Family:

I was born and raised in southern California. My family moved to San Diego in 1970 (in the photo, I am the middle girl) when my father took a job at the Deep Sea Drilling Project (see the dedication for DSDP Volume 60). I attended college back east (receiving the rare A.B. degree in engineering), and then returned to San Diego for graduate school. I moved to Colorado in 1990, which is where I met my husband George Rosborough. Our son Sean was born in 1999; he has since changed his name to Radon (yes, Element 86). Radon is now a devoted computer programmer. GPS site rn86 is named in his honor.

Education:

Harvard University
A.B. Engineering Sciences, 1985

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
Ph.D. Geophysics, 1990

Work Experience:

Professor, 2004-present
Associate Professor 1997-2004; Assistant Professor, 1990-1997

Dept. Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Program in Environmental Engineering

Program in Geophysics

University of Colorado

150th Anniversary Visiting Professor, Summer 2011
Chalmers University of Technology

Visiting Associate Professor, Fall 1998-Spring 1999
Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

Visiting Scientist, Spring/Summer 1998

U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

Visiting Scientist, Fall 1993

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Visiting Scientist, Spring 1993

U.S. Geological Survey

Member of the Technical Staff, 1988-1990
Earth Orbiter Systems Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Community Service:

Chair, Geodesy Program, Fall 2000 AGU.

Chair, International Earth Rotation Service Committee on the ITRF Datum, 1999-2003.

Member, NASA ESSAAC: Technology Subcommittee, 2003-2006.

Editor, Geophysical Research Letters, AGU, 2002-2004.

Member, Board of Directors, UNAVCO, 2004-2006.

Member, NRC Committee, Precise Geodetic Infrastructure: National Requirements for a Shared Resource, 2008-2010 (pdf).

Member, NRC Committee, New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences at NSF, 2010-2011.

EarthScope Speaker, 2012-2013.

Outreach:

Middle School Presentations

My 15 minutes (well, actually 60 seconds) of fame

Honors:

2005 AGU Geodesy Section Award (pdf)

2005 CU Faculty Fellow

2006 JSPS Award, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo

2007 AGU Bowie Lecture (ppt) (webcast)

2011 Dean`s Faculty Fellowship

2011 150th Anniversary Visiting Professor, Chalmers University of Technology

2011 AGU Fellow, photos

Miscellaneous:

Mt Everest; Greenland Ice Sheet study

Geotimes article on GPS Seismology, July 2004; Guerrero, November 2007.

Inside GNSS, Satellite Repeat Times, August 2006.

NewScientist, Soil Moisture, June 14, 2008.

NASA Earth Science Article, July 2008.

Plate Boundary Observatory Science Highlight, April 2009.

GPS World Fluff, May 2009; It's Not All Bad, October 2009.

Ars Technica, Exploiting the noise, January 2009.

wired.com, Science NOW, October 2009.

UNAVCO: Munson Farms; Niwot Ridge.

EarthScope Highlight, Fall 2010.

Snow Sensing (UCAR), Spring 2011.

Ethan Gutmann is famous in Russia: http://lenta.ru/news/2012/02/14/snowsize/