Sarah graduated with a Ph.D. in May 2018 after defending her dissertation entitled “Tropical Oceanic Thunderstorms and the Roles of Evolution, Organization, and Environmental Forcing in Their Electrification”. She was awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellowship, and is currently working with Dr. Dan Cecil at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, working on the detection of severe hail using passive microwave radiometers onboard the GPM satellite.