Lauren Dennis
Lauren Dennis is a first year PhD student in the Water Resources Engineering Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State. Prior to entering the Water Resources Engineering Program, she studied methane emissions from potential stray gas migration in an area of shale gas development in Northeastern Pennsylvania and received a master’s degree in Meteorology and Atmospheric Science from Penn State. She received a BS in Environmental Science and a BA in Political Science from the University of New Mexico. Her educational path has been motivated by the desire to help communities make strategic environmental decisions, and her PhD studies will focus on topics within the Food-Energy-Water nexus.