WALLNER, CASSIE
Student SIO - MAS
Cassie graduated from UCSD in Spring 2024 with a Bachelors of Science in Marine Biology and a minor in Climate Change Studies. During her undergraduate career, she received Provost Honors all four years and maintained a GPA of 3.87. Cassie joined the Phi Sigma Rho STEM Sorority in 2021 and served as their Vice President of Internal Programming for two years, gaining experience in organizing large private events. She volunteered in the Aburto Lab from 2022-2024 and worked on numerous projects focused on ecosystem conservation, including a systematic literature review focused on climate change solutions for the Gulf of California in 2023. Cassie is currently heading her own project focused on water pollution across the California-Mexico border, with hopes to publish by the end of Summer 2024. She is very much looking forward to making connections with our guest lecturers and to starting some internship positions in law office settings this year. Cassie is extremely excited to continue pursuing a career as an environmental lawyer focused on halting toxic pollution, restoring damaged ecosystems, and progressing climate change solutions, with the hope to someday work on a global scale. She plans to focus on ocean ecosystems as she views them to be the Earth’s most valuable resource and to be the global resource that requires the most protection.