Crystal is an environmental science major at Colorado Mesa University who began working at EDS as an intern conducting research on the use of dehydrated food waste and biochar as soil amendments and confirming the use of dehydrated food waste as a suitable feedstock for vermicomposting. This latter effort proved to be valuable for EDS as well as regional vermicomposting operations who had found that using raw food waste was problematic for the end product. Crystal now works as a field technician and data gathering assistant for the company.