************* Shane Grigsby ************* .. figure:: 12828545_10209023848340295_5190138515747847678_o.jpg :width: 200px :height: 150px :alt: Shane :align: right Currently taking a sabbatical to travel, train, and reflect on my next career steps. It's been 12 years since I took any sort of extended break. In 2007 I took about a year and a half break from my undergraduate studies to figure out what I wanted to do with my education-- it was incredibly helpful, and when I returned to school in 2009 I was a *far* better student. I finished my bachelors in the summer of 2011 (checking off a freshman writing course I needed to graduate), and then went to grad school that same fall. I did a three year Master's at UCSB under Dr. Dar Roberts, working on research thru the summers as you do in graduate school, and then immediately started working for my PhD Advisor `Dr. Waleed Abdalati `__, at CU in the summer of 2014 even as continued to draw a 25% appointment to close up projects back at UCSB. I defended in 2019, and then had two and half weeks before I started working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Colorado School of Mines, with `Matthew Siegfried `__. I secured a position as an Assistant Scientist for the ICESat-2 Project Science office at NASA Goddard (Section 615)-- a fantastic opportunity that took me from Boulder, CO to Washington, DC... with the 2021 three day Martin Luther King weekend being the only time that separated my employment at Mines from the start of my time at NASA. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) recruited me while I was at NASA, offering a position as Research & Development Scientist. I actually initially declined, but NGA made a revised offer that would have me skip a full GS equivalent grade within the Federal Government, and I was curious to see what that world looked like behind the curtain. Since I loved my project at NASA, I elected to keep working on it as long as possible, and took two days off (a weekend) in November of 2021 between ending my role as a NASA contractor and starting as a civil servant within the Intelligence Community. I learned quite a lot at NGA from 2021 to 2023. I ran a program, made policy, and started initiatives within the agency that continue to this day. But ultimately, I decided that I wanted to aim my career in a different direction. The Intelligence Community has incredible resources, but it's also a place that can be a bit sticky and hard to transition out of once you arrive-- there are restrictions on publishing (prepublication review, which makes it difficult to collaborate), on engaging with policy (the Hatch Act), and even what work and projects you can put on a resume. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do when I took my sabbatical from college in 2007, but I knew very well what I wanted to do when I returned in 2009... clearly enough that I followed that path for over decade with excitement and passion. So in January of 2023, I decided to take a risk and do the same thing again-- take some intentional time off to make a new plan for the next decade or two. I still hold a research affiliation (although not a paid appointment) at the `Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) `__, but my research focus is shifting. For the last decade, I worked on understanding the dynamic changes in the polar regions, particularly changes that are happening on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Most of that work used remote sensing and machine learning to better characterize crevasses throughout the ice sheets, with some occasional `polar field work `__. Currently, I'm taking a harder look at Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence more broadly. It's a fast moving field, but I think I can make a real impact given my science background, which is just broad enough to make me look at things slightly differently than the deluge of ML and AI engineers. **Recent posts:** .. postlist:: 3 :list-style: disk :date: %A, %B %d, %Y :sort: Contact Information =================== Always open to interesting opportunities--my resumes and CV are here: Narrative Resume (7 pages) :download:`pdf <./FederalResumeGrigsby.pdf>` Condensed Resume (2 pages) :download:`pdf <./ShaneGrigsby_Resume_2023.pdf>` Condensed Academic CV (5 pages) :download:`pdf <./grigsby_shane_cv.pdf>` Good emails to reach me are `refuge@rocktalus.com `__, and `shane.grigsby@colorado.edu `__. I occasionally post pull requests and code to `github as espg `__. .. toctree:: :includehidden: :maxdepth: 4 Home publications/index remotesensing/index algorithms/index linux/index