Project Title: When North Goes South: Investigation of Selected Geomagnetic Variations in Boulder, Colorado.

Mentors: Rick Saltus, Neesha Schnepf, and Manoj Nair, CIRES/NOAA/NCEI

Bio: Nelson is originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia. He currently lives in Lakewood, Colorado, on an acre farm where he grows food, herbs and flowers for his local community. Throughout Nelson’s life, he has tried to find ways to help lower income and marginalized communities. Through growing food, he is a part of the local sustainable food movement to help everyone have access to healthy and nutritious produce.

Currently, Nelson attends Front Range Community College in Westminster, Colorado. He has plans to attend the Colorado School of Mines, at which he plans to get degrees in Environmental and Geological Engineering with a concentration in soil and hydrological remediation. Through this, he plans to be on the forefront of helping with the transition to a more sustainable and regenerative way of life throughout the state of Colorado and the world. He is currently working at NOAA with the GeoMag team to study the effects of geomagnetic fields.

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