Lauren Foster

Affiliation

Neptune and Company, Inc.

Biography

Dr. Foster is a hydrologist with expertise in climate change, integrated modeling, and interdisciplinary collaborations. In her current role, she manages teams of graduate-level scientists to deliver complex technical projects involving a combination of big data, cloud computing, and numerical modeling. During her career, Dr. Foster has worked with interdisciplinary teams to tackle questions at the interface of traditional expertise, including climate scientists, historians, economists, and regulators. Some of her primary research areas include climate impacts to Colorado River headwater streamflow; the fate, transport, and treatment of deep groundwater plumes; and developing workflows for effective calibration of physically-based models in high-dimensional parameter space.