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.
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.
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!
Rudiger Escobar-Wolf (GMES/EPSSI) is Principal Investigator on a project that has received a $294,662 research and development grant from the National Science Foundation. The project is titled “Collaborative Research: Lahar Dynamics and Monitoring: A Multiparametric Approach Grounded in Infrasound.” This is a potential three-year project
Thomas Oommen (GMES/EPSSI) is Principal Investigator on a project that has received a $39,999 research and development grant from the US Department of State. The project is titled, “Developing and Improving Disaster Management Studies Course in India.” This is a one-year project.
John Gierke (GMES/EPSSI) is Principal Investigator on a project that has received a $582,752 grant from the National Science Foundation. This is a potential three-year project.
James 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.
Simon Carn (GMES/EPSSI), is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $79,390 research and development grant from NASA. The project is entitled “Exploiting High-Cadence Observations of Volcanic Eruptions from DSCOVR/EPIC.”
This is the first year of a potential three-year project totaling $267,948.
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.
Kenneth Hinkel (GMES/EPSSI) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $75,436 research and development grant from the National Science Foundation. The project is titled “Collaborative Research: Causes and Consequences of Catastrophic Thermokarst Lake Drainage in an Evolving Arctic System.”
This is a three-year project.