Alice is a mountain hydrologist who works on developing staff leadership and operational capability at Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Te Papa Atawhai/Department of Conservation.  Alice is also an experienced outdoor educator and field risk manager with a focus on developing high-performing field teams, having logged hundreds of weeks as a senior expedition and wilderness medicine instructor for NOLS in remote regions across the world. Alice developed the original iteration of FieldSafe in 2018 as a postdoc at CIRES, and has been involved in its ongoing curriculum and delivery evolution ever since, including as co-PI on the current MOOC project.  Alice’s favorite work experiences – and indeed those that have led her to focusing on developing others into their best selves – are characterised by managing challenging field environments with a supportive team, fueling her passion to help create this opportunity for future scientists of all backgrounds.