Kayla Duarte is a third year EAS major concentrating in planetary science and will be graduating in May 2019. She has been working on NASA’s Dawn Mission with Dr. Britney Schmidt since her freshman year studying geomorphological features on dwarf planet Ceres and the role of ground ice in its subsurface.
Ria Joshi is a 4th year EAS major with a concentration in Oceanography and Sustainability. Her line of research interest includes the Study the dynamics of density currents on underwater volcanic eruptions and currently working with Dr. Josef Dufek and grad student Ryan Cahalan.
While at Ga Tech, Ria has enjoyed the leadership role as the EAS Club President, a teaching assistant for EAS 2600, team leader for GT1000. In the future Ria hopes to work as an environmental consultant.
Nicholas Hitt is a 5th year senior graduation December 2016. His line of research is Paleoclimatology and Oceanography and has worked in Dr Kim Cobb’s Lab since spring 2015. While working with Dr. Cobb, Nick was awarded the Rutt S. Bridges Undergraduate Research Award and the PURA Travel Grant. He spoke at the AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans in 2016 and will be speaking at the AGU Fall Meeting in December 2016.
Riannon Colton is a 3rd year undergraduate student in EAS currently working towards her B.S. degree. In 2015-2016, she studied tectonic influences on chemical erosion rates under Dr. Ken Ferrier. In Spring 2016, Riannon earned the EAS Rutt Bridges Undergraduate Research Award and had the opportunity to spend 16 days aboard a Schmidt Ocean research vessel, the R/V Falkor, in Vietnam. This work was under the direction of Dr. Annalisa Bracco on an international ocean science team to measure nutrient fluxes to the South China Sea.
Matt Barr is a 4th year undergrad student in EAS. His line of research is oceanography in which he is using models and observations to analyze areas of low oxygen off the western coast of North America. Matt received his B.A. in religious studies from UCF in Orlando. He started and maintains the EAS research blog at www.gteas.wordpress.com. Matt also writes news stories and articles for the College of Sciences website.
Maddi Frank is a 5th year undergraduate student graduating in December 2016 with a B.S. EAS degree with a concentration in Meteorology. She is researching gas phase atmospheric chemistry and air quality field work with an aircraft based concentration. She currently works with CIMS (Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer) under Dr. Greg Huey and David Tanner. She has worked in Dr. Huey's lab for over 2 years and has participated in 2 field missions.
Bruno Rodriguez is a 4th year senior in EAS. His line of research includes severe weather and mesoscale meteorology. Currently he is deciding between two different research projects for graduate school, which he has been accepted to. Bruno is looking to do research related to either tropical meteorology at Florida State University or Fire Weather at San Jose State University. His previous work includes a summer research project, with Dr. James Belanger, on tornado predictability during tropical cyclones.
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.
Zeeshan Rasheed is a 5th year EAS student currently working as a student assistant for the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.His concentration is in Environmental Science with a minor in Sociology. Zeeshan participated in the Pacific Study Abroad Program 2015, traveling to Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. His other interests include conservation and sustainability.
Shellby Miller is an EAS senior who has been researching paleopclimate with Dr. Kim Cobb since August 2014. Her near term goals are to continue with her research in Dr. Cobb’s lab and submit for publication by Fall 2016. Some of her accomplishments include President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) Salary (Spring 2015), Rutt Bridges Award (Summer 2015), PURA Travel (Fall 2015), Joe S. Mundy Global Learning Endowment (Spring 2016), and most recently a poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2015.