Lilly is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with Earth Lab, where she has worked with a dynamic, interdisciplinary team to advance predictive fire-vegetation modeling. Recent work supports Southern California Edison’s fire mitigation strategies by using Earth data science tools to capture changes in vegetation lifecycle phases.

Lilly’s research centers on applying Earth Data Science to improve environmental hazards models—particularly those related to fire behavior and hydrologic systems. She also serves as a teaching assistant for Earth Lab’s Earth Data Science Certificate program, where she helps train the next generation of data-driven environmental scientists.

As a proud graduate and former faculty member of a Tribal college, Lilly is deeply committed to working with Tribal communities. She collaborates on building models, data cubes, and reproducible workflows tailored to support the goals of a growing network of Tribal partners.

Lilly holds a PhD in Geology and Geological Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and a BS in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Oglala Lakota College. Her interests include environmental hazards modeling, Earth data science and reproducible workflows, and Tribal data sovereignty and capacity-building.

Research Interests

Environmental hazards modeling

Earth data science and reproducible workflows

Tribal data sovereignty and capacity-building