Another successful summer in the books…

2022 REU students, graduate student mentors and PI, Carrie Masiello

While we bid a sad farewell to the 2022 REU cohort, we are comforted with knowing that they leave Rice with new skills, new confidences, and have made lasting friendships and professional connections.  Several students will present their research efforts at this years Fall AGU meeting. Others are looking to perhaps return to Rice in the future for graduate research.

Many EEPS faculty and graduate students attended and judged posters, along with VIP’s from Lonestar, Texas Southern University and TAMU who came to support their students.  Congratulations to Yamini Patel who was awarded best poster presenter!

You can tour the 2022 REU PHOST (Planetary Habitability over Space and Time) poster presentation for each participant in the gallery below.

 

Gabi Burke describes to Zhouye He how weathering of basalt can inform rates of carbon sequestration
Evan Ritchey explains polar wander to EEPS postdoctoral fellow Evan Ramos
Enzo DeVita examined ways to identify structural changes caused by fracking using seismic ambient noise
Andrew Bierbower discusses his research with Katharine Caruso, Ph.D. Associate Vice Chancellor Honors and International Education
Stephanie Suniga discusses how various ratios of elements reflect water quality from different watersheds in Panama
Daniel Walker compared seismic data sets to assess the quality of the signal collected by two different instruments
Yamini Patel discusses her experiments to constrain water in the martian mantel
EEPS Faculty Sylvia Dee, Juli Morgan and PhD candidate Jackson Borchardt listen to Stephanie Suniga’s presentation