Angelica is a Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTech focused on sea level science and heavily involved in the new NASA SWOT mission. She received her PhD in Physical Oceanography from SIO in May 2019 where she focused on the impacts of wave-current interaction on small scale buoyant coastal outflows and shoal-channel exchange in San Diego Bay.  Prior to her current JPL position, she was a postdoctoral scholar with the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation at SIO and worked as an Oceanographic Scientist at the Unmanned Maritime Vehicle Laboratory – Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. She holds a B.S. in Physics with Specialization in Earth Science and a minor in Environmental Systems. Broadly, she is interested in the interaction between estuaries and the coastal ocean and applied sea level science.