Project Title: Soil Moisture Patterns in Thawing Soil at Green Lakes Valley, Colorado

Mentor: Mickey Rush, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department at CU

Bio: Magdalena is a Colorado native from Denver who is currently a student at Red Rocks Community College (RRCC). Before she attended RRCC, she was a student at 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, and particularly math, developed. From here, Magdalena developed a more specific interest in environmental engineering as a way to keep her work terrestrial and closer to home. She hopes to explore the way our infrastructure can adapt to the changing world and work on projects that are more proactive in their approach to these changes rather than reactive.

Magdalena will finish community college this fall and transfer to the University of Minnesota to finish her bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering.

View Magdalena's poster and poster presentation.