I am going into my second year of the Master’s of Natural Resources program at Oregon State University. I graduated in 2020 with my Honors Bachelor’s of Physics at Oregon State as well where I competed a undergraduate thesis project under Anne Tréhu, one of the lead PIs on this project. My thesis projected consisted on data from the Cascadia Subduction Zone in 2012 that was collected in a similar matter to this project, just on a smaller scale. During my first year of grad school, I also completed a GIS graduate certificate that included the opportunity of an internship. For my internship, I made maps in ArcGIS for the Cascadia project. I plotted potential site locations and sifted through data that told us what little-known roads were available to drive on and what obstacles we might face, such as gates and 4-wheel-drive-only roads. I also got the opportunity to participate in the recovery phase for the nodes in the field.