Project Title: Exploring the Use of Silver Film to Detect the Presence of Sulfide in Wetland Soils: Adding a Silver Lining to Working with Challenging Terrain

Mentor: Eve-Lyn Hinckley, CU Environmental Studies, INSTAAR

Bio: Magdalena is from Denver, Colorado and has just concluded the first phase of her education at Community College of Denver. Before she attended CCD, she was a student at Red Rocks Community College and Arapahoe Community College. Through participation in Colorado Space Grant projects, she has discovered an exciting path in the engineering field. She has worked on several Demosat projects and was a member of the Colorado Community College RocksatX team which is where her love of STEM, particularly math and the research process, developed. From here, Magdalena developed a more specific interest in environmental and civil engineering as a way to keep her work terrestrial, timely and closer to home. She hopes to explore the way our infrastructure can adapt to the changing climate and work on projects that are more proactive in their approach to these changes rather than reactive. Magdalena hopes to attend University of Colorado at Denver to study Civil Engineering in the Fall of 2021. 

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