4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109A NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow is not an employee of any office or agency. The fellow has a guest appointment at JPL. ORAU currently administers the appointment.
Amanda (Mandy) Mulcan Lopez is a geoscience researcher in the water and ecosystems group at JPL. Her research focuses on using NASA remote sensing methods and data products to study water quality, coastal ecology, and marine resource management. Mandy joined JPL in 2021 after completing her Ph.D. in geology at the University of Houston, where she studied the biogeochemical cycling of trace metal contaminants in Galveston Bay estuary.
Coastal geoscience, science policy, marine renewable energy, marine biogeochemistry, trace metal contaminants, science education, public outreach