Author: Steve Mintz

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