Jackson Sims is a fourth year EAS major with a focus in meteorology planning to graduate in the Spring. He grew up on a farm in Palmetto, GA working with his granddad, which fostered his interest in meteorology as the weather always played a role in what they would be doing each day. He was an MSE major for his first three semesters at Tech until he heard about and switched into EAS. He has been involved with the Baptist Collegiate Ministry on campus.
Manlin Xu is a second year EAS major with academic interests in environmental science, specifically climate science and oceanography. She conducts research with Dr.
Madeline Scheinost is a fourth year EAS major who graduated in May 2020. Her primary academic interests include meteorology and climate science.
Amy Weng is a fifth year EAS undergraduate major working in research with Dr.
Mckenzie Lane is a 4th year EAS major with academic interests in geology and geophysics. She conducted undergraduate research with Dr. Ken Ferrier on factors affecting chemical depletion and weathering rates of soils. She completed an internship with NASA’s SUPPR program studying chaotic tumbling and spin evolution in Mars’s moons Phobos and Deimos in summer 2019. Her work resulted in a second authorship on her first published paper in the journal Icarus. She attended the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in December 2019 to present this work.
Madeleine Hardt is a second year EAS major with a minor in French and biology. Her academic interests include climate change, ocean sciences, and environmental health. She is currently studying environmental sustainability abroad in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji on the Pacific Program. She conducts research with Dr. Kim Cobb and Dr. Hussein Sayani on paleoclimate in the tropical Pacific using ocean corals and is a recipient of the Rutt Bridges Undergraduate Initiative Award.
Elise Koepke is a 4th year EAS major with minors in Public Policy & Global Development. Her primary academic interests include climate science and sustainability. She has conducted undergraduate research with Dr. Ellery Ingall developing electrodialysis systems to optimize the recovery of dissolved organic matter from seawater. This past summer, she spent the semester studying sustainable development in various cities across Japan. She is a TA for EAS 2600 and GT 1000, and is a coach in the Excel Program.
Christina Lu is currently a 3rd year Earth and Atmospheric Sciences major and Public Policy minor. Her strongest earth science interests are geochemical processes and oceanography. She conducts research with Professor Taka Ito on the relationship between changing Southern Ocean wind stress and its effects on carbon uptake. She plans to apply her knowledge and experience working in the scientific community to the policy-making sphere to implement sustainable, evidenced-based changes in existing environmental regulations.
Rachel Walter is a third year EAS major with a minor in biology and interests in environmental science and oceanography. As part of her undergraduate research, she is working with Dr. Kim Cobb, Dr. Hussein Sayani, and the PAGES CoralHydro2k group to reconstruct tropical hydroclimate over the 20th century using corals.