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Do you hate trash? Do you love free trips to the beach? It’s like we read your mind!
Hop on our beach cleanup hike with the amazing AND wonderful Kelly Sanders! We will be hitting the bike path starting in Marina Del Rey and traversing 3 miles on the concrete and sand. Join Peaks in giving back to our beautiful LA terrain while people watching and competing for who can pick up the most trash!
PACKING LIST:
Sunscreen!!!
H20
Sneakers/comfortable closed toed shoes
Hand sanitizer (optional)
Sunglasses (optional)
Waivers
WE WILL PROVIDE:
Plastic gloves
Trash bags
More hand sanitizer
PROFESSOR: KELLY SANDERS
SCHOOL: Viterbi
DEPARTMENT: Environmental Engineering
RATE MY PROFESSOR: "On top of giving awesome lectures, she genuinely cares about her students. I couldn’t recommend a class or professor more.”
Dr. Kelly Twomey Sanders is an Associate Professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research aims to ease tensions between human and natural systems, with an emphasis on reducing the environmental impacts of providing energy and water services and anticipating the risks that climate extremes impose on energy systems. She has authored more than two dozen publications and has given dozens of invited talks on topics at the intersection of engineering, science, and policy. Sanders has been recognized in Forbes’ 30 Under 30: Today’s Disruptors and Tomorrow’s Brightest Stars and MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 for her contributions to the energy field. In 2019, she was granted an NSF Early CAREER award. Her research and commentary have been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and Scientific American.
Ask her for some energy-related party conversation starters or about her dog Joules!
PEAK: SOUTH BAY BIKE TRAIL (NOT THE WHOLE THING I PROMISE)
DIFFICULTY: 1/5
SCENERY: The South Bay Bike Path cuts through some of LA’s most iconic beaches. Our trip will start in Marina Del Rey and we will make our way along the coast, in one of Peaks and Professors’ first cleanup hikes! Join us for beautiful ocean views, a stroll along the sand, and a chance to give back to the natural environment. Note: It is a bike path, but we will be walking!
FUN FACT: The full South Bay Bike Path goes all the way from the Pacific Palisades to Torrance!
TRIP LEAD: Eliza
TRIP LEAD: Ciara
will pet at least one dog on every Peaks trip
Contact Ciara: ciaraand@usc.edu (hyperlinked!)
Read Ciara’s bio here. (hyperlinked!)