Maxine Paul
Submitted by vanderbi on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 8:45pm
Year:
2009
Mentor:
Litvak, Marcy Home Institution:
Columbia University
Major:
Environmental Science
Maxine Paul graduated from Columbia University in 2010 with a degree in Environmental Science and her thesis was an expanded version of her REU project. Her summer 2009 research project was: "Quantifying biome specific relationships and monsoon event responses using LAI (leaf area index), NDVI (normalized differences vegetation index) PRI (photochemical radiation index) in grassland and shrubland ecosystems at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge". Maxine's mentor was University of New Mexico Department of Biology Associate Professor Marcy Litvak.
She continued research in remote sensing of ecosystems at Archbold Biological Station in Florida as an intern after graduation and is now the Preservation Associate at Environment New Mexico, working for clean air, clean water, and open spaces.
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