About LabRATS:

The Laboratory Resources, Advocates, and Teamwork for Sustainability (LabRATS) Program at UCSB assists researchers on campus in reducing their impact on the environment while also improving safety, encouraging good laboratory management practices, and promoting communication and resource sharing. Our program is uniquely prepared to adapt campus recycling, energy management, and sustainability practices to the unusual materials used and processes implemented in laboratories.

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Program Leaders:

Jewel Persad - jewel.persad@ucsb.edu

Intern:

LabRATS

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Henderson Vo

Laboratory and Office Sustainability Coordinator Intern

hendersonvo@ucsb.edu

 

Henderson acts as the Laboratory and Office Sustainability Coordinator Intern. He supports environmental impact assessment and assists with implementing sustainability initiatives in laboratories across campus. Before joining UCSB Sustainability, Henderson was a research assistant in the Bren School working on machine learning-based environmental data digitization. He also held positions both as a Bren Environmental Leadership Fellow and an Arnhold Environmental Fellow, modeling forest dynamics in India and landscape connectivity in Southern Africa. Henderson is an undergraduate student at UCSB studying Environmental Studies and Statistics & Data Science. In his free time, Henderson enjoys walking the bluffs of Isla Vista.