She recently served as the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Earth Sciences. She is a planetary scientist who focuses on geological processes on the terrestrial planets at a number of spatial scales. She has been a Science Team member for the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner thermal mapper and the NASA OSIRIS-REx laser altimeter. She received her M.Sc. from Georgia Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University. Prior to arriving in Toronto, Becky was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute where she studied the planetary surfaces of the Moon, Venus and Earth using radar remote sensing.