Sam Bayne is a senior undergraduate student pursuing a BS in Environmental Soil and Water Sciences and a minor in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He started at the CRC as a Sustainable Development Intern in 2024 working on a project seeking to understand the structure of farmland protection in West Virginia in pursuit of a West Virginia Agrarian Commons. Now, as an Undergraduate Research Assistant, he is using GIS to create a water security assessment tool called "Waterlink".