Congratulations Chance!

Chance Carafice earned 2^nd place at the 27th annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, held on March 8, 2022 in the category of “Earth and Beyond” for his project, “Applying Machine Learning to Create Timeseries Record of Changes in Tropical Glacier Environments.” Chance, an Engineering Physics/Aerospace Engineering student, has been working with the Glacier Environmental Change group at BPCRC under the close guidance and support of Forrest Schoessow to develop a Random Forest algorithm to classify glaciers, debris cover, and lakes in the Cordillera Blanca using satellite images processed with cloud computing. This also comprises his undergraduate thesis, co-advised by Bryan Mark and John Horack. Chance is a member of "Team MARMOT” – Machine-learning Algorithms for Remote Multi-sensor Observational Timeseries – that includes OSU Geography PhD (2020) Rohit Mukherjee. Chance is also the 2021 recipient of the G. McKenzie & H. Brecher Undergraduate Scholarship, using those funds to further his engineering capstone project entitled, "Mountain Drone Team Bofedales Drone Development."