Most of what I do outside research comes back to the same two things: building communities around earth science, and being outside in the environment I study.
I lead the official undergraduate student society of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, hosting social mixers, faculty Q&As and panels, geology movie nights, and student-led tours of Lamont.
I organize weekly in-person retreats at Columbia and bi-monthly meditation sessions at Columbia and NYU reaching roughly 130 attendees, booking venues, coordinating campus access, maintaining social media and PR, and representing the club at campus club fairs.
I coordinate training four times a week and racing, apply for school recognition, recruit members, and run the team's communications.
I explain climate processes to museum visitors, most of them children, through hands-on activities: the thermohaline circulation, the biological carbon pump, solar radiation and albedo, and the greenhouse effect.
I taught children about paleobotany by making bookmarks from plant-extract paper chromatography.
Six weeks on a two-acre organic farm as a Laidlaw Scholar: weeding, soil tilling, transplanting seedlings, harvesting, and biological pest control, plus hosting weekly farm stands. I presented the experience at the North America Laidlaw Scholars Conference at Brown University.
Facilitated guest check-in and backstage set-up for an event with 30+ speakers and 350+ attendees.
