Kate Zeigler is the owner of Zeigler Geologic Consulting, LLC, a woman-owned small business specializing in geoscience consulting. She obtained her B.A. from Rice University in geology and anthropology in 1999. Her M.S. was granted by the University of New Mexico in 2002 and her thesis topic was taphonomy and vertebrate paleontology of an Upper Triassic bonebed. Her Ph.D. was awarded by UNM in 2008 and her dissertation focused on the magnetostratigraphy of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation. Kate now works to apply stratigraphic data sets to aquifer mapping and groundwater resource management projects in rural agricultural communities.