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SPACE Digest                                     Volume 11 : Issue 570

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NASA selects 37 students for Global Change Fellowship Program (Forwarded)

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Date: 25 Jun 90 05:17:20 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA selects 37 students for Global Change Fellowship Program (Forwarded)

Sarah Keegan
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                      June 22, 1990
(Phone:  202/453-1548)


RELEASE:  90-87

NASA SELECTS 37 STUDENTS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM


     Continuing its efforts to encourage the next generation of 
scientists and engineers, NASA has selected 37 graduate students 
at U.S. universities to take part in the Global Change Fellowship 
Program.

     The Global Change Fellows, students pursuing Ph.D. degrees, 
were selected by a panel of representatives from the Earth 
Science and Applications Division, Office of Space Science and 
Applications (OSSA) and the Educational Affairs Division at NASA 
and from professional scientific societies and universities.  
Fellowships of $22,000, beginning in the 1990-91 academic year 
and renewable for 3 years, will be awarded based on research 
proposals submitted by the selected applicants.

     The selected students, from the United States and 10 other 
countries, represent 28 U.S. institutions of higher learning.  
Their proposals included research in atmospheric physics and 
chemistry, biogeochemistry, data and information systems, 
ecosystems, hydrology, oceanography and solid-Earth sciences.

     "The thing we hope to do," said Dr. Shelby G. Tilford, 
Director of OSSA's Earth Science and Applications Division, "is 
encourage and train a new generation of Earth scientists, who may 
one day be responsible for much of the analysis of data from the 
Earth Observing System."

     The Earth Observing System (EOS) is NASA's proposed series 
of space platforms that would carry suites of related instruments 
to study the interaction of Earth's biological, geological and 
chemical systems and the effects of those interactions on the 
environment.  If approved by Congress in the Fiscal Year 1991 
budget, the first EOS platform would be planned for a Fiscal Year 
1998 launch.

     NASA hopes to have 150 fellowships in effect annually by the 
time the first platform is launched.  The wide range of 
disciplines represented among the selected proposals reflect the 
interdisciplinary nature of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, which 
incorporates most of the agency's Earth science programs in an 
effort to understand the Earth as a unified system.  The goal of 
Mission to Planet Earth, as part of the U.S. Global Change 
Research Program, is to increase our understanding of the 
environment and improve ability to predict changes on a global 
scale.

     Though fellows are under no obligation to work for the 
government or even to continue in the Earth sciences, NASA is 
counting on the attraction and increasing emphasis on 
environmental issues to keep the students working in their areas.

     Fellowship proposals were evaluated based on academic 
excellence of the student, quality of the research proposal and 
relevance to NASA's role in the U.S. Global Change Research 
Program.

     The selected students, their institutions and areas of 
research are:

Atmospheric Chemistry:
     Margaret K.M. Brown, University of Washington; Steven Andrew 
Lloyd, Harvard University; Young Sunwoo, University of Iowa; 
Renyi Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Atmospheric Physics:
     Timothy Michael Del Sole, Harvard University; Carter Lee 
Grotbeck, University of Arizona; Stephen A. Klein, University of 
Washington; Jon Thomas Nelson, University of Washington; Thomas 
Carl Peterson, Colorado State University; Eric Paul Salathe, Yale 
University; Brian Jon Soden, University of Chicago.

Biogeochemistry:
     David William Bolgrien, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; 
Anne Marie Braunschweig, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; 
Stephen Kimber Hamilton, University of California-Santa Barbara; 
Ann P. Kinzig, University of California-Berkeley.

Data and Information Systems:
     James William Hardin, Texas A&M University.

Ecosystems:
     Tracy Lea Benning, Kansas State University; William Michael 
Childress, Texas A&M University; Lars Lowell Pierce, University 
of Montana; John Frederick Weishampel, University of Virginia.

Hydrology:
     Afshan Alam, Penn State University; Ana Paula Barros, 
University of Washington; Wesley Keith Berg, University of 
Colorado-Boulder; Vannaroth Nuth, University of Texas-Austin; 
Scott Dale Peckham, University of Colorado-Boulder; Richard 
Warner Turner, Iowa State University; Randolph H. Wynne, 
University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Oceanography:
     Mary-Lynn Dickson, Oregon State University; Maria Christina 
Forbes, University of Miami; Jacqueline Kerry Holen, Stanford 
University; Laura Lee Landrum, University of Washington; Cecile 
Mauritzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joanna 
Elizabeth Muench, University of Washington; Susan Elizabeth 
Wifjjels, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; Edward D. Zaron, 
Oregon State University.

Solid Earth Sciences:
     Andrea Szilagyi, Purdue University; Thorvaldur Thodarson, 
University of Hawaii-Manoa.

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