Rosemary Knight

Rosemary Knight is the George L. Harrington Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University, and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment. Rosemary received her Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford, was on the faculty at the University of British Columbia for 13 years, returning to Stanford in 2000. Rosemary has worked for more than 30 years on the challenge of using geophysical methods – with sensors on satellite, airborne, and land/water-based platforms – for groundwater science and management. Collaboration with local and state agencies and with nonprofit organizations to move “knowledge into action” has been, and remains, central to the work done by Rosemary with her research group. Rosemary’s current passion: Taking the Pulse of the Planet, a research and teaching initiative at Stanford operating at the interface between sensor technology and data science to discover new ways to obtain the actionable data we need to meet global-scale challenges in sustainability.