Data science, consulting, and science communication

What is your data
trying to tell you?

Data surrounds you. It comes from your phone, your customers, the environment around you — any system that can record information. And it’s accumulating constantly. Spark Scientific is here to help you make sense of it and uncover the hidden, useful discoveries waiting to help you. With veteran collegiate training, we also teach and promote science to all kinds of audiences — hobbyists, the general public, children, and more.

10+years as a practicing astrophysicist
~10years on NASA space missions
Ph.D.in Astronomy, with degrees in Physics & Math
3+years of collegiate teaching

Services

What Spark Scientific can do for you

Every engagement ends with something you can use — a report, a deck, a tool, or a stronger proposal.

Scientific Data Analysis

What’s really going on in your numbers? Rigorous statistical analysis separates true patterns from noise — and tells you exactly how much confidence each answer deserves.

Polished Reports & Slide Decks

Your results as finished, shareable documents: a clearly written report or a ready-to-present slide deck, with visuals that make the story obvious at a glance — deliverables your team can circulate, reuse, and build on.

Scientific Software Development

Custom tools and automated pipelines that turn hours of manual data work into a button press — documented, dependable, and yours to keep using long after the engagement ends.

Science Communication & Talks

Talks, workshops, and public events that make complex science click for any audience — from classrooms to conference stages, honed by years of teaching and outreach.

Grant Proposal Support

A scientist’s eye on your proposal before the reviewers see it — sharpening the science, the story, and the structure, informed by firsthand experience writing and winning grants.

How it works

Raw data to real answers, in three steps

1

Consult

We talk through your data, your questions, and what a useful answer looks like for you. No jargon required.

2

Analyze

Your data gets the full scientific treatment: careful methods, honest uncertainties, and conclusions that hold up.

3

Deliver

You receive a polished report or presentation — plus a walkthrough, so the findings actually land with your audience.

Portrait of the founder of Spark Scientific

About

A scientist in your corner

Spark Scientific is led by a practicing astrophysicist and veteran college teacher with more than a decade of research experience, including nearly ten years working on NASA space missions, beginning at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech. She has used her research to cultivate the skills your data demands: customized software development, careful statistical analysis, compelling scientific interpretation, and clear communication to diverse audiences.

With an M.S. and Ph.D. in Astronomy, more than three years of collegiate teaching, and experience writing and managing science grants, she brings the full science toolkit to real-world data problems — and a genuine passion for helping organizations think like scientists.

Contact

Have data you don’t know how to use?

Tell us a little about your data and your goals — even if you’re not sure what’s possible yet. That’s exactly where the interesting conversations start.

info@sparkscientific.org