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Summer Research Internship @ Stanford

This summer, I was fortunate to get selected for a research internship at the Terrestrial Carbon Cycling Group at Stanford’s School of Sustainability, under Dr. Alison Hoyt.

I worked on tracking changes in the soil carbon dynamics of Mangrove sites in Ecuador across a disturbance gradient. Specifically, I conducted Loss on Ignition Testing to analyse the changes in unstable to stable carbon ratios across sites and used data analysis techniques to support the hypothesis that the ration of unstable to stable carbon decreases following mangrove forest degradation. The resulting research was accepted for presentation at AsiaFlux Conference 2025 in Indonesia.