Dr. Elsworth is an interdisciplinary climate and ocean scientist in the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA’s center for understanding our changing climate using advanced Earth system modeling tools. Her research focuses on the use of data-assimilative Earth system models to better constrain the impact of climate change on the global carbon cycle. She contributes to multiple NASA science teams including the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center and the Carbon Monitoring System.
She earned her PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022 where she lead research on the impacts of climate change and variability on ocean carbon, biogeochemistry, and ecology. In 2014, she received her MS from McGill University where she explored the role of enhanced weathering on paleoclimate tipping points using a combination of paleoclimate datasets and climate model simulations.
Her professional experience includes three years as a Research Geoscientist at ExxonMobil's Research and Engineering Company where she collaborated on innovative technologies in the energy industry, including low carbon solutions and sustainable biofuels. She is also an experienced science communicator as the former Director of the Citizen Science Volunteer Network for the NSF-funded Marcellus Matters initiative.