Heather Bedle received a B.S. (1999) in physics from Wake Forest University and then worked as a systems and electrical engineer in the defense industry for Raytheon and Northrup Grumman. She later received an M.S. (2005) and a Ph.D. (2008) in geophysics from Northwestern University. After nine years of working with Chevron, she moved to academia to pursue her dream of teaching and mentoring student researchers, starting at the University of Houston in 2016. In 2018, she moved to the University of Oklahoma where, in addition to active NSF and PRF grants, she is PI of the AASPI Consortium. In the last several, her diverse research group has published over 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts and presented over 40 conference presentations. Dr. Bedle’s primary research interests lie in the intersection of earth, energy, and the environment and her methods revolve around data science and machine learning, using a variety of data from reflection seismic, earthquake, shallow crustal geophysical methods, and social survey data.