Summer Internship Program @ UCSC
Through this experience, in addition to learning about Ocean Science, I developed strong data analysis skills, learnt how to extract insights from large-scale datasets and how to communicate scientific ideas and engage in meaningful discourse. The resultant research was accepted and I got to present it as part of the American Geophysical Union conference (AGU '24) in Washington, D.C., last December.
To further build my knowledge and experience college level scientific research, last summer, I worked under Dr. Daniel Gaskell at the University of California, Santa Cruz to track fluctuations in ocean carbon over 5 million years by analyzing data on chemical composition of ocean sediment cores and correlated it with atmospheric carbon.
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We created a database of global XRF data of ocean sediment cores, constructed a method to calculate the Calcium Carbonate percentage of the seafloor using XRF data, used regression models to calculate changes in the Carbonate Compensation Depth in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and hypothesized an active Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Mid-Pliocene based on Carbonate Compensation Depth trends in the North Pacific.
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