Assistant Environmental Engineer in the Antidegradation unit in the engineering section of the Water Protection Program.

Temporary position through October 2020.

Walk-on varsity cross country and track athlete.

Worked full-time on a NSF/Gates-funded BREAD project.

During my second semester of freshman year I completed two credits of student research(6-10 hours per week.) For the first month in the lab most of my time was spent becoming oriented. The orientation included learning all of the safety procedures of the lab, learning lab vernacular and reading many papers on the lab's current and past research. After becoming oriented I began testing flow rates on one of the labs reactor prototypes using a photodiode attached to an Arduino with the eventual goal of monitoring growth through optical density. Through this work I learned how to write Arduino IDE code, Bash command line, soldering , basic circuitry, and algae maintenance. Once the flow rates where found the KLA was then calculated. The overarching goal of my work is to improve automation and remote monitoring in the lab.