Research
Research projects I have been a part of and contributed to.
Summer 2024
In the summer of 2024, I was part of the first cohort of VERITAS-SOAR interns as part of a collaboration between the VERITAS team and Pasadena City College. My mentor for the summer was Dr. Suzanne E. Smrekar, Principal Investigator of VERITAS, and Dr. Anna Gülcher, post-doc at NASA/JPL-Caltech. For 8 weeks, my fellow intern Sylvia Mendoza and I engaged in planetary research on-site at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Our shared project involved preparing training sets for the machine learning model in preparation for the VERITAS mission. The training sets will help the machine learning model to accurately and efficiently identify surface geological features on Venus. We also had individual projects focused on our field of study. I researched potential mechanisms for the formation of wrinkle ridges on Venus to determine whether or not wrinkle ridges could be a potential site of recent/current geologic activity on Venus. I will be continuing my internship with NASA/JPL-Caltech as a part-time intern to continue with data analysis and interpreting my findings.
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The internship culminated with a presentation and two poster sessions: one poster session took place at Pasadena City College and the second poster session will take place at GSA Connects 2024 in Anaheim, CA.
Me, on the left, posing next to my research poster with my mentor, Dr. Suzanne Smrekar, on the right. This was taken 9/5/2024 at Pasadena City College during the Summer Research Poster Session.
My research poster titled: Exploring Mechanism in Wrinkle Ridge Formation on Venus and Application of Machine Learning in Mapping Wrinkle Ridges. My internship was sponsored by JPL/NASA-Caltech and Pasadena City College.