作为ESRI的首席科学家，Dawn Wright博士有助于加强ESRI软件和服务的科学基础，同时还代表了科学界的ESRI。她是海洋地质学专家，为海洋GIS的一些最明确的文献撰写并撰写了贡献。Wright is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society of America, the California Academy科学和海洋学协会。她在俄勒冈州立大学地球，海洋和大气科学学院担任地理与海洋学教授的附属教师任命。赖特（Wright）拥有分校圣塔芭芭拉（UC Santa Barbara）的物理地理学和海洋地质学跨学科博士学位。