"If you're interested in any kind of modeling, the Center for Computational Research here has fantastic resources. Most other places just aren't going to have anything as good."
Shawn worked as a software engineer at an IT company for four years after college before the pure excitement of the work wore off, and he started to wonder what else he could do with his software background. He was interested in environmental matters, so he found his way to CSEE's Alan Rabideau and asked, "What kind of environmental work can a software engineer do?"
Shawn is now an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) fellow, three years into his Ph.D. program, doing computer models of the fate and transport of contaminants in groundwater. His dissertation will be on some problems in the general area of groundwater calibration. His most recent fieldwork was in Trout Lake, Wisconsin, where he mapped lake elevations with real-time kinematic GPS. He plans to pursue a research career on an academic faculty.
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Shawn Matott