Christie is an Assistant Professor in UW Civil and Environmental Engineering. She received her BS in Environmental Sciences from Boston College and her PhD in Ocean Sciences from UC Santa Cruz. Christie was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering at WHOI and a Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow at the US Geological Survey. Before joining UW, she was a Senior Research Scientist at Sofar Ocean. Christie loves being outside, whether on the water, in the mountains, or in the garden.