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Statement of Purpose I am currently enrolled, as a Junior, at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) working towards my Bachelors degree, with a major in geology. Though I have many interests outside this disciplines such as, biology, ecology, anthropology, and literature, I have found that my true fascination is in the workings of the earth more so than with its inhabitant. The questions of how and why have always plagued my mind rather than who and where. Most recently I was able to take part in a summer internship with the Southern California Earthquake Center durring which i worked on a project team based out of the Arizona State Active tectonics reasearch department . My Project with this organization was based on the emerging Light detection and Ranging (LiDaR) Technology which i believe will soon become powerful tool for the sciences. My research, proformed under the direction of my summer mentor Dr. J Ramon Arrowsmith, was a test for the versitility and availibility of the tectnoloogy, and the newly constructed cyberstructure that will soon be used to distribute the archive LiDaR data sets. During my freshmen year I joined the office of naval research (ONR) programl. In the ONR program student members are arranged into groups based on their fields of study to take on the task of a research project under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Last semester my research team worked with the forcasting and propogation of Iceberg in the north atlantic. by studying the geomorphology of there parent fissures we were able to form a accurate prediction model for the size and geometry of potential calving events. Before coming to ECSU I attended a two year program through the ECPI College of technology. At ECPI, I studied electrical engineering and computer networking. Using Microsoft application prior to windows XP, I learned to configure and connect computers into LAN and internet based networks. The majority of the program at ECPI was devoted to electrical design and repair of both analog and digital circuitry to the component level. My GPA throughout this program was 3.43. Upon completion of the program, I received an AAS in biomedical Instrumentation, and was certified by the Electronics Technicians Association (ETA) as a journeyman technician. I was the only member of my graduating class to receive the journeyman's certificate and one of only four to receive certification. This mixed background of technical skill and aptitude in research has aided me throughout my college experience, but it is my love of Knowledge and belief in the diversity of the mind that will allow me to grow and succeed in the scolatic world. |