Kate Abshire
Hydrologist
National Weather Service, Analyze, Forecast, and Support Office
EPP/MSI participation
- Graduate Sciences Program (2010)
Education
- M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University supported by the Graduate Sciences Program.
- B.S. Environmental Sciences from University of Virginia
I was fortunate to have excellent mentors who enabled me to closely link my summer research work through the Graduate Sciences Program with my thesis, which meant that when I joined the NWS as a full-time employee, I was immediately able to use experience I gained as a graduate student ... to advance the science of hydrologic forecasting.