Meet the 2024 SURF Cohort

Roya Akrami

 

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Yamuna Phal

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LIDAR Car Spatial Mapping

JACK CANONICO

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JAMES CLEMSON

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Bia Villas Bôas

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Surfing the Physics of Ocean Waves

CARSTEN ERLANDER

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JIMENA GARCIAPRIETO

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Richard Kranhenbuhl 

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UAV/DRONE-BASED AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY PLANNING AND TRAINING FOR ORPHANED WELL DETECTION 

JOSHUA GRUBA

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LUCAS HOLT

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Ben Hills

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Radar Polarimetry in Glaciology

KALI KISOR

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Stephanie Kwon, Michelle Nolen

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Converting Solar Energy to Fuels and Chemicals

GRACE MILLS

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Christopher Higgins

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Field Sampling and Analysis for PFASs in the State of Colorado

SAMUEL ORGELDINGER

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Xiaoli Zhang

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Designing a Lightweight and Dexterous Prosthetic Hand for EMG Control

ELIZA ROSS

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Piret Plink-Bjorklund, Molly O’Halloran

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Little crustaceans tell a big story: Crayfish burrows as a proxy for water table depth across the PETM

WAYNE SNODGRASS

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TIMOTHY THOMPSON

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Anuj Chauhan

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GOLD NANOPARTICLE (GNP) LOADED CONTACT LENSES FOR TREATING DRY EYES

ISA WATKINS

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Tzahi Cath, Elliese Wright

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Improving Process Control of a Demonstration Scale Direct Potable Reuse System

Jason balke

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Carolyn Koh

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Interfacial Studies for Hydrate Control in Energy & CCS Applications

LIAM CARROLL

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 Andrew Herring

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Ionomer-Based Water Electrolysis 

ANNE MARIE COVLIN

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Lori Tunstall

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Development of Carbon Neutral Concrete with Biochar

JORDAN ESTRDIGE

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Ramya Kumar, Jessica Lawson

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Synthesis and Characterization of A Statistical Copolymer Library for Synthetic Gene Delivery Systems

LUCY GILBERT-FAGEN

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Dean Nieusma

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EXPLORATIONS OF ENGINEERING IDENTITY FORMATION AND GENDER EXPRESSION

QUINN HARRAND

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Anuj Chauhan 

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Gold Nanoparticle (GNP) Loaded Contact Lenses for Treating Dry Eyes 

Caroline hufnagel

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Colin Wolden

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Hydrogen Separation in Fusion Energy Systems using Metal Foil Pumps

DYLAN KUIKEN

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Svitlana Pylypenko

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Investigation of Catalyst Layer Degradation with X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

MARIANNA MOREAU

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Adrianne Kroepsch

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Adventures in Western Water Management

NOAH PALERMO

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MARCO SALGADO

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Andrew Herring

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Ionomer Interactions for Water Electrolysis

TIMOTHY STRAWN

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Michael Wakin

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Earth, Energy, & Environment STEM Kits

TOWNES UHL

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ANNA WILLIAMS

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Adrianne Kroepsch, Ellie Andrews

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Western Water Management

ETHAN BONTRAGER

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Anna Staerz

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Elucidating the Degradation Mechanism in Heritage Steel

MEGHAN CASTRO

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Neil Sullivan

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Low-Carbon Electricity Generation with Start-Of-The-Art Fuel Cells

DANIEL DIAZ REYES

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Neil Sullivan

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LOW-CARBON ELECTRICITY GENERATION WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART FUEL CELLS

OWEN FARKAS

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EMMA GJESTER

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Michael McGuirk, Hannah Martin

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Chalcogen-Bonded Organic Molecular Semiconductors

ROSS HODSON

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George Kontoudis

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Environmental Monitoring with Probabilistic Machine Learning Using a Swarm of Drones

MAX KETTER

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 Kelsey Fulton

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Understanding the features of various (in)secure StackOverflow snippets

JUDE LOWE

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Brandon Dugan

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Biochar and Soil – Impacts on Hydraulic Conductivity and Biochar Mobility

AVA NORDGREN

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ROSALIE Rauenzahn

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Estelle Smith

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Designing Online Spiritual Care Communities

MAVERICK SAVAGE

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EZRA TARANTO-CHACON

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Atef Elsherbeni 

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Electromagnetic Simulations Using the Finite Difference Time-Domain

AIDEN WALLA

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MIGUEL WILLS

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Tom Williams

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Robotic interaction with migrants and unhoused members

ADDITIONAL SUMMER 2024 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

Veronica Masztalerz

Manipulating Chromatic Aberrations of the Eye through Spatial Light Modulators in an Adaptive Optics Visual Simulator

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Maya Maes-Johnson

Impacts of Dredging and Storm Events on Subaqueous Estuarine Dunes in Port Aransas, Texas

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Elijah Paiz, Remi Jones

Design and Development of a Human-like robot hand for grasping and in-hand manipulation 

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Colleen McCullough 

Social Implications of Critical Battery Minerals in the Idaho Cobalt Belt

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Camden Maestas

Field Sampling and Analysis for Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in the State of Colorado

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Caitlyn Castellion

Synthesis, characterization, and cytokine binding studies of differentially sulfated glycosaminoglycan-mimetic polymer brushes

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Alex Kleen

Influence of Outer Contour Processing Parameters in Laser Powder Bed Fusion 316L

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Adam Farren

From Pixels to Neutrons: Visualizing Photon Reconstruction

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Aaron Brucker

Analysis of Electrifying Off-Road Vehicles

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Kyra Frank

Physarum’s Quantum Dilemma: When Slime Molds Decide to Dodge the Magnet

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