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My position as a AAAS Fellow gave EPA the added staff resources to participate in the Open GIS Consortium (OGC), a global group of government, industry, and academic members, which had been working separately to address some of these challenges.

During my fellowship, I developed technical skills in probabilistic exposure modeling doing critical analysis of the pesticide cumulative risk assessment model. My colleague and I deconstructed the dietary exposure module of the cumulative model and ran sensitivity analyses on its components.

In a nutshell, my job was to keep abreast of these legislative issues and advise the Congressman on upcoming legislative votes and whether to sponsor legislation or sign issue-oriented letters.

As a AAAS Diplomacy Fellow for the U.S. Department of State in the Office of Global Change, I had a prime opportunity to exercise my technical background and my policy experience. My tasks ran the gamut from representing the U.S. in multilateral negotiations to the not so glamorous conversion of electronic file formats for my boss.