Tracy Fanara is an environmental engineer, scientist, and television presenter with a BS, ME, and PhD from the University of Florida. Tracy spent almost a decade as a project engineer, designing hydrodynamic systems around the world. Tracy takes an interdisciplinary approach to answering scientific questions with expertise in stormwater hydrology, ecotoxicology, microbiology, oceanography, and water treatment (for earth and space). Tracy managed the Environmental Health Research Program at Mote Marine Laboratory, which focused on harmful algae bloom research and mitigation. Tracy developed citizen science programs, smart phone applications, and redeveloped a website to collect publicly available environmental data gaining over 2million users. Following Mote, Tracy joined NOAA's National Ocean Service where she managed coastal and ocean modeling efforts mitigate threats to human lives and livelihoods on our coasts. Tracy is the Founder of Inspector Planet, an organization focused on innovation, environmental education and community. She spends time outside of work on the ocean, diving in caves, running STEM camps for middle and high school girls (Mission: Tampa Bay), unearthing dinosaurs, tagging sharks, and saving alligators. Tracy is on the Board of the Center for Coastal Solutions, is the Chair of the AMS Committee on Ecoforecasting, was a finalist to go to the moon, was a National Science Foundation SPICE Fellow, was an EPA Rainworks Challenge Champion twice, was named Xylem YSI’s Mission: Water Hero, and was featured in Marvel’s Unstoppable Wasp which led to her co-produced comic series, Seekers of Science. You may have seen Tracy on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week or Mythbusters the Search, on the Weather Channel show, Weird earth, or on ABC’s Animal Outtakes.