The following students have won awards or fellowships for their achievements: |
| Ray Mroch has been awarded the 2008-2009 North Carolina Fellowship in Marine Fisheries Management. Mroch's research focus will be to compare methods for determining age in summer flounder, /Paralichthys dentatus/. Funded by North Carolina Sea Grant and the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, the award provides the opportunity for a graduate student or post-graduate to participate in professional education and training while assisting the state to resolve marine fisheries management issues. |
| Joseph Kasperski, a Junior in Geology and a student of Dr. Karl Wegmann, received an NC State University Undergraduate Research Award ($1,300). His research will be conducted this summer (2009) in the field (Washington State) and next fall in the lab and is entitled "Using Dendrochronology to Constrain Paleo-Earthquakes near Mount Rainier, Washington: Improving Seismic Hazard Estimation through Analysis and Dating Of Landslides." |
Kristen M. James (graduate student of Dr. Viney Aneja) was recently awarded a 2009 First Place Master Thesis Award from the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) in recognition of an unusually significant contribution to the field of air quality, all types of waste, or sustainability/management pertaining to air quality or waste.
A primary goal of the Air & Waste Management Association is to foster educational activities to further enhance the growth of leaders. Kristen's award is a gratis one-year student membership which will encourage her participation in these activities. |
| Matthew Miller: NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship starting September 2007 for three years (Ph.D. student of Dr. Sandra Yuter). |
Alyssa Sabolis, first year MEAS graduate student, was awarded the NC Space Grant Fellowship ($6000) for the 2009-2010 academic year. Her research titled “Quantification of Marine Biogenic Isoprene Fluxes from the NC Coast Using Remotely Sensed Data” is being conducted under the supervision of Dr. Nicholas Meskhidze. Using the remotely sensed and field data Alyssa will create, for the first time, accurate, high resolution maps of marine biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions from the North Carolina coast.
NC Space Grant (http://www.ncspacegrant.org/) 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. |
Matthew Johnson was awarded summer fellowship for Graduate Student Summer Program in Earth System Science 2009 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC). This prestigious program is designed to stimulate interest in interdisciplinary Earth sciences studies by enabling selected students to carry out an intensive research project at GSFC's Earth Sciences Division. Matthew recently defended his MS degree at MEAS and continues his PhD studies under the supervision of Dr. Nicholas Meskhidze.
More details can be found at:
http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/gradsummerinstitute/docs/2009_GSSP_Poster.pdf |
Brandon Puckett was awarded an extremely competitive "National Sea Grant/National Marine Fisheries Service Population Dynamics Graduate Fellowship". This was a national competition with only 2 awards made--Brandon's was the top choice. Brandon's co-advisor for this fellowship will be Dr. Kyle Shertzer at the NOAA Beaufort laboratory. The fellowship provides 3 years of RA support plus research/travel budget.
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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. |
| Yiyi Wong: Congratulations to Yiyi for receiving the Fulbright Fellowship to China for 2008-2009. |
| 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. |
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. |
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. |
| Matthew Igel: (undergrad)--Received the following: Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association Scholarship, NCSU Undergraduate Research Award Grant, AMS Atmospheric Chemistry Travel Grant. |
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! |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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. |
| N. Adam Smith: Smithsonian Institute Graduate Student Fellowship (2006) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Tony Szempruch: Undergraduate Research Award |
| Jeremy Green: Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Research Award, University of California, Berkeley, and the Geological Society of America Student Research Award |
| Mike Kiefer: Department of Defense Air Force Fellowship starting September '06 for three years |
| Heather Reeves: Visiting Scientist position at NCAR as of Jan. 1, 2007 |
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