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I'm Jessica Taylor, and I bring NASA science to the public in fun and engaging ways.

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Our Earth system is all connected.  And for us to understand the complex Earth system, 

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we have to understand from a global perspective, all the way down to that local perspective -- 

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which is what citizen scientists, volunteers on the ground, can help us with.

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Through the My NASA Data project, we are providing NASA's Earth science data directly to the student or to the teacher.  

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And that's really where the 
name My NASA Data came from --  

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because we want NASA's Earth science data to be your Earth science data, 

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so you can understand what's  going on in the environment.

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When I'm not working, 
I'm mostly spending time with my family.

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I have two girls that are very active.

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We enjoy going to the beach together,

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we enjoy swimming together,

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and we enjoy dancing together. I used to dance a 
lot growing up and so it's really fun to be able  

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to share that hobby with them.

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Well, I first became interested in meteorology in particular because a teacher of mine asked me

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to do a project on something that I was interested in.

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I decided to study lightning.

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I loved watching 
thunderstorms, and I just thought they were beautiful.

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In this project, what I learned was that scientists were still learning about how lightning happens, 

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and I just thought that was really cool that you could get a job learning about things that were of interest to you.

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And, to me, that's really kind of the definition of a scientist - is learning about things that are happening in our natural world.

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Working for NASA is pretty cool. I'm not gonna lie.

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What I'm doing is allowing people to see that they are a part of answers and solutions to the Earth system.

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And that everyone can practice being a scientist.

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And everyone can have a voice in understanding what's going on with our environment.

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