Lyndsay Ball receieved a B.S. in Environmental Soil Science in 2003 from Virginia Tech University and a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2012. She is a research geophycist with the USGS Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center in Denver. where her research explores hydrogeologic systems and subsurface processes using integrated hydrological and geophysical approaches, with a focus on electrical and airborne geophysical methods.