Chloe Stanton is currently in her third year in EAS. She has been heavily involved in undergraduate research since she was a freshman and has worked with Dr. Jen Glass for 3 years. Her interests are in the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen in the modern and ancient oceans, particularly the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Currently, Chloe is investigating marine nitrous oxide as a possible alleviation of the Faint Young Sun problem in the Proterozoic Era. She will be presenting her recent studies at the upcoming Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium in Knoxville, and publishing these results this year.

Chloe has been on sampling trips to Sapelo Island in the summer of 2014 and to Skidaway Island in the spring of 2015. She was awarded the Rutt Bridges Undergraduate Initiative Award last summer to continue her study of nitrous oxide production. This past fall, she travelled to Penn State University to work with the esteemed Dr. James Kasting, modeling the photodissociation of nitrous oxide in the Proterozoic atmosphere. To prepare herself for further geologic research, she will be attending a course at the Indiana University Judson Mead Geologic Field Station in the Rocky Mountains this summer.

She also serves as a TA for EAS 2600 and is a co-president for the EAS undergraduate club. In her free time, she likes to get outside and spend time with her family, friends, and pets.