Undergraduate Students
Congrats to EES Undergraduate and Alumni- Maya, Joyce, and Bea!
Sep. 30, 2024—Congrats Maya, Joyce & Bea! The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences would like to highlight some cool achievements of recent and former EES undergrads in the past couple of months: Current EES senior Maya Maciel-Seidman (EES ’25) recently published her work with Dr. Z Tzankova (Climate Studies): “Mobilizing carbon offsetting to reduce energy cost...
Vanderbilt EES Winners at 2021 GSA Conference
Oct. 25, 2021—Congratulations to EES PhD student Kat Turk and undergraduate student Andrei Olaru for winning awards at the 2021 GSA Conference in Portland, Oregon. Kat won a best oral presentation award for her project titled “”Priapulid trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of Namibia.” Andrei’s poster presentation titled “”Functional morphology of the Ediacaran organism Tribrachidiium heraldicum...
EES student Julia Tilton is featured in the VU Volume Scaffold for her essay Millions on The Move
May. 10, 2021—You can read her essay here. Congrats Julia!
Jake Schenthal ’21: Award-winning research in the Mediterranean
Jan. 5, 2021—Jake Schenthal ’21 at his field site in the Middle East Jake received the department’s Alberstadt-Reesman-Stearns Field Studies Award, enabling him to conduct research on human-environmental interactions in the Middle East. “I gained tremendous knowledge about how human societies interact with the surrounding ecosystem in both the Mediterranean and the surrounding valleys. I am immensely grateful to...
Maya Sandal ’21: Life-changing field work in the Italian Alps
Jan. 5, 2021—Maya Sandal ’21 in the Italian Alps In August 2019, Maya traveled with professor Dan Morgan to Italy’s Northern Alps. The two collected rock samples to aid in research on deglaciation in the area. Maya went hiking, worked with students and professors from the local university, and learned about glacial geology. After returning to Vanderbilt,...