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DEPARTMENT EVENTS
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DEPARTMENT NEWS
- OCTOBER 2009 - Congratulations to ANNE NOLIN, who as part of her sabbatical
has been selected as this year's Landolt Chair for a Sustainable Future at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. As an invited
visiting professor there she will "extend her research, teach EPFL students,
help guide semester and Master's projects and organise interdisciplinary and
public-oriented activities." Her tenure there begins on November 1, 2009 and extends
for 8 months.
- JULY 2009 -
Congratulations to CELENE CHRISTENSEN (undergraduate double major in geology and environmental sciences, and in the Honors College) on being chosen for a URISC (Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity) award. In addition to the URISC, she is supported by a Department of Geosciences undergraduage research award and this summer by a Subsurface Biosphere Initiative internship. The URISC award will support her research in Dr. Roy Haggerty's lab next academic year. The title of her undergraduate thesis is “Development of a “Smart” Tracer: Microbial Respiration in Stream Sediment and the Resazurin-Resorufin System”
- JULY 2009 - CONGRATULATIONS to Geography doctoral student TRACY KUGLER, who was chosen by ESRI in a national competition to receive the inaugural ESRI
Development Center (EDC) Best Student Award. Tracy was nominated by DAWN WRIGHT
based on her efforts and leadership in developing a GIS programming course
(GEO 599 Special Topics). She will be funded by ESRI to attend the 2009
International User Conference in San Diego UC where she will receive a
certificates of recognition and a photo with ESRI President Jack Dangermond
at the Special Achievements in GIS session. She will also receive a $500
prize and have her name engraved on the OSU EDC plaque. OSU was designated
by ESRI in 2008 as an EDC. Tracy is co-advised by JULIA JONES and
MARY SANTELMANN.
- JUNE 2009 - CONGRATULATIONS to ANITA GRUNDER who will receive the
Association of Women Geoscientists 2009 award as Outstanding Educator.
Anita will be honored at a special award ceremony, Monday October 19, at
the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland.
- MAY 2009 - CONGRATULATIONS to Geology undergrad DONNA BOU-RABEE, who has
received an award to participate in the Kuwait-MIT Scholarly Exchange Program
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the auspices of the Kuwait
Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, funded Kuwait-MIT Center for
Natural Resources and the Environment!
- CONGRATULATIONS to M.S. Water Resources student BRIDGET BROWN, who received an honorable mention in the 2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship competition, and will be provided with enhanced access to cyberinfrastructure resources,
including supercomputing time through the TeraGrid.
ANDREW MEIGS shares the following great news:
- SAM VANLANINGHAM, Geosciences MS and COAS PhD, has accepted a job as an Assistant Professor in the Geological Oceanography Department in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska.
- SARA ALSBURY has accepted a summer internship with the Southern California Earthquake Center, which is a competitive nationwide program.
- AJEET JOHNSON has been awarded a USGS/NAGT summer internship and will be working at the USGS in Menlo Park, CA. This is a prestigious national program based in part on performance at field camp.
Congratulations to these current and former students!
- APRIL 2009 - CONGRATULATIONS to Geology doctoral student JULIA ROSEN
who will receive a 3-year NSF Graduate Fellowship. This national program
is extremely competitive, and such an award is therefore a huge honor.
Julie is advised by ED BROOK.
- An outstanding 2009 continues with the news that
Water Resources Engineering doctoral student TERRY FRUEH has been awarded
$3000 for his research by the Geological Society of America! Terry is
also an Ecosystem Informatics IGERT Fellow and is advised by STEPHEN LANCASTER.
- MARCH 2009 - Congratulations to Geography doctoral student DYLAN
KEON who took first place at the Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Annual Meeting in the Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG) Student
Paper Competition. His extended abstract and presentation were entitled, "The
Tsunami Computational Portal: Distributed Infrastructure for Executing and
Comparing Multiple Computational Models." Dylan won a $300 cash prize and
a 1-year renewal membership in the AAG and the CISG. Dylan is advised
by DAWN WRIGHT and his paper was co-authored by Cherri Pancake of Computer
Science, Harry of Civil Engr., and Tom Logan of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center.
- MARCH 2009 - Congratulations to Geology alumna DANIELLE JANSIK (2006)
who is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, and was
recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study "Colloid Transport in
Unsaturated Porous Media Flow Conditions" in Denmark next year!
- FEBRUARY 2009 - Congratulations to Water Resources and IGERT Ecosystem
Informatics Doctoral Student JAY ZARNETSKE who won the Outstanding Student
Paper Award in Hydrology at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical
Union. The presentation title was "Hyporheic Denitrification in an
Upland Agricultural Stream: A 15N Tracer Study." The work was funded by the National Science Foundation. Jay is co-advised by ROY HAGGERTY, along with
Vrushali Bokil in Mathematics and Steve Wondzell of the USFS. He is also
the featured researcher in the March 2009 issue of H2OSU.
- JANUARY 2009 - Congratulations to Water Resources Doctoral Student ERIC SPROLES who received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award for his
project entitled "Modeling Basin Scale Snow Water Equivalent: Present Day and Projected Future Impacts On Stream Flow in the Oregon Cascades," and to Geography
M.S. student AIMEE BROWN for being selected for a prestigious internship at the
National Geographic in Washington, DC! Both students are advised by ANNE NOLIN.
- DECEMBER 2008 - DAWN WRIGHT has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- DECEMBER 2008 - Undergrad JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM (Geology) has been named a 2009 DeLoach Scholar by the OSU University Honors College. She is mentored by ROGER NIELSEN.
- rad student AIMEE BROWN (Geography) was awarded a College of Science Student Travel Award (COSSTA) to aid her in presenting her research at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. She is advised by ANNE NOLIN.
- CTOBER 2008 - Grad student JEFF PHILLIPPE (Geography) is the 2008 recipient of the
WAGS/UMI Distinguished Masters Thesis Award. This was a campus-wide
competition and now Jeff will go on to compete across all western US
universities. His thesis is entitled Present-day and Future Contributions
of Glacier Melt to the Upper Middle Fork Hood River: Implications for Water
Management.
- EPTEMBER 2008 - Congratulations to the following Geosciences faculty members who were recognized with College of Science awards!
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JUNE 2008 - JOHN KLOCK (Geography) won a $12,000 fellowship for
internatonal leadership from the Sasakawa Foundation. This award is given
to approximately 5 recipients annually throughout the Oregon University
System.
- Similarly, ELINA LIN (Water Resources) won a $6,000 dollar fellowship
for her future work related to China.
- JUNE 2008 - STEVE COOK (Geography) has won the first annual sustainability award
for his work in environmental sustainability and education in the Corvallis
city community. This award was created and presented by the
First Alternative Coop and is awarded to those who "Walk the Walk" in the
community.
- April 2008 - ED BROOK (Geology) was honored with a Leopold Leadership Fellowship. "Leopold Leadership fellowships focus on training, networking and outreach to help leading environmental scientists move ideas into action and advance science-based decision-making. Through a competitive application process, up to 20 scientists from the U.S., Canada and Mexico are selected each year as Leopold Leadership Fellows, participate in the training and become members of the Leopold Leadership network." (leopoldleadership.org)
- April 2008 - KYLE HOGREFE (Geography) won FIRST PRIZE in the extremely competitive 2008 Honors
Competition for Student Papers on Geographic Information Science, at the
Association of American Geographers in Boston, surpassing doctoral students
from USC, the University of Michigan, Arizona State, and UT-Dallas. To our
knowledge, he is the first M.S. student to ever win this competition in
its 17 year history (we have had 1 prior M.S. student who was the first M.S.
student to be named a finalist and one prior doctoral student who won). Kyle
was judged on both the quality of his 7500-word paper and his oral
presentation. In addition to a $500 travel grant to attend the meeting, he
received $500 for winning the competition, plus a $45 ticket to the AAG Awards
Luncheon on Saturday, where he was duly recognized.
- DYLAN KEON (Geography) was awarded a $10,000 research grant from the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium for a project related to his dissertation, "Web-based Educational Tools for Understanding Climate Variability."
- April 2008 - Geosciences and Water Resources Science PhD student JAY ZARNETSKE recently received a research grant from the Geological Society of America. The grant is titled Toward Robust Estimates of Stream-Groundwater Exchange: Innovative Hyporheic Geophysics and Transport Modeling of a Key Nutrient. This grant will help advance his dissertation research which focuses on constraining and assessing the complexities of water and solutes exchanging between stream water and adjacent groundwater, and how these exchange dynamics relate to stream biogeochemistry, especially the removal of excess Nitrogen. Jay is also a Fellow in the Ecosystems Informatics NSF IGERT program at OSU <http://ecoinformatics.oregonstate.edu/>. More information about his current and previous research is available at <http://oregonstate.edu/~zarnetsj/>.
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