Christa Peters-Lidard

Christa Peters-Lidard is an American hydrologist known for her work on integrating land surface modeling and data assimilation, particularly with remotely sensed measurements of precipitation.

[1] As an undergraduate at Virginia Tech she worked on a project on aquifers and groundwater flow at the United States Geological Survey and at that point she realized that she wanted to be an earth scientist at National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA).

[2] In 2015, Peters-Lidard became the Deputy Director for Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics works in the Earth Sciences Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

[10] Peters-Lidard has had one Ph.D student, Feifei Pan, who estimated the amount of water in soils based on rainfall levels,[11][12][13] and examined algorithms used to characterize variability in a region's topography.

[14] Peters-Lidard led the team that built a high performance computing cluster that became NASA's Land Information System software (LIS).