Graduate Student Fellows, 2006-2007

Brandon Michael Connelly
Macalester College
B.A., Chemistry and History
Department/Major: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faculty Sponsor: Margaret Tolbert
Research Area: Uptake of organics by thin sulfuric acid/ammonium sulfate films: The kinetics of acid-catalyzed secondary organic formation

Scott Gregory
Florida Atlantic University
B.S., Ocean Engineering; M.S., Ocean Engineering specializing in acoustics
Department/Major: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Faculty Sponsor: David Noone
Research Area: Tropical/high-latitude climate linkages with El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) signals in Antarctic ice cores

Eileen McKim
University of Colorado at Boulder
B.A., Distributed Studies Earth Systems Science; M.A., Geography/Climatology
Department/Major: Geography/Climatology
Faculty Sponsor: Roger Barry
Research Area: Analyses of hydrological processes and interactions with the climate system-with goals of providing scientific assessment of global change in climate and the environment

Lin Liu
Wuhan University, Hubei, P.R. China
B.S., Geophysics
Department/Major: Department of Physics
Faculty Sponsor: John Wahr
Research Areas: The use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and its applications in geophysics and geology; Space Geodesy; and Physics of the Earth’s core

Pilar Rojas Linero
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
B.S., Geology
Department/Major: Geological Sciences
Faculty Sponsor: Peter Molnar
Research Area: The relationship between mountain building and climatic processes, linking surface and sub-surface processes to understand the evolution of mountainous topography

Mark Seefeldt
Florida State University/ University of Wisconsin at Madison
B.S., Meteorology/ M.S., Atmospheric Science
Department/Major: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Faculty Sponsor: John Cassano
Research Area: An analysis of the Ross Ice Shelf air stream based on observational and numerical modeling studies