Kimberly Baugh is a research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She works with the Earth Observation Group at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) as lead developer for nighttime lights product generation. Her current work utilizes nighttime data from the VIIRS sensors developing algorithms to produce three product lines: nighttime lights, nighttime boat detections, and fires at night. She also has extensive experience making global nighttime lights products using data from the DMSP-OLS sensor, which has a digital record back to 1992.