Colin Komar

"I always say that the most valuable skill I gained in graduate school is that I 'learned how to learn.' You may not always know the answer or how to accomplish a given task. So the skills I gained were how to formulate the currently unknown task into an answerable question and then be able to find the resources, papers, techniques, and/or experts that would best be able to assist in obtaining that answer. (Oh, and the wisdom to distinguish a credible source from the noise.)"

Dr. Colin Komar is an analyst within the US Department of Defense performing data analysis and developing tools for analyzing novel datasets. Colin previously worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center performing large-scale supercomputer simulations of the near-Earth space radiation environment. Colin also worked part-time as a Space Weather forecaster measuring and reporting interplanetary conditions to NASA's Space Radiation Analysis Group so they could alert NASA astronauts and missions of developing environmental hazards. Colin has been awarded early career scientist awards by the American Geophysical Union and the Vincenzo Ferraro Association.