Dr. Kate Fickas is a remote sensing ecologist who uses earth observation to help natural resource and conservation managers make decisions about aquatic ecosystems. She is currently research faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst studying how drones and satellite imagery can be used to capture changes in vulnerable salt marsh wetlands on the US East Coast and funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She is also research faculty at Utah State University helping public health managers track harmful algal blooms with earth observation data. Dr. Fickas created the Ladies of Landsat Twitter page in 2018 as she was finishing her PhD and sought a community of women to share her experiences with in the field of earth observation. Since then, Ladies of Landsat has become a collaborative effort with other EO scientists who have helped grow the Ladies of Landsat Twitter following to 6,500 followers by creating a diverse and inclusive community to support and amplify voices of women and other under-represented groups in EO and working to change the status quo of a male-dominated field.