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GHS alumni receives GSA Graduate Student Research Grant
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While in the Peace Corps. Nicky Arellano was able to interact and build connections with the people in Panama. This became one of several reasons she has chosen to do her graduate research in that region. (Contributed photo)
Coming from a small town in Texas, Lisabeth “Nicky” Arellano had a passion and followed it all the way to the University of Houston where she was awarded a graduate student research grant that will assist her in her climate research in Panama.
Arellano, a 2011 graduate of Graham High School and first year PhD student at the University of Houston, is pursuing geology and showing that anyone can find a passion and follow it. After graduating from GHS, she attended Baylor University before going to Oregon State to get her masters.
Arellano recently received a $2,500 grant from the Geological Society of America to help continue her research in Panama on stable water isotopes which help inform climate modeling.
“I use isotopes in the water, in precipitation specifically, to try and study the water cycle,” Arellano said. “They can be like tracers, like every new water in storage has a fingerprint. (...) I am hoping to work with climate models and incorporate these isotopes into those models and those models kind of predict how climate change might affect the weather cycle.”
For more information regarding this story, see the June 17 edition of The Graham Leader.
