Noah S. Email & Phone Number

My name is Noah; I am a senior at Missouri State University, located in Springfield, Missouri. My graduation will be in July, 2025.I am currently employed at O'Reilly Auto Parts' HQ in Springfield as a GIS intern, while I continue to attend Missouri State. I work with ArcPro to map O'Reilly and competitor locations; provide support to the GIS Team with GIS projects, reports, and research and data development; update and maintain GIS data, maps, mapping tools, templates, and software; utilize GIS software (ArcMap and ArcPro) and predictive modeling technologies for potential O’Reilly store market areas; create presentations for management.I have completed a summer, undergraduate research project with my professor, and I presented my research at the Geological Society of America, which was held in Anaheim, California, September, 2024. My abstract is under my "Featured" area on my profile.I have the following lab experience: operating Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA), normalizing data from EPMA, and analyzing and graphing the EPMA data into Excel; analyzing Backscattered Electron images (BSE) from EPMA, and making logical interpretations of mineral formation, based on physical features of minerals, and the minerals’ EPMA geochemical data; creating laboratory reports on thin sections of volcanic and igneous rocks using polarizing microscopes, and using methods like, but not limited to: identifying minerals through birefringence, interference figures, extinction angles, and the like; examining deformity of minerals, and making logical interpretations of their deformities; organizing and formatting laboratory reports to be easily read; hand-drawing thin sections into reports; hand-picking plagioclase, nepheline, biotite, hornblende, and augite from crushed, whole-rock samples under a microscope, and separating the minerals into their own vials; operating polarizing microscopes to analyze thin sections; operating rock saw to cut rocks for thin sections; operating concentrating table; crushing rock samples to pick minerals; grinding rock samples to pick minerals; clean station area(s) after laboratory use.I am fascinated by volcanoes, igneous petrology, geochemistry; I combined these studies in order to do my undergraduate research project, and found it quite interesting, and I enjoyed it.