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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