Sydney Neugebauer serves as the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s (NASA) Capacity Building program coordinator, part of Earth Action. She supports activities across the Capacity Building Program’s elements and initiatives, including the Applied Remote Sensing Training program, DEVELOP, SERVIR, and the Indigenous Peoples Initiative. Neugebauer also helped initiate NASA’s Equity and Environmental Justice program in 2021.
Neugebauer joined NASA in 2018 as a participant in the NASA DEVELOP National Program, where she worked with local leaders to quantify salt marsh dynamics in coastal Massachusetts using remotely sensed data. Neugebauer joined NASA DEVELOP full-time as a project coordination fellow and lead at Langley Research Center and worked as a geographic information system consultant before joining the Capacity Building Program in April 2021.
As the coordinator, Neugebauer supports program management by gathering and analyzing program metrics and indicators, coordinating work across program elements and within Earth Action, presenting at meetings, workshops, and conferences, managing internal and external communications, mentoring Capacity Building Program interns, and more. In 2022, she received NASA’s Early Career Achievement Award at the Agency Honor Awards.
Neugebauer holds two bachelor’s degrees from Boston University in environmental earth science and music and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.