Get excited for another Senior Spotlight! Arielle (she/her) is an environmental studies-chemistry major from San Diego, California. Her thesis focuses on chemical tracers found in ice cores from southwest Canada that can help us better understand the history of forest fires in the area over the past 1000 years. Arielle is using different data analysis techniques to map out the fire coverage and analyze the history. Arielle is glad to have chosen an interdisciplinary major that allows her so many opportunities to apply different learning methods to a variety of fields. From an inorganic chemistry course to a class on comparative politics, she enjoys integrating subjects to gain an even deeper understanding of the issue as a whole. Arielle’s thesis advisor is Professor Mackenzie Grieman. Mackenzie has done a lot of work with ice cores, including traveling with a research team to Antarctica to take and analyze a sample. Arielle is grateful for Mackenzie’s vast and detailed knowledge a...