Congratulations to Daniella DellaGiustina, 2005 UA Space Grant Intern!
2005 UA Space Grant Intern Daniella DellaGiustina works as the Lead Image Processing Scientist for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. She holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Arizona, and an M.S. in Computational Physics from the University of Alaska. She got her start at LPL as an undergraduate in the Arizona Space Grant program working with Professor Dante Lauretta to characterize mineral phases in meteorites. Daniella continued to work at LPL with Dante Lauretta and Michael Drake, leading a student experiment on the Phase A Discovery OSIRIS Mission until the end of her undergraduate career. In graduate school, she fused remotely-sensed observations of Earth’s cryosphere with the numerical modeling techniques to understand the dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet. Daniella returned to the University of Arizona in 2012 as a Research Scientist in the Department of Physics, and transitioned back to LPL in early 2014. In her spare time she is an avid rock-climber and outdoor enthusiast, and serves as a Director for the Climbing Association of Southern Arizona (CASA).