Dr. Sandra B. Email & Phone Number

Annapolis, Md, Us

Lanham, Md, Us

Lanham, Md, Us

Founder and lead of SSAI’s the BLOssOming Mindfulness Support (BLOOMS) group. A safe, inclusive, open space for employees to gather and practice mindfulness exercises designed to calm and rejuvenate the body and mind, meeting once a week consistently for over 2.5 years

Lanham, Md, Us

Database administrator, scientific programmer and analyst on contract to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS), NASA's archive of international space geodesy data. CDDIS archives and distributes free daily, hourly, highrate, real-time Global Naviagion Satellite System (GNSS), Satellite and Lunar Laser Ranging (SLR and LLR), Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS), and Very Long Baseline Interfermetry (VLBI) data and products globally.Database administrator for CDDIS using MariaDB on multi-master Galera Cluster setup; user account creation and maintenance with systems security measures; manage database and table schema design to optimize query and system performance; monitor system performanceManage millions+ CDDIS archive, ingest, and distribution records submitted daily to the NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Metric System (EMS) used as inventory data and products offered by CDDIS, and to generate metrics and statisics of data and product types, number of files, etc. in demand by the CDDIS distributed active archive center (DAAC)Manage over 400 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) real-time data, and 37 product, streams for CDDIS, one of three global data centers, in support of the International GNSS Service Real-Time Service (IGS RTS)Develop Python routines and collaborate daily with CDDIS Operations and System Administrators team to improve efficiency and overall communication among team

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Completed consulting work for Branch8, Beijing based e-commerce marketplace company designed to service international sellers list and manage products and orders across all markets on one websiteDeveloped a suite of Python scripts for data exportation from MongoDB, including data cleansing, visualization, and tabulationApplied logistic regression, random forest algorithms, and k-fold cross validation to rank seller profile features and predict customer retention/churn

Baltimore, Md, Us

Generated modeling grids of over 10,000 two-dimensional, Monte Carlo radiative transfer models spanning infrared wavelengths, each containing 1000s of water vapor emission lines, to study the role of water in planet formation in the inner-disk regions surrounding young, Sun-like starsDeveloped and coded all data visualization, tabulation, and analysis tools, including a widget to complement molecular spectroscopy techniquesAlgorithm development in IDL and Python, in UNIX /Linux environments for integrated spectral line flux and error measurements, chi-square minimization, and confidence interval testing,Presented scientific results at national and international conferences

Washington, Dc, Us

Morphologies of 317 intermediate-redshifted, star-forming galaxies imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope were cataloguedTwo-dimensional galaxy modeling with GALFIT was conducted over all light profiles in the image catalog

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Mid-infrared photometric measures of 6,000+ stars with infrared excess emission were obtained from space telescope images containing over 300,000 data collections events compiled into a catalog to be released to the astronomical community

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Tested the efficiency and percent biomass recovery of a deep sea extremophile sampler, the Hy- drothermal Vent Bio-Sampler (HVB), for the NASA Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group.Optimized a DNA extraction protocol with in situ samples obtained from field testsPrepared the HVB robot for deployment at the Mars Meridiani Planum analog site - Rio Tinto,SpainResults presented and published at the Astrobiology Science Conference -Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond

Probed competing theories of mass outflow in broad-absorption line quasars using Spitzer Space Telescope observations to determine if energetic outflows are a consequence of system orientation or evolutionary stage.Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Astronomy, 2008-2009Recipient of the Chambliss Undergraduate Student Achievement Award for this work,214th AAS Meeting, Pasadena, CA 2009NASA Undergraduate Research Fellowship recipient, 2009Nominated as NASA International Year of Astronomy Nebraska Student Ambassador, 2009

Our team was responsible for the discovery of over 15 new subspecies of lemur.Extraction of DNA from blood, tissue, and orchids for genotyping and cycle sequencing reactions to carry out microsatellite fragment analysis, population and systematic studies of endangered captive and wild speciesOperation of ABI 377 and 3100 for genotyping and sequence analysisSuccessfully designed primers using Mac Vector and OligoDeveloped successful DNA microsatellite sequences through laboratory enrichment protocolManaged the ∼ $1,000,000 Conservation Genetics department laboratory and field budgetResponsible for all shipping, receiving, and ordering of laboratory, field and marker developmentsuppliesMentored and provided laboratory training for college students from Madagascar, China,Netherlands, Canada, and USADatabase organization and management: primer, DNA, blood, tissue, and Genome ResourceBankAssisted in pit tagging, blood and tissue collection, animal measurements, and data keeping from Indri Indri and Sanzinia madagascariensis at Analamazoatra, Andasibe National Park, MadagascarCollection of blood and tissue samples from chameleon and sportive lemur species including Eulemur collaris; member of the expedition team that discovered the new lemur subspecies, Lepilemur microdon, in Kalambatritra, MadagascarTeaching Assistant for Molecular Genetics workshop,Universite d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Spring 2004

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Astrophysics

Master Of Science (Ms), Physics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Physics