This Fall, George Vetushko, (re)joins our group as graduate student to complete a master in EPSS. George received his Bachelor of Science in Astrobiology at UCLA. While at UCLA as an undergraduate student, George led an undergraduate team of students in modeling Southern Californian fugacious coastal lagoon environments from aerial data and in-field sampling supervised by Dr. Dave Jacobs (EEB). He further completed a research-oriented course in radar astronomy alongside Dr. Jean-Luc Margot (EPSS) parsing through potential technosignatures from SETI data and classifying patterns of radiointerference. In our group, George completed a senior undergraduate thesis on the coupling of anaerobic oxidation of methane to nitrate reduction in a Southern California wetland. George further supported our group as undergraduate researcher in the lab and onboard the RV Atlantis during our 2023 expedition to the Santa Barbara Basin.

For his graduate studies in our group, George plans to continue his work on climate-change related trends in the coupling of anaerobic oxidation of methane to nitrate reduction in coastal wetland environments.