Brad Rubin is a third year EAS Major with a Meteorology focus. Brad’s main interests are severe weather cyclogenesis, operational forecasting, meteorological consulting, and (occasionally) storm chasing. He is an active member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS); he currently serves as President of Georgia Tech’s AMS student chapter, StORM Club, and he attended the 2019 AMS Student Conference. He is currently researching jet superposition events and near-miss events under the guidance of Dr. Zachary Handlos, and plans to pursue a Master’s degree. He is a brother of Phi Delta Theta and a member of the Sting Hunger Club on campus. He enjoys playing basketball, fishing, and cooking.  

Sara Tonks a third year BS/MS student majoring in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences with a focus in Meteorology. She is most interested in severe weather, emergency management, meteorological data analysis, and fieldwork. She is an active member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS); she currently serves as Vice President of Georgia Tech’s AMS student chapter, StORM Club, and she attended the 2019 AMS Student Conference. She has TA’d EAS 1600 (Introduction to Environmental Sciences) and EAS 1601 (Habitable Worlds). She is a Brother of Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Service Fraternity. In her free time, she enjoys playing guitar, writing, and hiking.

Xinyi (Camilla) Liu is a 3rd year senior EAS undergraduate major with a minor in German. She will begin her PhD in Fall 2019. Her undergraduate research has focused on landscape and early life evolution, and her most recent project involves Earth system modelling with Dr. Chris Reinhard. She is an EAS lab TA, a member of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, a PURA recipient, and an Alternative Break Coordinator in GT Trailblazers. Camilla is from China. She enjoys travelling, especially in the Himalayas, playing badminton, playing the Chinese flute, translating books, travel photography, and trying all sort of new things.

Lily Sandler is a 3rd year EAS major. Her research interests lie in biogeochemistry. She does undergraduate research with Dr. Jennifer Glass on oceanic nitrogen cycling. She is working to develop a method to efficiently measure hydroxylamine, a reactive intermediate of the nitrogen cycle that react to produce nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.

Lily is also a member of the Georgia Tech chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the Earth Science honor society. Lily also volunteers at ORGT (Outdoor Recreation Georgia Tech), where she is a Backpacking Instructor and helps to lead overnight backpacking trips for Georgia Tech students. Over the summer, she went on an ORGT Backpacking Expedition to Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean, to complete the GR20, the hardest long-distance hiking trail in Europe. She enjoyed seeing the geologic formations on the trail!

Kathrine Udell is a 4^th year EAS student minoring in Sustainable Cities. Her research interests are in planetary science and glaciology. She does undergraduate research with Dr. Britney Schmidt on the dynamics of glaciers in Greenland. In 2017, Kathrine worked on the TARGIT CubeSat LiDAR project under Dr. Brian Gunter. Kathrine also spent a semester interning at EGSci, a geotechnical consulting company.

During her time researching she has attended IGS, presented at AGU 2017 and is planning to present again at AGU 2018. Kathrine is also the president and a founding member of the Georgia Tech chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the Earth Science honor society.

In her free time, Kathrine likes to tend to her ever-growing plant collection, read, and travel.

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. She has a first-authored paper in revision pertaining to an intermediate class of landslides identified on Ceres, and recently gave a talk at the Division of Planetary Sciences Annual Meeting in Knoxville, TN on her current research involving potential ground ice related features in Occator crater on Ceres.

During her time at Georgia Tech, Kayla was awarded both the Rutt S. Bridges Undergraduate Research Award and the President’s Undergraduate Research Award. She was also a member of Lambda Sigma Honor Society, a sophomore-only honor fraternity.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending hours in the kitchen creating organic cosmetics, playing guitar, and skateboarding.

Jacob Buffo is a 4^th year PhD student whose line of research is Ice-Ocean interactions both here on Earth and on icy moons in our solar system. Right now Jacob is specifically studying sea ice and ice shelves here on Earth, and Jupiter's moon Europa, which harbors a large subsurface ocean.  He is working under the advisement of Dr. Britney Schmidt. Jacob received his B.S. from the University of Iowa, a double major, awarded in Physics and Astronomy.  In his spare time Jacob enjoys the outdoors, specifically hiking, biking, snowboarding and xc skiing.

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Biao Wan is a 2^nd year PhD student under the supervision of Professor and advisor Dr. Yuanzhi Tang. Biao has been working on exploring the role of exogenous polyphosphate in the precipitation of calcium phosphate minerals in the marine environment.  He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Environmental Sciences from Huazhong Agricultural University and enjoys listening to music, watching movies, NBA games, cooking, and traveling in his spare time.

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Shelby Ellis is enjoying her 2^nd year as a graduate student in EAS.  Working very closely with faculty advisor Dr. Kim Cobb, Shelby’s specific line of research is paleoclimatology. Shelby received her B.A. in Chemistry from Florida Gulf Coast University. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, going to the beach and drinking margaritas.

Pan Liu is a 2^nd year PhD student. Working with faculty advisor Dr. Yuanzhi Tang, Pan is investigating the influence of microbial activities on the behaviors of a group of intriguing metals, the rare earth elements. He is also working on developing methods to harness microbes to recycle those metals from solid wastes, like coal fly ashes.  Pan Liu earned his B.S. from Nanjing University in Nanjing, China. In his spare time he enjoys traveling, hiking, and playing basketball.