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From our tree to yours! Wishing you comfort, gifts, and blessings this holiday season!

AUTUMN NEWSLETTER is OUT!

Join us in celebrating Ashley Green, who successfully defended her dissertation on August 26 at UC Irvine! Her groundbreaking work, “Advancing Wastewater-Based Surveillance through Methods Optimization, Target Refinement, and Spatiotemporal Insights,” has earned her the well-deserved title of Dr. Green! 👏🎓

NEXT: We’re thrilled to share our first co-authored paper with a Belizean scholar, Anthony Mai Jr. at BSWaMA! 🎉 The article, “Life cycle assessment of polylactic acid municipal waste disposal in Belize,” explores sustainable waste management practices in collaboration with BSWaMA and joins Environmental Research Letters: Focus on Innovation in Environmental Engineering for Community Engaged Research.

A huge congratulations to Hobbs Lab’s new PhD student, Maya El-Ajouz, for leading this work to publication 👏 and to all co-authors for their brilliance and dedication!

Belize has been an incredible partner in research, and this marks just the beginning of continued collaboration in sustainability and community-engaged environmental engineering 🌎✨

Stop your scroll!! Before you breeze past, give a solid round of applause and leave a CONGRATS 🎉 below to high school graduate and BioGal, Tyisha Salazar 🎓👏🏾🎓👏🏾 Tyisha's journey exemplifies the power of determination, as she consistently maintained high academic standards while engaging in community service and sustainability projects. Her achievement is not just a personal triumph but also a landmark moment for BioGals, proving the transformative potential of long-term educational support. 🍃🌎✨

Let's Keep This Going! 🍃✨🌎

Don't you forget it 💪💪... Happy International Women's Day! 💚

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We are wishing everyone a wonderful day of giving thanks! 🙏 We have had a year to be thankful for! To all the friends we have made, our summer trip to Belize, to all that we have accomplished in the past and to all the WINS we will have in the future! Cheers to Thanksgiving 2024 🍃✨ What are you thankful for? Write in the comments below 🎓 We want to hear from you!

Our summer was a BLAST!! Sustainability Experience 2024 in Belize 🔬🫶🍃🌞

We're here for the future and that continues with teaching children!! The kids are bright and during our Sustainability Experience in Belize, we connected them with STEM principles and practices. Together we created Solar Cars! Look at those smiling faces 😃🍃🔬🌎

We want to take a moment to celebrate the views Belize gave us during our Sustainability Experience 2024. The textures, the colours, the lights and the sights! Follow us all week to see more views from our trip!

When BioGals says "Go have fun" we mean it! We are a group of magnificent Women of Color living out our best life in Belize, where the weather stayed wonderful and the food nourished us! Thank you Belize we are grateful

The Students are in the lab!! Taking samples from the Sittee River to conduct environmental research, we studied the biodiversity in Belize. Thank you UCI School of Engineering for supporting student research! 🔬🍃🎓