Dr. E. Natasha Stavros is a Applied Science System Engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. She specializes in end-to-end data and information system engineering, which includes facilitating collaborations among interdisciplinary researchers and decision makers (managers & policy), mapping inter-organizational information systems, assessing market needs, and architecting and managing projects/tasks to fill gaps between information demand and data supply. She developed these skills as a fire and terrestrial ecosystem ecologist, but applies them in other complex systems, with particular emphasis on NASA flight projects, technology and data systems. She received a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder where her career with NASA began at the Laboratory of Atmosphere and Space Physics (LASP) doing mission operations and data analysis for data product calibration. She received a M.S. in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland specializing in remote observation integration into a mechanistic model for forest management, and a Ph.D. in Forest and Fire Ecology from the University of Washington specializing in linking climate, fire ecology, and air quality degradation.