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Congratulations to doctoral students Jessica Robin and Megan Weiner in being awarded NASA Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowships! Megan's winning topic is "Radar Monitoring of Hydrologic Variability in Maryland’s Forested Coastal Plain Wetlands." Jessica's topic is "The Soil and Atmosphere Exchange: Predicting How Soil Dynamics May Mediate Climate Change for Biological and Hydrological Systems Utilizing GLOBE Student Data and Satellite Imagery." These two awards make the fifth and sixth Maryland geography graduate students to win this fellowship in the past three years! Jessica and Megan follow past winners Ed Hyer (2001), Jan Dempewolf (2002), Sefania Korontzi (2002), and Konrad Wessels (2002).
According to NASA, "The purpose of the [Earth System Science Graduate] Fellowship program is for the Office of Earth Science to train a pool of highly qualified scientists in support of NASA's central mission to understand and protect our home planet. NASA understands that the future of Earth science rests with today's students, who will be tomorrow's scientists. Financial support for pursuing an advanced education obviously plays a vital role in securing the necessary talent in the education pipeline to further NASA's mission to advance Earth system science." |
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