Emily Cobabe-Ammann
Emily Cobabe-Ammann is a planetary scientist and an expert strategist in science and education initiatives. She is the director of community programs at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
Education
CoBabe-Ammann did her undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and went on to get her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University in 1991. She did postdoc work at the University of Bristol in England, the University of North Carolina, and Indiana University.
Career
After her postdoctoral positions, CoBabe-Ammann spent five years at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a member of the faculty in the geosciences department. She then joined the science and math team at Mid-Continent Research on Education and Learning (McREL), then she began consulting work with science education centers, including the Science Education Center at the Medical Center of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. From 2003 to 2009, she was the head of communications and outreach at the University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics where she helped build the third largest education and public outreach program, outside of NASA centers. Between 2009-2013, she was the executive director of Emily A. CoBabe & Associates, Inc., a science education planning, management, and research company located in Boulder, Colorado. Since April 2013, she has been the director of community programs at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).