Danielle graduated from A&M in 2000 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. She was a President’s Endowed Scholar, received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics “Spirit of Apollo” Award, and was a recipient of the Craig C. Brown Outstanding Senior Engineering Award in 1999. Danielle is currently starting her fourth year of the Ph.D. program in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley, Danielle received the NSF Graduate Fellowship (2005-2010), the Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center Graduate Grant in 2008, and the UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award in 2009. She received the National Park Service George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship in 2010 and the Energy and Resources Group Spherical Cow Award in 2011. Her primary area of study is the interactions of vegetation and climate for which she is conducting research in Sequoia National Park on conifer tree seedlings and their microclimate. She is a student in the Berkeley Center for New Media Designated Emphasis program, where she is investigating new ways to communicate natural history and science. Danielle and her husband live in Richmond, California. She stated that she loved her time at A&M. It not only gave her a practical education, but a great group of friends and experiences. The sense of community at different levels stands out in her memory: her close group of friends, the mechanical engineering students, the campus-wide community that is so evident at Silver Taps, midnight yell, the football games, and the extended Aggie network that she has experienced once leaving College Station via Muster gatherings.