Through the course of my Masters (Virginia Tech, 2011) and PhD, I've been involved in various projects related to aeronomy and space science. On the computational side of things, I've worked on atmospheric models (built using Fortran and IDL) to improve our understanding of nitric oxide distribution in the thermosphere, and also its contribution to the energetics of that region. On the experimental side of things, I have been part of a sounding rocket mission that was designed to measure nitric oxide densities in the polar night, and have also been part of two expeditions to the East Antarctic Plateau to install magnetometers that study the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field.