Bio

I am a 5th-year Electrical Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the Stanford Radio Glaciology group. My current research focuses on using ambient radio noise, such as the Sun, as a signal to measure the thickness of ice sheets. The objective is to develop a low-resource, passive radar that monitors the subsurface of glaciers by exploiting the Sun’s radio waves, instead of transmitting its own source for echo detection. While at Stanford, I have worked to enhance the diversity and inclusion of graduate education by serving as a mentor for Stanford’s Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education program, El Centro Chicano y Latino, the Bay Area Graduate Pathways to STEM, and the Stanford School of Engineering's Equity and Inclusion Initiatives team.

Honors & Awards

  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Student Prize Paper Award, IEEE (2019)
  • El Centro Chicano y Latino Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, Stanford University (2019)
  • Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Fellowship, Stanford VPGE (2018)
  • AGU Cryosphere Flash Freeze Innovation Award, American Geophysical Union (2017)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2016)
  • Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford VPGE (2015)
  • Stanford Engineering Larry and Joan Owen Fellowship, Stanford Electrical Engineering (2015)
  • GEM Ph.D. Engineering Associate Fellowship, The National GEM Consortium (2015)

Professional Affiliations and Activities

  • Student Member, American Geophysical Union (2016 - Present)
  • Student Member, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (2012 - Present)
  • Student Member, International Glaciological Society (2017 - Present)
  • Student Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2014 - Present)

Stanford Advisors

Contact

  • Academic
    stpeters@stanford.edu
    University - Student Department: Electrical Engineering Position: Graduate

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 9505

Links

Lab Affiliations

All Publications

  • Passive radio sounding to correct for Europa's ionospheric distortion of VHF signals Planetary and Space Science Peters, S. T., Schroeder, D. M., Romero-Wolf, A. 2020

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.pss.2020.104925

  • TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGE FORMATION WITH PASSIVE RADAR USING THE SUN FOR ECHO DETECTION Peters, S. T., Schroeder, D. M., Castelletti, D., Haynes, M. S., Romero-Wolf, A., IEEE IEEE. 2019: 10091–94

    View details for Web of Science ID 000519270601067

  • In Situ Demonstration of a Passive Radio Sounding Approach Using the Sun for Echo Detection IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING Peters, S. T., Schroeder, D. M., Castelletti, D., Haynes, M., Romero-Wolf, A. 2018; 56 (12): 7338–49

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2850662

    View details for Web of Science ID 000451621000038

  • FIRST IN-SITU DEMONSTRATION OF PASSIVE RADIO SOUNDING USING THE SUN AS A SOURCE FOR ECHO DETECTION Peters, S. T., Schroeder, D. M., Castelletti, D., Haynes, M., Romero-Wolf, A., IEEE IEEE. 2018: 4154–57

    View details for Web of Science ID 000451039804031