Alumni Memorial Scholars News & Updates

During my final winter break at Colgate, I decided to use the rest of my AMS funds to continue a research project I had worked on in the summer of 2021: attempting to quantify how light pollution and “skyglow” from nearby population centers impact the nesting success rates of sea turtles.

Since I was a kid, I loved to travel and see different parts of the world.

For my first AMS project, I decided to focus on continuing my education and training in the volunteer fire service.

I used my AMS grant funds to take part in a short abroad program in Reykjavik, Iceland, sponsored by The GREEN Program.

To investigate how public activity is impacted by limited daylight, we took photos in multiple public spaces around Reykjavik at different times of day and made a photobook to document our findings.

I used my AMS grant to attend a weeklong training, Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience, at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.

If you asked me what lies at the top of my bucket list at any point in my life, I would have immediately responded by saying “Seeing the Northern Lights”. Even after having the incredible experience of observing them, it remains #1 on that list. It seems that others shared the same sentiment because while I was abroad in Denmark in the fall, John Slater ’22, Matt Sampson ’23 and I decided to study light pollution in Fairbanks, Alaska within the context of the Northern Lights.

I utilized part of my AMS grant to attend the Deep Learning Summit hosted by Re-Work in San Francisco, February 17–18. The summit hosted talks by academics, researchers in the technology industry and engineers involved in the development, production and implementation of Deep Learning algorithms.

I spent the summer of 2021 exploring how working adults in English towns have reacted to the pandemic and what perceptions they hold about the impacts on themselves and their families.

Photogrammetry is the technique of obtaining measurements of an object using a series of photographs. The digital technique can be used to generate reliable 3D models. I wanted to learn more about photogrammetry as it is used in documenting archaeological finds and capturing underwater shipwrecks. Photogrammetry can be used to ensure certain vulnerable artifacts, such as a submerged merchant vessel, are recorded and can be studied even if the original model has succumbed to environmental degradation.