I am originally from Kings Beach, Ca on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, and have just graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a B.S. in Mathematics and a minor in French. For the next two years I will be studying Applied Mathematics at Cambridge University in England on a Marshall Scholarship. This last year I completed an undergraduate research project (called a trident project) with my advisors Reza Malek-Madani and Sonia Garcia that examined the Gray-Scott Model of Morphogenesis based on Turings original morphogenesis theory. We used galerkin Methods implemented in Matlab and checked by my advisors in Mathematica to simulate solutions of the reaction-diffusion equation model and were able to simulate several nonhomogeneous steady states and periodic solutions of the model in two dimensions. I am interested in pattern formation and mathematical modelling as well as taking advantgage of modern computing power to give us insight on complex behavior. I am an Ensign in the U.S. Navy in the Surface warfare community, and am also interested in applying the principles of complexity in leadership situations to get organizations to self organize towards a common purpose.