Project Title: Identifying How Outgoing Longwave Radiation Patterns Differ Between Warm and Cold ENSO Events

Mentor: Stefan Tulich, CIRES at CU

Bio: Crystal moved to Colorado after living in Mexico for most of her life and is a first generation college student; she is also the first female to attend college in her family. Currently, Crystal is studying her general science associate’s at the Community College of Aurora through the pre-engineering program with plans to transfer to the University of Colorado Boulder this fall. Upon attendance of the University of Colorado, she will pursue a bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering.

Over the last semester Crystal worked to compete in the Wearable Quest Challenge where she researched building a glove suitable for use in space that will also communicate the biological statistics of the wearer back to Earth. Crystal has also worked with the Colorado Space Grant Consortium to build robotics and participated in NASA’s annual Robotics Challenge. Additionally, Crystal has experience as a student engagement ambassador in a student life office and a teaching assistant in the robotics lab.

Crystal is the former President of the LatinX Student Alliance, former Student Government Association, and member of the State Student Advisory Council. Upon degree completion her main goal and dream are to focus on creating sustainable functions for new and old structures that will benefit the environment and sustain a better quality of life to help combat our global warming issues.

View Crystal's poster and poster presentation.