Greenawalt, who returned from a research trip to the Falkland Islands with Ph.D. student Dulcinea Groff in late January, is doing just that as an undergraduate researcher.  On the Falkland Islands — a 4,700-square-mile archipelago off the coast of South America — she collected soil samples around tussac (tussock) grass.  Groff examines sediment and peat cores that read more SOE EES undergrad Kayla Greenawalt makes case for protecting the environment