About Me

Hello! I'm Cassie, a recent graduate from Northwestern University interested in understanding how our built and natural environments influence health and wellbeing. Specifically, I am passionate about exploring how climate resiliency initiatives can enhance public health outcomes.

I aim to integrate geospatial and machine learning techniques with laboratory analysis of biomarkers to understand how our everyday environments impact growth and development, aging, and overall wellbeing.

Currently, I am working as a Research Study Assistant at the Laboratory for Human Biology Research and the Horton Research Group at Northwestern University. My work involves testing various field-friendly capillary blood collection devices to assess biomarkers of inflammation and exploring how walking in built and natural environments impacts cardiometabolic outcomes in pre-diabetic individuals.

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Research Projects in the Works

  1. Dam-induced displacement and disruption are associated with cortisol concentration and patterns of diurnal variation
    • Thwake Multipurpose Dam
  2. Empirical testing of the role of greenspace in social cohesion
    • Study of Active Neighborhoods in Detroit
  3. Evanston Neighborhood Community Relationships and the Environment
    • My senior thesis independent study!

Laboratory Methods Experience

  • Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) from dried blood spot (DBS) and saliva samples
  • Assessing variability and techniques to increase DBS sample quality

Explore More

Check out some of my work here!

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GIS

I work with QGIS and ArcGIS Pro. Some of my projects include urban greenspace planning and air quality interpolation.

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Data Science

I am familiar with data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, machine learning with tabular data, and data visualization in R.

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Side Quests

I occasionally code for fun, and I particularly enjoy making Shiny Apps. Check out some of my other endeavors here!

Questions? Interested in working together?