I graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder magna cum laude with a degree in geology. While being a full-time student, I worked for the United States Geological Survey in the Biogeochemistry and Mineralogy of Redox-active Environmental Systems Laboratory. I also worked with Dr. Anne Sheehan and Dr. Matt Mendoza conducting research with Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) at enhanced geothermal sites and as a field technician for snow hydrology research with Dr. Eric Small.My current research is in conjunction with the USGS, CU Boulder, and ESPOL examining samples gathered from scoria cones on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Archipelago. My work focuses on the mineralogy, petrology, and isotope geochemistry of the samples via x-ray diffraction, thin section analysis, and strontium isotope analysis.