During the final year of my undergraduate career at George Mason University, I was mentored by the wonderful Dr. Linda Hinnov to conduct geodetic research. This research was supported by a grant awarded to me by the Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities and Research (OSCAR) at George Mason University.

 

As a student, I thirsted to know all about the different subfields of the geosciences, and at the time, geophysics was not offered as a class. This was my way of learning of a small subsection of geophysics, along with coding on Matlab, and some statistics!

With Dr. Hinnov's help, I was able to learn the foundations of geodesy via books and articles, and the Matlab language -- my first time learning to code!
 

My research involved empirically confirming Earth tidal frequencies that were previously discovered through quantitative geodetic calculations: Just like with oceanic tides, the Earth bulges in response to the gravitational pull of the Moon, Sun and other astronomical bodies, but in a much smaller scale (mm's per day).