Background

Family

Card1969-zoom — Larson Family at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1969

I was born and raised in southern California. My family moved to San Diego in 1970 when my father took a job at the Deep Sea Drilling Project (see the dedication for Volume 60 ). I attended Harvard for college (receiving the rare A.B. degree in engineering), and then returned to San Diego for graduate school. I moved to Colorado in 1990, which is where I met my husband George Rosborough.

Education

Harvard University
A.B. Engineering Sciences, 1985

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, U.C.S.D.

Ph.D. Geophysics, 1990

Work Experience

Distinguished Professor Emerita
Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn, 2022-2024.

Professor 1990-2018, Professor Emerita, 2018-
Dept. Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of Colorado

Community Service

Chair, Geodesy Program, Fall 2000 AGU.
Chair, International Earth Rotation Service Committee on the ITRF Datum, 1999-2003.
Editor, Geophysical Research Letters, AGU, 2002-2004.
NRC Committee Member, Precise Geodetic Infrastructure: National Requirements for a Shared Resource, 2008-2010.
NRC Committee Member, New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences at NSF, 2010-2011.
EarthScope Speaker, 2012-2013.
NRC Committee Member, Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space, Earth Surface Interior, 2016-2017.
NRC Committee Member, Evolving the Geodetic Infrastructure to Meet New Scientific Needs, 2018-2019.
NRC Committee Member, Review of FCC Order 20-48, 2021-2022.