Elliot Chang

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<span class="s1">Elliot Chang, a New York City native, graduated in the Spring 2016 with a Civil and Environmental Engineering degree and a Sustainable Energy certificate.</span>
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<span class="s1">Throughout his undergraduate education, Elliot has persisted in studying removal methods of volatile organic compounds that cause spectral interference in isotope ratio infrared spectrometry measurements of plant/soil waters. Supported by <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/pei/undergrads/pei-environmental-scholar/" target="_blank">Princeton Environmental Institute’s Smith-Newton Scholarship </a>(2014), he has collaborated with Picarro Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA), Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry (Berkeley, CA), and Princeton NMR Facilities (Princeton, NJ) in reaching his current solution. Elliot’s final work was <a href="http://caylor.eri.ucsb.edu/2016/02/elliot-changs-1st-paper-featured-on-the-cee-website/" target="_blank">published in RCMS in January 2016</a>, and the developed purification protocol is patent pending.</span>
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Elliot started his PhD at UC Berkeley in the Fall 2016, under <a href="https://nature.berkeley.edu/~lnlammers/index.html" target="_blank">Pr. Laura Lammers</a>.
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<span class="s1">When he is not working, Elliot is a concert composer. His most recent commissions include an orchestral work premiere by the Sinfonia Orchestra in Richardson Auditorium and a string orchestra piece to be premiered by the United Nations International School at Carnegie Hall in 2016.</span>
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The picture above shows Elliot and <a href="http://caylor.eri.ucsb.edu/portfolio-item/adam-wolf-postdoctoral-research-associate/" target="_blank">Adam</a> at the Silas Little Experimental Forest.
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