Cara's senior thesis involved a detailed sedimentological analysis of the Xom Na formation in Vietnam to determine the extent of anoxia in a Devonian carbonate platform during the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction. Her work consisted of multiple analyses of an ultrapure carbonate and will help develop best practices for detecting anoxia in ultrapure carbonate systems. She is now an environmental scientist with Airbox America.
(B.S. 2023, Appalachian State University)