About me
Amy is the Assistant Chief Data Officer (ACDO) for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). In this position, she is working to guide and support OAR’s mission by ensuring proper data stewardship and dissemination. Building the foundation for acquisition, delivery, and archival of quality environmental data is at the heart of the NOAA mission. Amy serves as a policy and planning authority and provides technical and strategic guidance to executive leadership.
Amy came to NOAA in June of 2023 from the Department of Energy (DOE). There she worked in Nuclear Material Control and Accountability and tracked location and calculated radioactive decay for all of the DOE radioactive sealed sources. Amy was a DOE ambassador for the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency and a member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management organization. She was also the Assistant Deputy for the DOE COVID-19 tracking efforts for 56 DOE locations around the US. Additionally, she worked with the Former Worker Medical Screening Program to track and analyze annual screenings for potential adverse health outcomes related to exposures to such conditions as radiation, beryllium, lasers, silica and others. Amy was a science writer and technical editor for the Office of Environmental, Health, Safety and Security and worked on congressional reports and research publications.
Prior to DOE, Amy was active duty in the US Navy and then a contractor working on surface and aerial drones. She managed the data reports for US Navy training operations. It was during this time when she completed her degree in applied mathematics, and worked in educational outreach for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Amy has also worked with Washington University in St. Louis, Tysons Research Center on deer herd movement and parasitic transmissions. She also studied in Costa Rica at Universidad E.A.R.T.H. (Escuela de Agricultura de la Región Tropical Húmeda), a private, non-profit university for sustainable agriculture developed by the United States Agency for International Development and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
