I completed my B.S. in Forest Operations in the fall of 2014 at Cal Poly Humboldt. My academic interests include natural resource planning and management, specifically with regard to commercial timber harvesting. I began my work with the Forest Operations Team during my senior year at Humboldt. My work began in the summer of 2014, working with Green Diamond Resource Company and the U.S. Department of Energy in an effort to determine how to best utilize commercial timber harvest residues for bioenergy production. After becoming deeply involved in this research work in the following year, I decided that pursuing a graduate degree was something that I wanted to do. Consequently, I am now continuing my academic career and earning a M.S. in Forest Operations with a focus on GIS.