Ashley joined the JEDI infrastructure team at the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation as a software engineer in February 2023. Her primary focus on the team is setting up and maintaining real-team systems and research and development systems in the cloud and on HPCs. She is excited to continue to utilize her background in atmospheric and computer science together! 

In 2017, Ashley graduated from Purdue University with a BS in Atmospheric Science. She participated in undergraduate research spanning from Arctic sea ice to tornado climatology.  After graduation, she continued on the research track but under the guidance of Professor Matthew Huber working with paleoclimate models and using NCAR’s Community Earth System Model (CESM). She graduated with her Master’s in Atmospheric Science in 2019. That year, Ashley attended a CESM tutorial in Boulder and was thrilled with the idea of eventually working in the beautiful foothills! Following graduation she worked as a software engineer at the National Center for Environmental Prediction’s (NCEP) Central Operations (NCO) in Maryland. Her position on NCO Integrated Dissemination Program’s Onboarding team allowed her to work on a variety of water and weather focused applications. With COVID forcing remote work, Ashley and her now husband moved across the country to Denver for the mountain adventures. This opened the door for her to pursue a career at UCAR. 

Ashley enjoys learning and participating in many different action sports such as skiing, snowboarding, trail running, wakeboarding, sailing, kiteboarding, and surfing. She loves playing competitive volleyball, especially grass volleyball in the summer months. Unfortunately injuries have kept her out of commision for sports these recent years, but she enjoys a variety of artistic hobbies (weaving, photography, painting, drawing), going to breweries, reading, and fostering adorable dogs from a local rescue organization.