A flag-lowering ceremony will be held in front of the Luria Library at noon today for Aline Christina Martins, killed last Monday while snowboarding near Lake Tahoe.

“Her close friends remember Aline as being energetic, full of life and always looking for a new adventure. She loved living in Santa Barbara and attending SBCC,” wrote President Andreea Serban in a campus-wide e-mail released Friday.

Ski-patrol found Martins buried in a tree well roughly an hour after her brother reported her missing. Resuscitation proved unsuccessful.

It was first thought Martins died by suffocating on snow but a later autopsy revealed the cause of death to be hypothermia after getting separated from her party at the Dodge Ridge ski resort in Pinecrest, CA, according to the Tuolumne County Sheriffs Office.

Local media identified Martins, who was 19 years old, as having just become a U.S. citizen on Jan. 29.

The Serban e-mail went on to identify Martins as a freshman pursuing an educational goal in Infant/Toddler Development.

The family of Martins held a funeral service in their hometown of Pleasanton, CA last Saturday and ask donations be made to The Make-A-Wish Foundation in lieu of flowers.