Kiera Tran is a senior in Earth and Atmospheric Science major. She started with a Business major but ended up pursuing her passion toward Earth Science with concentration Oceanography and Climate concentration. She has been conducting research with Dr. Winnie Chu and her graduate student Angelo Tarzona which will be presented in 2021 AGU Fall Meeting. Their research focuses on observing and analyzing data collected from airborne radar on Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) in the half past century, where Kiera is responsible for modern data observations within the past 20 years. By extracting the data, they compute the ice thickness, geometric power, and reflectivity from surface and bed layers of the ice shelf to produce modern ice thickness map and qualitative map of ice-shelf basal crevasses and channels on RIS. After school, she tutors science and language classes for minority K-12 students across the US through Abc-tutor. Beside all the work that she enjoys in academics, she likes playing piano and kalimba, drawing, writing stories, playing sports with friends, and volunteering in environmental activities.
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