Faces of GPM: Dalia Kirschbaum

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2. 0:08Dalia: My name is Dalia Kirschbaum, I'm a researcher in the Hydrology Lab
3. 0:12at Goddard Space Flight Center and my focus is landslide modeling.
4. 0:16I'm also the GPM applications scientist, meaning that I help to
5. 0:24communicate the science and the data that we get from the GPM mission to the public and end users.
6. 0:32I grew up in Minnesota, we have flooding, we have drought,
7. 0:36there are no landslides, except in the northern areas of Minnesota and very small ones at that. So looking at earthquakes
8. 0:44or hurricanes was such a crazy phenomena, and I loved the idea that nature was just so powerful, and
9. 0:53that we could actually use data from above the Earth to figure out what
10. 0:57is happening on the surface and in the atmosphere.
11. 1:01So I was always very
12. 1:05interested in math, and so all through school I kind of thought I was going to be either a math
13. 1:09major or do something with math. And then freshman year of college actually I took a very
14. 1:13interesting class on different environmental issues and I found that I
15. 1:17was really fascinated with natural disasters, but what I realized was that
16. 1:21you can actually apply math and you can apply science to real-world topics
17. 1:25and you can use the information that you get or the
18. 1:29results from your models to really help people and try to mitigate against these hazards. So I decided to go to
19. 1:37graduate school with a focus on applying remotely sensed or satellite data to evaluate hazards, all different types of
20. 1:45natural disasters. And in my dissertation I focused in
21. 1:49landslides because I felt that it was a very underrepresented hazard in the grand scheme
22. 1:53of natural disaster research. I really am looking in quite global scales and I'm trying to figure out how landslides are occurring
23. 2:01and modeling the activity, from everything from the local, one hillslope scale to the regional level, like Central America
24. 2:09to then the global scale. Most of my studies were done in the computer lab or looking at different
25. 2:17models, but I did take some very interesting field trips during graduate school
26. 2:21and even during undergrad, to look at different rock formations to look at landslide scars, and what you realize
27. 2:29is how important it is to really understand the total
28. 2:33environment in order to really get a sense of what is causing these hazards.
29. 2:37I think the most important thing is to continue learning and to continue pushing what you think is interesting
30. 2:46and find a way to get yourself there.
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