In the area of STEM, she has focused on the area of public communication. She has collaborated on several public climate change technology projects, including the Sea Level Rise Toolbox (http://eyesontherise.org/app) with the FIU GIS Center, and the Will It Flood? app with Code for Miami (http://willitflood.org/test3/ in beta). She collaborates with the Sea Level Solutions Center on citizen science projects where citizens collect flooding data during the King Tides. She has published social media analyses of partisan news organizations and their audiences in top international journals, and is currently engaged in analyzing Facebook communities of cancer patients. Her research interests include civic technology in service of the health and the environment, and the expressive qualities of digital media and social media in public communication.