- Deepshikha Upadhyaysheher
- Graduate Student
Deep is a graduate student here at UCLA, studying geochemistry. Her research studies the connection between hominin evolution, climate, and landscape changes within East Africa using geochemistry. She collaborates with several independent researchers on both a national and international level and is part of the Hominin Sites Paleolakes Drilling Project. She is also Director of Communications for Environmental Science without Borders, a program with CDLS focusing on forging academic and personal connections between our peers, both nationally and internationally.
Her other interests lie in painting, reading fiction, mooching off of her brother’s Steam account for his RPGs, botany, and generally spending any amount of time in nature. She is also a devoted fan of Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” series, and is always in the mood to sit around a campfire telling scary stories.