Kinga Bihari

Kinga is a rising fourth year Environmental Studies major with a minor in Earth Science. Her interests lie in conservation and restoration, as well as the role carbon sequestration plays in climate mitigation strategies. She hopes to combine these two interests through climate-informed conservation/restoration strategies. Her past experiences include doing restoration in the San Marcos Foothills with Channel Island Restoration and working on Professor Pulver’s Egregious Polluters project, creating profiles on particularly polluting industrial facilities in order to identify why their pollution levels are so high. 

Over the summer, her fellowship with The Nature Conservancy focused on maintaining and strengthening biosecurity at the Channel Islands. She conducted a study on rat interactions with different types of scent lures in order to improve biosecurity measures TNC takes to protect the islands from rat invasions. Her previous work at the King Lab has primarily been doing carbonate analysis on soil samples from NCOS, but she's excited to be embarking on her own independent research project this fall. She will be studying variations in percent carbon, percent nitrogen and fiber in different plant species collected by Jesse Landesman at NCOS and COPR over the summer. When she's not in the lab she enjoys going to comedy shows, crafting and sunset walks at Devs.

In the Spring of 2024, Kinga graduated and is now heading off to the East Coast to start her career. Congrats!