Education:
University of California, Santa Cruz - PhD Earth Sciences (2024 - Present)
University of California, Los Angeles - B.S. Geology, minor Conservation Biology (2019-2023)
Department Honors
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Publications and Presentations:
Microbial Iodate Reduction coupled with Sulfur Oxidation in Aquatic Environments; Poster
Holzmann, Tessa; Yousavich, D.; Treude, T..
American Geophysical Union (AGU) December 2023
Session: Trace Element Biogeochemical Cycling and Environmental Consequences II
Sensorweb Systems for Global High-Resolution Monitoring of Environmental Phenomena Journal for Aerospace Information Systems; Paper (peer-reviewed)
Kangaslahti, A.; Mason, J.; Swope, J.; Holzmann, Tessa; Davies, A.; Chien, S.; Harrison, T.; & Walter, J.
Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (JAIS) June 2024
Fully Automated Volcano Monitoring and Tasking with Planet SkySat Constellation: Results from a Year of Operations; Oral Presentation & Conference Paper.
Mason, J.; Holzmann, Tessa.; Swope, J.; Davies, A.; Chien, S.; Mueting, J.; Harrison, T.; Shah, V.; & Walter, J.
International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) July 2023
Session: TU4.R15: Earth Observation Technologies for Disaster Risk Management II
Research:
Paul Koch Lab
PhD Student (09/2024 - Present) UC Santa Cruz
Pedro Monarrez Paleobiology Lab
Lab Assistant (10/2023 - 07/2024) UCLA
Assisted on NSF-funded study of delayed ecosystem recovery from cryptic degassing following large province volcanism
Examined changes in thousands of species' ecospace utilization through extinction events through literature review and fossil analysis
Tina Treude Geochemistry & Marine Microbiology Lab
Undergraduate Student Researcher (06/2021 - 09/2023) UCLA
Assisted in fieldwork in Carpinteria salt marshes and Marina Del Rey; facilitated sample collection and analysis on research cruises. Worked with the lab group to measure nutrient compositions of collected deep-sea sediment cores.
Wrote research proposals resulting in a $7,700 grant for research in aquatic microbial iodate reduction by sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. Facilitated developing methods, fieldwork, sample collection, and analysis for this project. Results appeared AGU 2023.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Internship (06/2022 - 09/2022)
Applied research project improving Volcano Sensor Web thermal classifiers under the NASA Artificial Intelligence Group. I used QGIS, Python, and ArcGIS to isolate hot pixels from satellite data in order to improve natural disaster response time.
Resulting code is running automated to remotely detect volcanic activity globally. Results appeared at IGARSS 2023.
Service:
Graduate Senate - Graduate Student Representative
(10/2024 - present) UCSC
Sit in on weekly meetings of graduate senate and provide student perspectives
Student Services Advisor
(08/2023 - 07/2024) UCLA
Doubled UCLA Earth Science major enrollment through active recruitment efforts
Organized and participated in K-12 outreach events
Bruin Dine Food Recovery Program
President (01/2020 - 07/2023) UCLA
Recovered more than 10,000 lbs of food that otherwise would've been thrown away by UCLA Dining and reserved it to the community free of charge
CalFresh EBT
Outreach Director (01/2021 - 07/2022)
Helped students enroll in federal food stamp programs (SNAP/EBT)
Awards:
Seed Funding Grant ($6,010) - “Unlocking Ancient Marine Ecosystem Structure and Evolution through Calcium Stable Isotopes” UCSC Division of Science; 2025
Student Research and Education Award ($1,000) - UCSC Institute of Marine Sciences; 2025
Waters Research Fund Grad Award ($1,250) - UCSC Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; 2025
Department Honors - UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, Space Sciences; 2023
Deane Oberste-Lehn Research Grant Recipient ($7,700) - Department of Earth, Planetary, Space Sciences; UCLA 2023
Horodyski Summer Field Award ($1,900) – Department of Earth, Planetary, Space Sciences; UCLA 2023
Deane Oberste-Lehn Academic Merit ($1,000) – Department of Earth, Planetary, Space Sciences; UCLA 2023
Foundation Scholar ($1,000) - Alpha Gamma Delta International; 2022
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