The following students have won awards or fellowships for their achievements: |
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Adele Lichtenberger: Received the U.S. Department of Energy's Global Change Education Program (GCEP) internship for the summer 2008. GCEP research encompasses a wide variety of study areas, including atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climatology, and terrestrial processes. Adele will be working in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State analyzing cloud and aerosol data from an aircraft campaign carried out in Oklahoma last year.
Adele was also awarded the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings (Hollings) scholarship. Ernest F. Hollings scholarship program is designed to increase undergraduate training in oceanic and atmospheric science, research, technology, and education and foster multidisciplinary training opportunities and increase public understanding and support for stewardship of the ocean and atmosphere and improve environmental literacy. The scholarship provides $8,000 of academic assistance for two years and a paid internship for summer 2009.
Adele is an undergraduate student working with Dr. Nicholas Meskhidze for improved understanding of aerosol-cloud interaction using remotely sensed data. |
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| Yiyi Wong: Congratulations to Yiyi for receiving the Fulbright Fellowship to China for 2008-2009. |
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| Jeff Bowman: Received a Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant (2008-2009). Jeff is working with Jim Hibbard on Neoproterozoic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Carolina terrane near the North Carolina-Virginia state line. |
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Matthew Johnson: First year MEAS graduate student was awarded the NC Space Grant Fellowship ($6000) for the 2008-2009 academic year. His research titled “Implementation of Dust Mineralogy and Sources into GEOS-Chem: Application for Iron Deposition in the Southern Oceans” is being conducted under supervision of Dr. Nicholas Meskhidze. In his project Matthew plans to update mineral dust source locations in Patagonia using satellite remotely sensed data. GEOS-Chem model with improved dust source regions and nested grid formulation will be used for better quantification of dust and iron deposition to the Southern Oceans and the role of South American dust in carbon sequestration and climate transitions.
NC Space Grant is a part of National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program established by U.S. Congress and implemented by NASA. This competitively awarded program selects awardees based on the quality of research proposals and academic achievements. |
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Brett Gantt: Received EPA's National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) Fellowship Program for the summer of 2008. He will go to EPA's RTP office to design and implement a research project that furthers the knowledge base of the critical linkages between ecosystems and air quality. The project goal is to improve the scientific justification for secondary standards of criteria pollutants such as sulfur dioxide. Brett is a first year graduate student in Dr. Nicholas Meskhidze’s research group. |
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| Matthew Igel: (undergrad)--Received the following: Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association Scholarship, NCSU Undergraduate Research Award Grant, AMS Atmospheric Chemistry Travel Grant. |
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Travis Miles: MEAS graduate student Travis Miles just won the North Carolina Space Grant Fellowship ($6000) for his graduate research proposal entitled "Covariability of Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Color in the South Atlantic Bight."
NC Space Grant is a part of National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program established by U.S. Congress and implemented by NASA. This competitively awarded program selects awardees based on the quality of research proposals and academic achievements.
Travis is the first-year graduate student in Dr. Roy He's Ocean Observing and Modeling group. Congratulations, Travis, and keep up the good work! |
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| Kelly Mahoney: At the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Weather Analysis and Forecasting/ Numerical Weather Prediction (WAF/NWP) conference in Park City, Utah (June 2007), Kelly Mahoney won the 1st place award for "Best Student Presentation." This is excellent recognition for our program, and for Kelly, especially given that there were a large number of strong student presentations at this conference. |
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| Casey Burleyson: Meteorology senior Casey Burleyson has been awarded a
National Science Foundation IGERT (Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program) Fellowship for full-time graduate study
at the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University in New York. |
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| Jay Bozeman: Junior meteorology major Jay Bozeman has been accepted to the NSF
Research Experience for Undergraduates Summer Program (2007) at Colorado
State University. As part of the program, he will have the opportunity to work with engineers on the state-of-the-art CSU-CHILL national radar facility. |
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Clint A. Boyd: Geological Society of America Research Grant (2006-2007)
Clint, who is working with Dr. Julia Clarke, MEAS, will go to the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology as well as Peking University in Beijing, China this summer to collect data on Chinese ornithischian dinosaurs that will be added to an ongoing investigation of the evolutionary relationships within this group. |
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| N. Adam Smith: Smithsonian Institute Graduate Student Fellowship (2006) |
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| Yiyi Wong (Ph.D. student): 2007 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship (EAPSI). She will go to the Tongji University in Shanghai, China this summer to continue her comparison studies of the Yangtze River and Taiwanese small mountainous rivers derived sediments in the Okinawa Trough. |
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| Cathy Thompson, 2007 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship (EAPSI). (Pending) She will go to the Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University, New Zealand this summer to survey the Waiapu River watershed to understand the impacts of soil and geomorphological changes on carbon cycles. |
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| Tony Szempruch: Undergraduate Research Award |
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| Jeremy Green: Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Research Award, University of California, Berkeley, and the Geological Society of America Student Research Award |
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| Mike Kiefer: Department of Defense Air Force Fellowship starting September '06 for three years |
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| Heather Reeves: Visiting Scientist position at NCAR as of Jan. 1, 2007 |
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