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Albany, NY, US

Albany, New York, United States

Syracuse, New York, United States

• Assisted fieldwork in supervising drilling operations, collection of soil/sediment, dynamic cone penetration tests, and delineation of contamination at a stream in Upstate NY.
• Summarized and compiled data from five-year reviews and Record of Decisions for various CERCLA (Superfund) sites to track contaminated sediment remediation progress, project costs, etc.
• Provided technical assistance in generating graphics using Python, transcribing field notes, and quality checking data for report preparation.
• Researched and presented end-of-internship project on emerging technologies for imaging subsurface sediment and cap integrity at capping sites.

Ithaca, NY

• Oversee operations of interdisciplinary engineering project team of 20+ members in developing novel instrumentation for the collection of atmospheric, geologic, and hydrologic data.
• Collaborate with other team leads to establish a detailed project timeline, recruit new members, and manage delegation of project tasks.
• As a Water subteam member, develop an Arduino-based water sensor to detect temperature, salinity, and other environmental conditions for IoT network to monitor harmful algal blooms in Cayuga Lake.

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Assess workplace safety, maintain safety data sheets, and ensure all members have completed safety training.

Ithaca, New York Area

• Evaluate current university practices to achieve a carbon-neutral campus by 2035 using quadruple bottom line decision making and UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on residential buildings and life.
• Collaborate with other team members on campus-wide sustainability initiatives, that measurably reduce energy usage and waste, such as TerraCycle and cold water laundry.
• Spread awareness of sustainability, environmental justice, and materials management through peer education.

• Worked on a team to design a branded desktop product for our client Duro UAS.
• Won best design in our category in FunFab competition.
• Used CAD software to iterate and develop a design for 3D printing.
• Developed product marketing strategy and evaluated design for cost-efficiency and physical feasibility.

• Used Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) to visualize seismogram waveforms and spectrograms, conduct time series analysis, filtering, and component rotation to characterize and interpret seismic wave patterns.
• Developed beginner level fluency in Obspy, Shell Scripting, and GMT to analyze and plot seismic data.
• Gained experience using IRIS webservices to request seismic data and working with Jupyter notebooks.

Greater New York City Area

• Developed methods for researching park usage through collection of demographic and activity data.
• Analyzed data and created maps using ArcGIS to represent changes in site usage over time.
• Supervised field data collection teams in gathering data to assist in completing NYC Parks' GIS Inventory.
• Worked on project to solve water drainage issue in park through topography and repurposed excess runoff for irrigation.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Biological And Environmental Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Earth And Atmospheric Sciences

Activities and Societies: CU GeoData, Cornell Amateur Radio Club, Residential Sustainability Leaders