Melinda Lin
Melinda Lin is from Portland, OR, and intends to major in statistics at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. As the water subteam’s co-lead this year, she is installing a sap flow sensor at the Cayuga Nature Center and intends to quantify atmospheric cooling using the sensor data. Her past work on the team includes identifying harmful algae bloom databases and parameters for predicting blooms. Outside of GeoData, she researched rising toxicity in the Finger Lakes under the Richardson Lab of Applied Microbiology.