Aurora Baker is from St. Louis, Missouri, and is a rising senior at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She is an Environmental Science major with minors in Spanish and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She is expected to graduate with her Bachelor’s degree in Spring 2025, and aspires to pursue a career that uses GIS to address environmental issues and increase public science literacy.
She is an Ernest F. Hollings Class of 2023 scholar and is currently working with NOAA's Environmental Visualization Lab to update NOAA’s Data in the Classroom modules and develop data visualization prototypes for a new module on heat islands.
Striving to increase scientific knowledge and comprehension in the U.S., Aurora is excited to combine her interests in GIS with the development of data-driven resources for educators.