Sarah Keegan

Headquarters, Washington, D.C. June 22, 1990

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RELEASE: 90-87

NASA SELECTS 37 STUDENTS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Continuing its efforts to encourage the next generation of

scientists and engineers, NASA has selected 37 graduate students
at U.S. universities to take part in the Global Change Fellowship
Program.

The Global Change Fellows, students pursuing Ph.D. degrees,

were selected by a panel of representatives from the Earth
Science and Applications Division, Office of Space Science and
Applications (OSSA) and the Educational Affairs Division at NASA
and from professional scientific societies and universities.
Fellowships of $22,000, beginning in the 1990-91 academic year
and renewable for 3 years, will be awarded based on research
proposals submitted by the selected applicants.

The selected students, from the United States and 10 other

countries, represent 28 U.S. institutions of higher learning.
Their proposals included research in atmospheric physics and
chemistry, biogeochemistry, data and information systems,
ecosystems, hydrology, oceanography and solid-Earth sciences.

"The thing we hope to do," said Dr. Shelby G. Tilford,

Director of OSSA's Earth Science and Applications Division, "is
encourage and train a new generation of Earth scientists, who may
one day be responsible for much of the analysis of data from the
Earth Observing System."

The Earth Observing System (EOS) is NASA's proposed series

of space platforms that would carry suites of related instruments
to study the interaction of Earth's biological, geological and
chemical systems and the effects of those interactions on the
environment. If approved by Congress in the Fiscal Year 1991
budget, the first EOS platform would be planned for a Fiscal Year
1998 launch.

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NASA hopes to have 150 fellowships in effect annually by the

time the first platform is launched. The wide range of
disciplines represented among the selected proposals reflect the
interdisciplinary nature of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, which
incorporates most of the agency's Earth science programs in an
effort to understand the Earth as a unified system. The goal of
Mission to Planet Earth, as part of the U.S. Global Change
Research Program, is to increase our understanding of the
environment and improve ability to predict changes on a global
scale.

Though fellows are under no obligation to work for the

government or even to continue in the Earth sciences, NASA is
counting on the attraction and increasing emphasis on
environmental issues to keep the students working in their areas.

Fellowship proposals were evaluated based on academic

excellence of the student, quality of the research proposal and
relevance to NASA's role in the U.S. Global Change Research
Program.

The selected students, their institutions and areas of

research are:

Atmospheric Chemistry:

Margaret K.M. Brown, University of Washington; Steven Andrew

Lloyd, Harvard University; Young Sunwoo, University of Iowa;
Renyi Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Atmospheric Physics:

Timothy Michael Del Sole, Harvard University; Carter Lee

Grotbeck, University of Arizona; Stephen A. Klein, University of
Washington; Jon Thomas Nelson, University of Washington; Thomas
Carl Peterson, Colorado State University; Eric Paul Salathe, Yale
University; Brian Jon Soden, University of Chicago.

Biogeochemistry:

David William Bolgrien, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;

Anne Marie Braunschweig, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities;
Stephen Kimber Hamilton, University of California-Santa Barbara;
Ann P. Kinzig, University of California-Berkeley.

Data and Information Systems:

James William Hardin, Texas A&M University.

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Ecosystems:

Tracy Lea Benning, Kansas State University; William Michael

Childress, Texas A&M University; Lars Lowell Pierce, University
of Montana; John Frederick Weishampel, University of Virginia.

Hydrology:

Afshan Alam, Penn State University; Ana Paula Barros,

University of Washington; Wesley Keith Berg, University of
Colorado-Boulder; Vannaroth Nuth, University of Texas-Austin;
Scott Dale Peckham, University of Colorado-Boulder; Richard
Warner Turner, Iowa State University; Randolph H. Wynne,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Oceanography:

Mary-Lynn Dickson, Oregon State University; Maria Christina

Forbes, University of Miami; Jacqueline Kerry Holen, Stanford
University; Laura Lee Landrum, University of Washington; Cecile
Mauritzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joanna
Elizabeth Muench, University of Washington; Susan Elizabeth
Wifjjels, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; Edward D. Zaron,
Oregon State University.

Solid Earth Sciences:

Andrea Szilagyi, Purdue University; Thorvaldur Thodarson,

University of Hawaii-Manoa.

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