NASA Ames DEVELOP: Researching Wetland Restoration in the San Francisco Bay, Amber Kuss by Amber Kuss

Amber Jean Kuss M.Sc. is currently the Assistant Center Lead for the NASA Ames DEVELOP Program, and has been with the program since summer of 2010. This past summer, Miss Kuss took the role of team lead for a research project that studied the use of GRACE satellite data for estimating changes in groundwater storage in the Central Valley aquifer. Miss Kuss is a recent graduate from San Francisco State University in the Department of Geosciences. Her thesis examined the effects of climate variability on groundwater resources in the United States, and her research interests include groundwater and remote sensing techniques, environmental education, and wetland restoration. Miss Kuss also has experience as Staff Geologist for Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and as a lecturer for Oceanography at San Francisco State University.