Melissa Cobo's CAS Internship with Salt Lake City's USGS Utah Water Science Center

In the summer of 2021, CAS trainee Melissa Cobo interned with the USGS under the mentorships of: Ryan Rowland (Supervisory Hydrologist), Christine Rumsey (Hydrologist), and Hannah Mcilwain (Hydrologic Field Assistant).

While interning, Melissa organized existing data, prepared field work kits, measured density of water samples, and participated in field work on the Great Salt Lake. 

Melissa gained skills and experience in Phreeqc programming, field work and resource monitoring, density equipment manipulation, and sanitation procedures for research equipment kits during her internship.