (Fantine) Ngan works for NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory in College Park, Maryland.

Janet Nye is an associate professor at Stony Brook University in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, where she focuses on fisheries ecology. 

Dr. April Croxton is an analyst with NOAA's Policy, Planning and Evaluation (PPE) office, but is currently on detail in Formulation and Congressional Analysis (FCA).   

Dr. Colette Heald is a professor at MIT in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is the head of the Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition Modeling Group.

Dr. Missy Petty works for NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in the Global Systems Division (GSD), and is currently performing GSD deputy director duties.