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October 13, 2020

Graduate Student Ara Metz is working with UNC’s Sharon Bywater-Reyes, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Environmental Geoscience, and Chelsie Romulo, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, GIS, and Sustainability on a research project from a one-year, $10,000 City of Boulder grant. The research will focus on the city’s extensive trails through the use of drones and ground data collection to better understand the level of erosion that’s occurring. Ara is assisted by an undergraduate student, Jennifer Rios, who is paid as a field assistant by the grant. Read more about the project in this article.