Please join us for the CICOES Intern Symposium. This culminating event highlights the hard work and achievements of our 14 CICOES interns, who are all conducting research projects under the guidance of scientific mentors.
The Symposium is on Thursday, August 21st from 10:15am to 12:15pm in Alder Hall Commons. We’ll begin with opening remarks and introductions of each intern, followed by a series of 90-second videos that briefly recap each intern’s project and overall experience. The remainder of the event will be a poster session, creating time for the interns to discuss their work in more detail.
Here are our interns, their mentors, and the working titles of their research projects.
- Amanda Blunt – Seattle University
- Mentor: Lucia Upchurch
- Project: Arctic aerosol trends at the NOAA Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory
- Cailey Plainte – Simmons University
- Mentor: Will Ballentine
- Project: How acidification affects the hydrodynamics of Wing Foot Snails (Pteropoda)
- Eliana Gonzalez – Bowdoin College
- Mentor: Georgy Manucharyan
- Project: The role of localized weaknesses in Kobuk Lake ice breakup patterns
- Engi Yang – John Hopkins University
- Mentors: Daniel Schindler, Jackie Carter, Chris Boatright
- Project: Sockeye salmon ecosystem research in Bristol Bay, Alaska
- Erin Novobilsky – Marist College
- Mentor: Travis Mellett
- Project: The impact of iron bioavailability to phytoplankton and bacteria growth in the North Equatorial Pacific
- Jingwen Liu – Johns Hopkins University
- Mentors: Yolande Serra, Meghan Cronin, Liz McGeorge, Dongxiao Zhang, Reka Domokos
- Project: Saildrone observations of ocean currents and ecosystem variability during the development of the 2023-24 El Niño
- Lydell Mitchell – Montana State University
- Mentors: Shelley Johnson, Tessa Code, Lisa Wetzel
- Project: Influence of artificial light at night (ALAN) on salmon predation
- Margaret Veatch – Colby College
- Mentors: Daniel Schindler, Jackie Carter, Chris Boatright
- Project: Sockeye salmon ecosystem research in Bristol Bay, Alaska
- Nico Davis – Colorado College
- Mentors: Matt Luongo, Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth
- Project: Investigating impacts of winds on ocean circulation via a hierarchy of models
- Rachel Mutti – University of Miami
- Mentors: Sophie Nuber, Maureen Walczac
- Project: Reconstructing the ratio of magnesium to calcium from single foraminifera to understand marine heat waves during current and past climate changes
- Sirray Smith – Morgan State University
- Mentor: TJ Fudge
- Project: Small scale variability in Antarctic snowfall and its impact on ice core records
- Thomas Do – University of San Francisco
- Mentor: Xinyu Li
- Project: How seasonality affects the coastal ocean’s CO2 uptake from the atmosphere
- Vanessa Martiny – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Mentor: Aditya Khuller
- Project: Effects of surface roughness and impurities on ice thickness and photosynthesis during Snowball Earth
- Zoe Khan – Smith College
- Mentor: Eric Ward
- Project: Combining survey data to quantify spatiotemporal variation in fish populations across the northeast Pacific Ocean