Undergraduates get a taste for faculty research
This summer, 19 undergraduate students are participating in faculty research projects through the Stanford Earth Summer Undergraduate Research program.
By Kathleen J. Sullivan
Rising sophomore Claire Morton is helping the Lobell Lab investigate the impact of agricultural soil quality on children’s health and nutrition in India by collecting and assembling data, creating maps and performing statistical analyses.
Emily Lacroix, a PhD candidate in Earth system science in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences (left), and Gabby Barratt Heitmann, a rising sophomore, hold soil samples from North Dakota that Lacroix collected for a research project designed to confirm the presence of anoxic microsites in agricultural soil. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead)