Angela Kwon‘ 15

January 2013

Revegetation Procedures for Mine Waste Spills in Manila, Philippines

Angela Kwon‘ 15 is a Geology major with a minor in Environmental Studies. She is actively involved in the Chinese Student Association and the Korean Student Association here at Oberlin. Angela is excited to spend her winter term in the Philippines working at an Environment Monitoring lab in the National Institute of Geological Sciences at the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Science. She will explore alternative revegetation procedures in an area that was exposed to serious mine waste from a dam which leaked 20.6 tons of mine tailing– one of the worst mining disasters in the past two decades. She will assist the research team at the University by immersing herself in the different studies they are conducting and taking part in the field surveys the team will perform. She looks forward to incorporating her experience abroad in her daily life here at Oberlin.