Mallory Barkdull
Mallory worked as a SURF student, helping to perform a field experiment in Lake Michigan, near Michigan City, IN, to quantify currents and temperatures during the stratified period. She also ran our Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to survey local lakes and performed 1-D lake modeling. After graduating with a B.S. from Virginia Tech, Mallory completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University, researching the hydrodynamics of coral reefs, and went on join the engineering faculty at Laney College in Oakland, CA, where she is now the Department Chair.