About

Hello, I am Maitri. I am a geologist, technologist, blogger and world traveler with a keen interest in public access to science education and open publishing. A science-literate and honest society is a successful society.

I currently work as technology director at a geospatial services company, researching the visual representation and simulation of 3D data. Before this, I worked for a decade as an oil-industry geologist and geophysicist. I am author of Maitri’s VatulBlog, reporter for VizWorld and am founder of Back Of Town: Blogging HBO’s Treme. A strong supporter of reading and the public domain, I am also Indian Languages advisor to Project Gutenberg, the oldest publisher of free electronic books.

Made in Kuwait of Indian parts, an impending move to the United States was hastened by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. I hold a B.S. in geology from the University of Illinois and a Masters in structural geology and an interdisciplinary Masters in computational sciences and geophysics from the University of Wisconsin. Until 2009, I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, where I made it through Hurricane Katrina and the Flood. My husband and I now make our home in northern Ohio and various world airports.

You can contact me through email or Twitter and my resume is on LinkedIn. Any opinions I express online are mine and not those of my employer unless otherwise stated, obviously.

I believe that science education, renaissance thinking and learning from the past while working on the future is the way into that future. As is obvious, I also have a soft spot for pirates. And rum.

Welcome aboard.