Aubrey Tingler

Aubrey Tingler is the State Science and Policy Fellow working with the Water and Science Administration at the Maryland Department of the Environment. She is also wrapping up her master’s degree in Environmental Science through the Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Science Program at University of Maryland, College Park, through the Leisnham Lab in the Environmental Science and Technology department. Her master's thesis focuses on the socio-ecological predictors of success in a community-led mosquito management program. Previously, she worked on the scientific journals and social media for the American Fisheries Society and as a Research Assistant in the Ohio State University Aquatic Ecology Laboratory. She has extensive experience in both field ecology and environmental education and outreach, having worked for Montgomery Parks, Hawthorne Valley Association, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

While her projects at MDE are still taking shape, she hopes to take existing flooding data that MDE has on hand and analyze it in conjunction with environmental justice data from frontline communities to help MDE better identify priority communities and effective intervention strategies. Additionally, she hopes to use her outreach and science communication experience to help MDE improve its public-facing materials on flooding and stormwater management. 

Aubrey is deeply interested in applied, community-focused science that bridges the gap between natural science understanding and social applications of knowledge. She is also interested in combining natural and social science methods to measure environmental management impacts. In her free time, Aubrey enjoys rock climbing, hiking, cooking and baking, reading, theater, and spoiling her adorable cat.