Dr. Tracy Fanara is on a mission to extend humanity’s time on earth through investigation, engineering and education. She an environmental engineer and research scientist with a BS, ME, and PhD from the University of Florida. Tracy spent almost a decade designing water systems around the world. Her graduate work focused on water quality through storm-chasing and sustainable design through integrated modeling. Tracy was the design engineer on two nationally winning EPA design teams, was a National Science Foundation SPICE fellow, and was selected as a US Presidential Management Fellow. Tracy has been recognized as an inspirational woman in STEM by The Weather Channel, Xylem YSI, The Observer, The Gina Davis Foundation: If Then/She Can, Project Inspire, The National Science Leaders of America, and many other organizations, Universities and news outlets for her tireless work in bringing science to the public. Tracy is the CTO of Project ENKI, a flood forecasting and education platform focused on community preparation for severe storms. Tracy served as the Coastal Modeling Manager at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and led the development of the National Ocean Service Vision, Strategy and Implementation Plan, and was the Program Manager for the Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed. Before joining NOAA, Tracy managed the Environmental Health research program at Mote Marine Laboratory where she developed citizen science programs, water treatment technology, marine habitats, aquaponics for space travel with NASA, and redeveloped a website (visitbeaches.org), along with developing three apps for publicly available environmental data reporting with over 1.7 million users.