Meet the 2024 SURF Cohort

Roya Akrami
Mentor:
Yamuna Phal
Project Title:
LIDAR Car Spatial Mapping
JACK CANONICO
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JAMES CLEMSON
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Bia Villas Bôas
Project Title:
Surfing the Physics of Ocean Waves

JIMENA GARCIAPRIETO
Mentor:
Richard Kranhenbuhl
Project Title:
UAV/DRONE-BASED AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY PLANNING AND TRAINING FOR ORPHANED WELL DETECTION
JOSHUA GRUBA
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LUCAS HOLT
Mentor:
Ben Hills
Project Title:
Radar Polarimetry in Glaciology

KALI KISOR
Mentor:
Stephanie Kwon, Michelle Nolen
Project Title:
Converting Solar Energy to Fuels and Chemicals

GRACE MILLS
Mentor:
Christopher Higgins
Project Title:
Field Sampling and Analysis for PFASs in the State of Colorado

SAMUEL ORGELDINGER
Mentor:
Xiaoli Zhang
Project Title:
Designing a Lightweight and Dexterous Prosthetic Hand for EMG Control

ELIZA ROSS
Mentor:
Piret Plink-Bjorklund, Molly O’Halloran
Project Title:
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
Mentor:
Anuj Chauhan
Project Title:
GOLD NANOPARTICLE (GNP) LOADED CONTACT LENSES FOR TREATING DRY EYES

ISA WATKINS
Mentor:
Tzahi Cath, Elliese Wright
Project Title:
Improving Process Control of a Demonstration Scale Direct Potable Reuse System

Jason balke
Mentor:
Carolyn Koh
Project Title:
Interfacial Studies for Hydrate Control in Energy & CCS Applications

LIAM CARROLL
Mentor:
Andrew Herring
Project Title:
Ionomer-Based Water Electrolysis

ANNE MARIE COVLIN
Mentor:
Lori Tunstall
Project Title:
Development of Carbon Neutral Concrete with Biochar

JORDAN ESTRDIGE
Mentor:
Ramya Kumar, Jessica Lawson
Project Title:
Synthesis and Characterization of A Statistical Copolymer Library for Synthetic Gene Delivery Systems

LUCY GILBERT-FAGEN
Mentor:
Dean Nieusma
Project Title:
EXPLORATIONS OF ENGINEERING IDENTITY FORMATION AND GENDER EXPRESSION

QUINN HARRAND
Mentor:
Anuj Chauhan
Project Title:
Gold Nanoparticle (GNP) Loaded Contact Lenses for Treating Dry Eyes

Caroline hufnagel
Mentor:
Colin Wolden
Project Title:
Hydrogen Separation in Fusion Energy Systems using Metal Foil Pumps

DYLAN KUIKEN
Mentor:
Svitlana Pylypenko
Project Title:
Investigation of Catalyst Layer Degradation with X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

MARIANNA MOREAU
Mentor:
Adrianne Kroepsch
Project Title:
Adventures in Western Water Management
NOAH PALERMO
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MARCO SALGADO
Mentor:
Andrew Herring
Project Title:
Ionomer Interactions for Water Electrolysis

TIMOTHY STRAWN
Mentor:
Michael Wakin
Project Title:
Earth, Energy, & Environment STEM Kits

ANNA WILLIAMS
Mentor:
Adrianne Kroepsch, Ellie Andrews
Project Title:
Western Water Management

ETHAN BONTRAGER
Mentor:
Anna Staerz
Project Title:
Elucidating the Degradation Mechanism in Heritage Steel

MEGHAN CASTRO
Mentor:
Neil Sullivan
Project Title:
Low-Carbon Electricity Generation with Start-Of-The-Art Fuel Cells

DANIEL DIAZ REYES
Mentor:
Neil Sullivan
Project Title:
LOW-CARBON ELECTRICITY GENERATION WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART FUEL CELLS

EMMA GJESTER
Mentor:
Michael McGuirk, Hannah Martin
Project Title:
Chalcogen-Bonded Organic Molecular Semiconductors

ROSS HODSON
Mentor:
George Kontoudis
Project Title:
Environmental Monitoring with Probabilistic Machine Learning Using a Swarm of Drones

MAX KETTER
Mentor:
Kelsey Fulton
Project Title:
Understanding the features of various (in)secure StackOverflow snippets

JUDE LOWE
Mentor:
Brandon Dugan
Project Title:
Biochar and Soil – Impacts on Hydraulic Conductivity and Biochar Mobility

ROSALIE Rauenzahn
Mentor:
Estelle Smith
Project Title:
Designing Online Spiritual Care Communities
MAVERICK SAVAGE
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EZRA TARANTO-CHACON
Mentor:
Atef Elsherbeni
Project Title:
Electromagnetic Simulations Using the Finite Difference Time-Domain

MIGUEL WILLS
Mentor:
Tom Williams
Project Title:
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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Kyra Frank
Physarum’s Quantum Dilemma: When Slime Molds Decide to Dodge the Magnet





























