Kaylyn K. Bautista is a recent graduate from the Water and Environmental Research Institute at the University of Guam. Although her graduate studies emphasized karst hydrology, she had the fortunate opportunity to collaborate on projects in Guam involving field work on well water chemistry and instrumentation, coastal discharge site documentation - springs, fractures, and caves, contact spring instrumentation, and cave surveying and mapping. She resides in Guam with her husband, John, and three daughters.