[2] Barth was a 1967 graduate of Mason County Central High School in Scottville, Michigan.
[3] Meanwhile, she had become a co-op student at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and after graduation she became a radiation and hardness assurance engineer there.
[2] She was president of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society for the 2013–2014 term, before retiring in 2014.
In her retirement, she has worked on the advisory board for aerospace company Miller Engineering and Research (MERC).
[1] She was the 2022 recipient of the Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society.