Author: Natalea Cohen

Sara Agard is a Geo-Launchpad intern that recently completed her first year at Central New Mexico Community College studying pre-health science. This summer, she will be mapping the St.Vrain using QGIS over the past decade to collect research on the behavior of flood plains.

Alaina Foster is a URISE intern entering their senior year at Wellesley College in Massachusetts studying geoscience and computer science. This summer, Alaina is at the University of California Berkeley looking at seasonal seismic velocity changes in the Long Valley Caldera.

Masooma Hasnain is a URISE intern from Los Angeles, California. This summer, Masooma is working on a project aiming to identify land- and sea-based microseisms from historical data.

Jaden Hill is a Student Career intern entering her senior year at Columbia University studying environmental science and sustainable development. This summer, Jaden is working with a team of interns to assist the science communication team at EarthScope.

Sebastian Griego is a Geo-Launchpad intern that just completed his degree at Central New Mexico Community College in Earth and planetary sciences. This summer, Sebastian is working on a project to map and verify the composition of rare earth element ores and other critical minerals in Black Hawk mining district in Grants, New Mexico.

Sarah Ayling is a URISE intern from Syracuse, New York. This summer, Sarah is working on a project at Cornell University focused on the Kodiak Island seismic nodal array.

Leah is a URISE intern and a rising senior at University of Texas at El Paso studying geophysics. This summer she will be using data from the South California Earthquake Catalog, SCEC, and will be focusing on the year of 2019 as this is when the Ridgecrest earthquakes occurred.

Anah Bogdan is a URISE intern entering her fourth year at SUNY Potsdam with a double major in math and geology. This summer, working with Dr. Heather Ford at UC Riverside to determine where the Moho boundary is beneath the Los Angeles Basin.

Rori Kgoadi is a RESESS intern spending the summer in Boulder, Colorado. This summer, Rori is working on a project that explores metal transport into Colorado streams via groundwater dynamics.

Jackson Fellows is an URISE intern entering his third year at Cornell University studying Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. This summer, he is working on a project using data collected from the Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment.