Ryan Thomas is a 22-year-old undergraduate environmental engineering student who is graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in April 2021 and passed the FE Environmental exam in December 2020. Upon graduation, he will start his master’s in civil engineering concentrated in water resources/environmental engineering at FAU. Ryan was born in Okinawa, Japan and has since lived in seven different states. After completing high school, Ryan volunteered with the Bahamas National Trust on Andros Island, Bahamas to survey the prosperity of the coral reefs, fish, and benthic organisms in the region. Ryan’s current career objective is to engineer sustainable systems which positively impact the environment and the people around it. His fields of interests include air pollution, carbon capture and sequestration, water treatment, solid/hazardous waste, pollution prevention and sustainability.