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Reno, Nevada, United States

Conduct research on groundwater resources sustainability in arid regions, drinking water quality, and the source and fate environmental contaminants in surface and groundwater supplies. Contribute to population health studies that aim to identify populations at risk of exposure to heavy metals in drinking water and examine the genetic links between cancer.

Reno, Nevada Area

• Develop local, catchment, and regional-scale numerical groundwater flow and contaminant transport models, perform parameter estimation and model calibration using PEST, conduct predictive analyses and uncertainty.
• Manage environmental field programs to evaluate groundwater and surface water resources, characterize hydrogeologic conditions through the design of pumping and monitoring well networks and implementation of aquifer.
• Perform data management and analysis tasks using geospatial and statistical techniques.

Reno, NV

• Groundwater quality and sustainability research in Niger, West Africa. Field responsibilities included site selection, field instrument operation, installation and inspection, groundwater sample collection, measuring.
• Data gather and assimilation to assist the White Pine County Water Advisory Committee in updating the county’s Water Resources Plan.
• Assisted in developing Python scripts that use Google’s Earth Engine platform to process and analyze Landsat imagery paired with water quality data observations from Lake Mead and Lake Mohave to monitor water quality.
• Pluvial lakes of the late Pleistocene in the Great Basin were mapped using Google Earth and ArcGIS. Paleoshorelines of Mars were mapped using Google Mars and ArcGIS.

Togo Village, Qamea Island, Fiji

Co-led sixteen middle and high school students on a community service trip in Fiji. Responsibilities included project planning and management, assigning duties, and organizing transportation. Projects included the construction of an improved sanitation facility, making a school garden, waste clean-up, and painting a building.

Tolland, Connecticut

Performed research and development activities for microscopic and macroscopic imaging systems used for scientific research at higher education and research institutions. Additional responsibilities included sales tasks, product demonstrations, exhibiting at natural science conferences, and taking photographs for scientific research projects, journals, and.

Dschang, Cameroon

• As a member of the physics department at the Government Bilingual High School of Dschang, taught 8th and 9th grade physics lectures and assisted in instructing 11th and 12th grade laboratory sessions.
• As project manager, applied for and received funding from the United States Agency for International Development, leading to the construction of a potable water system at the Government Bilingual High School of.
• Led fundraising effort to purchase and transport refurbished desktop computers, laptops, and printers to assist in launching a multimedia center at a local blind center.

Indiana, Pennsylvania

Conducted research to enhance understanding of how equatorial wind speeds and directions responded to climate variation during the late Cenozoic. Laboratory responsibilities included operating equipment (e.g., sonicators, centrifuges, and grain-size analyzers) to chemically isolate eolian dust from deep-sea sediment cores. Statistical analyses were.

Master Of Science - Ms, Hydrogeology

Activities and Societies: Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Center for International Water and Sustainability, Nevada Water Resources.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Geology

Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Research focus on paleoclimate of the Late Cenozoic and ancient-wind patterns in the eastern equatorial Pacific.

Geology

Semester Abroad