Fall 2024
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Toby Armstrong (Mentor: Heather Holmes) - Advancing Wildfire Air Quality Management: Integrating TROPOMI Data for Enhanced Exceptional Event Reporting
Kyler Pak (Mentor: Heather Holmes) - An Analysis on The Accuracy of Current Weather Forecast Models on Extreme Weather Events
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
Jasmine Aguilar Lopez (Mentor: Leandra Hernandez) - Atrapadxs en un Hoyo: Reproductive Justice and Environmental Health of Latina Mothers and Children in Salt Lake City Utah
Eliana Massey (Mentor: Maile Arvin) - Food Sovereignty Possibilities for Pacific Islanders in Salt Lake City's West Side
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Jacob Sussman (Mentor: Katharine Walter) - Environmental niche model of Coccidioides presence using mammal distributions
COLLEGE OF MINES & EARTH SCIENCES
Autumn Hartley (Mentor: Sarah Lambart) - The Cause of Excess Magmatism in the Northern Atlantic Margin
Drew Hooker (Mentor: Gannet Hallar) - How Wildfire Smoke as an Exceptional Events affect Human Health
Rae Noble (Mentor: Leif Anderson) - Cosmogenic 3He Surface Dating: Alpine Glaciers of Fish Lake Plateau and Boulder Mountain, Utah
Kyle Pope (Mentor: Tonie van Dam) - Monitoring Seasonal Aquifer Storage Change in the Salt Lake Valley using Repeat Microgravity and GPS Measurements
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
Jane Damstedt (Mentor: Kasey Cole) - Using Past Ecosystems to Understand Modern Climate Change: A Case Study from Utah’s House Mountain Range
Bennett Davenport (Mentor: Kasey Cole) - Evaluating the Effects of Climate Change on the Body Size of Uinta Mountain Rodents
Auriana Dunn (Mentor: Kasey Cole) - Comparing Historical and Modern Mammal Distribution at Bear River Basin: Has climate had an effect?
Kierra Forthman (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Heavy Metal-Free Green Energy Storage Devices Operating in Water-Based Electrolytes
Rylie Gagne (Mentor: Jody Reimer) - Enhancing Models of Optimal Polar Bear Movement in the Arctic through Advanced Data Science and Image Processing
Lucy Leary (Mentor: Jody Reimer) - The world in color: how different types of noise affect ecological transient dynamics
Kathy Lin (Mentor: Jody Reimer) - The Dynamics of the Microbial Community within Sea Ice
Delaney Miller (Mentor: Connor Bischak) - Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors for Green Energy Storage
Ainsley Parkins (Mentor: Rodolfo Probst) - Unveiling Cryptic Avifauna Diversity Using Nanopore DNA Sequencing: A Case Study in the Passerine Genus Emberiza (Passeriformes: Emberizidae)
Allie Perkins (Mentor: Talia Karasov) - Quaking Aspen Pathogen Defense in the Presence of Climate Change Related Drought
Bitia Robles (Mentor: William Anderegg) - Evaluating the Impact of Discontinuing Carbon Credit Use and Its Effect on Corporate Emissions
Nate Stovak (Mentor: Thomas Reichler) - Predicting Monthly to Seasonal Western U.S. Climate Anomalies
Shaylee Whipple (Mentor: Kasey Cole) - Evaluating the Effect of Climate Change on Body Size of Animals in Owl Cave
Brandt Winn (Mentor: Aparecido Luiza) - Water Use of Native vs. Invasive Plants in Riparian Zones
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
Rachel Christensen (Mentor: Mitchell Power) - Exploring responses in the stomatal conductance of conifers using stomatal density as a proxy through changing atmospheric conditions: an analysis using Pinus longaeva.
Riley Cummings (Mentor: Shane Macfarlan) - Impact of Natural Disasters and Climate Shocks on Risk Perception in the Baja California Peninsula
Gracyn Hinojosa (Mentor: Shane Macfarlan) - The Impact on Ranching Culture and Livestock Management in the Baja California Peninsula
Natalia Lopez (Mentor: Sara Grineski) - Resident Perspectives on Air Pollution and Environmental Injustice in Salt Lake Countyv
Celeste Maybell (Mentor: Tim Collins) - Shade, Urban Heat, and Public Transportation in Tucson, Arizona
Julie Moyano (Mentor: Shane Macfarlan) - Impacts of Drought and Economic Variability on Ranch Abandonment in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Melanie Osuna (Mentor: Andrea Brunelle) - UROP Proposal Fall 2024
Sofia Price (Mentor: Shane Macfarlan) - Distribution of Ranches in the Baja California Peninsula and Drought Affectedness
Alec Roberts (Mentor: Monika Lohani) - A Study of Identity and Behavior in Reaction to Critical Climate Change Information Utilizing Mobile Eye Tracking in a Museum Setting