Massachusetts ride host Dr. Cordula Robinson was born in Yorkshire in the U.K. with a riding gene that she says comes from her father. She spent a good part of her childhood traversing the North Yorkshire hills and vales, moors and mountains with her equine partners, in a landscape that can seem harsh to some. This is the same terrain that inspired such classics as Wuthering Heights, a magical landscape, intense and unrelenting. Rain, rock outcrops, brooks, streams, embankments, gullies, heather, pine forests, wind and wildlife prevail. These are ordinary elements in Cordula’s hacks. Thus, the expectation of sharing her life’s journey and adventures safely with the horse is natural and inseparable for her.
After receiving her doctorate in the UK and studying Viking data from the planet Mars, Cordula came to Massachusetts in her 20’s to work on the Magellan mission to Venus. Since then, her professional life has included National Science Foundation awarded research, having an asteroid (Cordie, 2942) named after her and presently being a Professor at Northeastern University, an institution for which she obtained USGIF (United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation) accreditation and a Center of Academic Geospatial Excellence designation from the National Geospatial Agency.
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Dr. Cordula Robinson
Professor at Northeastern University of MA, Dr. Robinson pays it forward to Strongwater Farm Therapeutic Equestrian Facility by hosting fund raising ACTHA rides since 2013