Briana Prado is a graduate student in the Geography department working under Dr. Melisa Diaz on chemical weathering of Antarctic soils. This summer Briana and RECCS mentee Izze will be conducting grain size analysis of McMurdo Dry Valley soils to understand the chemical composition and weathering processes of the soils.  Briana and Izze will then develop skills in XRD preparation and analysis and work on identifying composition of samples. 

Briana is from San Diego, CA and completed her undergrad at UC Santa Cruz double majoring in Earth Science and Chemistry. She is generally interested in biogeochemical cycles with an emphasis on the geochemical aspect of those processes. Briana enjoys going to concerts, playing ukulele and biking around Boulder and looks forward to building community at CIRES this summer.