Dr. Jodi L. Mead joined the faculty of Boise State University in 2000. She earned her B.S. from Syracuse University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Arizona State. During the Spring Semester of 2007 Dr. Mead was a Visiting Professor at Arizona State University, where she began developing the Chi-squared method for parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification with Rosemary Renaut. The idea for this method came from her experience working with people in the Oceanography Department at Oregon State University, and the Geosciences Department at Boise State University. Her other research interests include inverse methods, numerical analysis, applied partial differential equations; including regularization, data assimilation pseudospectral methods, Runge-Kutta methods, absorbing boundary conditions, data assimilation, and how they relate to problems in imaging, hydrology, geophysics, physical oceanography, and computational aeroacoustics, physical oceanography and the geosciences. As of January 2015, Dr. Mead was elected as an officer of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Geosciences, which is the major applied math society in the United States.