New Funding: Greg Waite

Congrats to Greg Waite (GMES/EPSSI) the principal investigator (PI) on a project that has received a $4,000 student fellowship grant from the University of Michigan (Michigan Space Grant Consortium).

The project is titled “Seismic Amplitude based Lahar Tracking for Real-Time Hazard Assessment.”

Brendan Harville (GMES/EPSSI) is a co-PI on this project. Read more about Brendan and the other students receiving awards from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium on the College of Engineering blog.

New Funding

Caleb Kaminski (GMES/EPSSI) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $5,000 other-student fellowship grant from the University of Michigan – Michigan Space Grant Consortium.

The project is titled “Investigation of Ground-Penetrating Radar Interactions with Basaltic Substrate for Future Lunar Missions.”

Aleksey Smirnov (GMES/EPSSI) is a co-PI on the project. Read more about Caleb and the other students receiving awards from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium on the College of Engineering blog.

New Funding: Petra Huentemeyer

Congratulations to Physics Professor and Director, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute (EPSSI) Petra Huentemeyer, principal investigator on a recently awarded $860,000 NSF grant to help design a $50 million Southern hemisphere gamma-ray observatory as part of a large collaboration of astrophysicists that she leads. Professor Huentemeyer is currently a leader in the HAWC observatory, located high on a volcano in Mexico!

Petra Huentemeyer
Petra Huentemeyer

New Funding

James DeGraffJames DeGraff (EGM/EPSSI) is the Principal Investigator on a research and development project that has received $35,000 from the US Geological Survey.

This project is titled “Keweenaw Fault Geometry, Related Structures, and Slip Kinematics Along the Lac La Belle-Mohawk Segment, Michigan.” Chad Deering (EGM) and Aleksey Smirnov (EGM) are co-PI’s on this one-year project.

EPSSI Seminar Today

Manish Kumar Shrivastava, an atmospheric scientist at the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will present New Research Frontiers in Secondary Organic Aerosols: Connecting Atmospheric Chemistry, Clouds, Radiation and Human Health” at 4:05 p.m. today (Sept. 24) in M&M U113.

Shrivastava’s seminar is sponsored by the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences Institute.