Presenter

Marla Meehl has over 20 years of experience managing large research and education network projects. In Marla’s leadership role as Head of the Network Engineering and Telecommunications Section (NETS) in the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), she manages numerous large scale networking programs supporting the scientists and researchers in the utilization of NCAR high performance computational and data resources. Marla has been instrumental in the formation and development of external networking projects and activities for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) including the Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP), Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON), and the Boulder Point of Presence (BPoP). Marla is the Principle Investigator (PI) on the NSF CC* Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) grant, and co-chair of the Internet2 Inclusivity Initiative (I2I).