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Mckenzie Lane is a 4th year EAS major with academic interests in geology and geophysics. She conducted undergraduate research with Dr. Ken Ferrier on factors affecting chemical depletion and weathering rates of soils. She completed an internship with NASA’s SUPPR program studying chaotic tumbling and spin evolution in Mars’s moons Phobos and Deimos in summer 2019. Her work resulted in a second authorship on her first published paper in the journal Icarus. She attended the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in December 2019 to present this work. Last spring, she had an incredible time on the Pacific Program studying abroad in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. Her extracurriculars include GT’s Earth sciences Honor Society, Sigma Gamma Epsilon (SGE), Greek Life on campus as a member of Phi Mu, and Tech’s cheerleading team for her first two years. In her free time she enjoys playing video games, collecting rocks and crystals, playing with her cats, and discovering new places to eat.