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.

Grant Clark is a URISE intern attending Missouri University of Science and Technology studying geology and geophysics. This summer, Grant’s project aims to better understand the structure of the mantle plume beneath Iceland.

Mario Coronado is a Student Career intern that recently graduated from California State University, Monterey Bay studying environmental science with an emphasis on ecology. This summer, Mario will be creating a road map of how the NOTA network was built, how components are chosen for each site depending on that location’s environment, how the data is stored, and the applications for users.

Elishua Shepherd is a RESESS intern that recently finished his third year at Arizona State University studying Earth and Space Exploration (Geological Sciences). This summer, Elishua is working to conduct X-ray diffraction analysis.

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.

Kaissa Inzunza Fonseca, who goes by Kai for short, studies environmental planning at Central New Mexico College. This summer, Kaissa is working with a team in New Mexico to build a data collection on the local aquifer that’s accessible to the public.

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.