Mayra is currently working on analyzing the relationships between chloride and specific conductance across diverse lake types in Minnesota.

She is looking into lake morphology (% urban land use, lake size, max depth) and how these covariates could potentially strengthen the relationship between chloride and our predictor variable, specific conductance.

With this research, she hopes to create an expression that will produce an accurate chloride concentration given specific conductance and significant covariates/predictors. This will be relevant for programs working to identify lakes that are nearing the maximum chloride limit and reduce chloride inputs to improve water quality in Minnesota and beyond.

Mayra recently joined the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (MW CASC) where she will begin to look at the effects of climate change on future precipitation and snowfall patterns in the Twin Cities.