Tag: EPSSI

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.

Annual Honrath Lecture

The Richard E. Honrath Memorial Lecture is scheduled for 4 p.m. Oct. 19 in Dow 641.

Graham Feingold, a senior scientist at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory and the lead author of Chapter 5 in the IPCC’s latest assessment report on climate change, will present “Do Aerosol Particles have a Significant Impact on Clouds?” The full abstract for the talk is here.

The Lecture is sponsored by the Earth Planetary and Space Sciences Institute (EPSSI) and the Richard E. Honrath Memorial Fund.

Honrath was a Professor in the Departments of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, and Civil and Environmental Engineering and was the founding director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program. The Memorial Fund was established after Honrath passed away in 2009.