Kara is a senior majoring in Earth Systems in the biosphere track. She grew up right outside of DC, but she loves traveling and exploring new places. She has spent time off-campus by studying at Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey the spring of her sophomore year and in Santiago, Chile the spring of her junior year. She has researched fertilizer application techniques in the sugar cane industry in Belize and has assisted with research on the geopolitical barriers to the creation of marine protected areas in Antarctica. She is spending the summer of 2015 being a teaching assistant for a high school marine ecology and environmental philosophy course in Florida. At Stanford, she is involved in various volunteering activities, and she loves to practice figure skating and aerial silks. She is very excited to be a student advisor this year!

Evan is an Earth Systems senior in the Biosphere track. Evan’s interests include running, goats, beekeeping, Seattle (his damp, green home), and every nerdy ecology subject, and he would be very happy to talk about any of these things. He is most passionate about plant ecology and conservation, which is what lead him to Earth Systems. At Stanford, he has worked as a docent at Jasper Ridge, studied Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, went to Australia with BOSP and researched plant-fungal interactions in a Malaysian Rainforest. Evan enjoys going to concerts and appreciating the varied and beautiful landscape of California. He is also a member of the Stanford Running Club, training for and running a marathon with them, and of the Chi Theta Chi co-operative house. Last summer, he travelled to Mexico with the Bio-Cultural Diversity Overseas Seminar and continued on to pursue research on community-managed forests in the state of Oaxaca.