Kealie is a water, climate, and data enthusiast with over a decade of experience in river systems, sediment transport, hydrology, climate change impacts, and nature-based restoration and resilience. She has a background collecting and using all kinds of environmental data including site-specific field observations, remote sensing, climate models, and other interdisciplinary datasets.

Kealie strives to push technologic boundaries, adopting new scientific and computational tools to climate change and earth observation. She loves digging into large, complex, and messy data to discover and understand the many feedbacks between communities of people and the environment. She believes climate data is a public resource and should be used for the benefit of society at large.

When not in the office, Kealie enjoys singing in choir, fiber arts, rock climbing, and cooking for a crowd. She also enjoys exploring new hobbies with her two young kids as they develop; current hits include legos, trains, chopping fruit, and peekaboo.