McKenna Alden

• Assists in wetland delineations according to the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) 1987 delineation manual and associated regional supplements
• Uses identification of hydric soils, wetland plants, and hydrology in wetland delineations.
• Assists in wetland permitting through the USACE and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA)
• Assists in preparing categorical exclusion documents for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process.
• Uses maps and other geographical data in support of wetland delineations and NEPA documents.

• Assistant to Dr. Adam Skarke, learning methods of seafloor mapping, processed water column data

• Compiled seafloor images in WebODM to create a map of benthic environment

• Analyzed water column data for potential methane seep sites

• Presented research poster, High-Resolution Mapping of Deep-Sea Benthic Environments Through Orthorectification of Oblique ROV Video Data, at the Fall 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference

• Helped update Repertorium Chronicarum, Mississippi State's medieval manuscript database by finding the location of over 9,000 manuscripts in different libraries
• Used Microsoft Excel to enter individual manuscript data such as library location and digital image link.