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Student Achievements
Our graduate students continue to be productive, successful young scientists. Four noteable students achievements for this month are described below:
Kisa Mwakanyamale was awarded a Department of Energy (DOE) Environment Remediation Science Program (ERSP) Student Travel Fellowship to attend the annual principal investigator's meeting in Lansdowne, Virginia, April 20-23. Kisa will present her poster titled 'Geophysical Characterization of Paleochannels Within the Hyporheic Corridor, Hanford 300 Area', that describes the first part of her research on groundwater-surface water exchange at this high profile site.
Andrew Parsekian was awarded an $1800 grant from the Geological Society of America (GSA) Research Grant Committee for his proposal 'Investigating Stratigraphic Controls on Surface Vegitation Patterns and Vernal Ponds in the New Jersy Pinelands' Andy will be conducting this research, in addition to his ongoing phd studies on methane emissions from peatlands, during Summer 2009.
Lu Wang, a first-year PhD student in our program, has just published a lead-author paper in Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, entitled “Methyl iodide in the NW Atlantic: Spatial and seasonal variation” (Detailed citation will come soon). This work was derived from Lu’s Master Thesis research conducted at Dalhousie University; Lu accomplished manuscript revisions while working as a full-time TA and taking a full-load of course work during her first year in our program. She continues her interests in the atmosphere-ocean interactions through her PhD research.
Yuliang Zhao, who spent two years in our program and obtained a MS degree, published two lead-author papers, entitled (1) “Mass size distributions of water-soluble inorganic and organic ions in size segregated aerosols over metropolitan Newark in the US East Coast, Atmospheric Environment, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.01.032, 42, 4063-4078, 2008,” and (2) ”Acidic species and chloride depletion in coarse aerosol particles in the US east coast, Science of the Total Environment, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.09.002, 407, 541-547, 2008.” Yunliang is now pursuing his PhD at UC-Berkeley.