Andrew Budsock

Write monthly pieces on issues of the environment, sustainability, and society. Conduct interviews with global leaders in environmental and design fields.

Trained in dendrometers installation at El Verde Research Station Installed 1600 dendrometers in eight forest reserves across the island Learned tropical forest tree species identification

Learned the NCAR Command Language (NCL) programming language (http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/) Used NCL to analyze data from 100+ tropical radiosonde stations, CMIP5 climate models, NCEP/NCAR reanalysis, and global satellite data in a research project on the Madden-Julian Oscillation, an intraseasonal oscillation in tropical cloudiness and winds Ran multiple simulations on a Lagrangian Atmospheric Model for Dr. Patrick Haertel of Yale University and analyzed results using the awk programming language

Developed the concept for a national environmental service society Developed a national peer advisory program to help link high school students with STEM/ eSTEM interests with like-minded college students Created and designed a twitter page for the peer advisory program

Examined the effects of flooding on the disease pathway of Opisthorchis viverrini in Khon Kaen Province, Thailand Conducted a literature review on the effects of flooding on disease pathways Evaluated IPCC reports Developed a causal model of the effects of anthropogenic climate change and flooding on the disease pathway Opisthorchis viverrini Presented research at the STEER capstone symposium at UC Davis and UC Berkele

Forest Ecology and German Language

Tropical Forest Ecology