Summer 2025 marked one of the largest cohorts yet, with 33 interns placed at universities, research institutions, and national laboratories across the United States.

Conner Knorr is EarthScope’s Summer 2025 Project Management Office (PMO) intern working with Sarah Deutsch. Conner is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Houston studying geology and environmental science. In her internship, Conner is gaining experience in the organizational side of science working with the PMO team on resource allocation, dashboards, and more.

Dylan Bond is one of EarthScope’s Summer 2025 Geo-Launchpad interns. Working at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology, his project focuses on researching seismic background noise in southeastern New Mexico.

Nini Markhvashvili is one of EarthScope’s Summer 2025 RESESS interns. She is a recent graduate of Binghamton University, graduating with a degree in Environmental Geology. She is currently studying station data to observe crustal structures in the Alaska region.

Danielle Kinkel is EarthScope’s Summer 2025 Education and Data Resources Intern, and is currently a PhD candidate in geophysics at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada-Reno. Her work focuses on exploring existing educational materials and enhancing it for educators.

Aurora Byrd is one of EarthScope’s Summer 2025 Geo-Launchpad Interns. Her project focuses on Lake Cretaceous heavy mineral beach deposits in northern New Mexico. She is currently a rising sophomore at Austin Community College.

Rebecca Merber is one of EarthScope’s Summer 2025 RESESS Interns. Her project focuses on using machine learning to locate the magma chamber of the Akutan volcano. She is currently a rising senior at Michigan State University.

James Genero is one of EarthScope’s Summer 2025 RESESS Interns, working with Dr. Kellie Wall. He’s interning at the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory studying volcanology and geochemistry.

Erfan Horeh is a Ph.D. student in Oceanography at the University of Washington, specializing in underwater acoustics and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). His research focuses on using fiber-optic sensing to investigate ocean noise and marine environments. He holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran.