{"id":8,"date":"2025-10-07T18:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:02:47","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Me-on-waterfall-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Calleigh sitting on rock next to a waterfall in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. \" class=\"wp-image-10\" style=\"width:351px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Me-on-waterfall-edited.jpg 390w, https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Me-on-waterfall-edited-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Me-on-waterfall-edited-300x399.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My name is Calleigh (pronounced Callie), I\u2019m a senior Honors Earth and Environmental Science major at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. While I live in Virginia now, I grew up in the beautiful garden state of New Jersey, where my interactions with nature as a child drove my love for environmental science. Within environmental science my primary interest is the remediation of organic and inorganic pollutants using plants (phytoremediation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m currently conducting undergraduate research exploring the use of <em>Dipsastraea Speciosa<\/em> corals as climate proxies to better understand how El Nino Southern Oscillation events are changing in the Tropical Central Pacific. Through this, I have developed a deeper understanding of data analysis and scientific writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My interest in our planet\u2019s health is forever growing and expanding, driving my study of the sciences. To further my studies, I hope to attend graduate school for biogeochemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Calleigh (pronounced Callie), I\u2019m a senior Honors Earth and Environmental Science major at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. While I live in Virginia now, I grew up in the beautiful garden state of New Jersey, where my interactions with nature as a child drove my love for environmental science. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleighkeeley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}