ESOC News: Fall 2009
Khalid Hussein is part of the team to receive five million from the DOE
Project: Focused confirmation of Commercial Geothermal Resources in Colorado using Remote Sensing and On-site Exploration, Testing and Analysis. The main objective of the project is to identify and confirm up to 5 commercial geothermal sites in Colorado using remote sensing. ESOC in collaboration with 3 other partners, Flint Geothermal LLC, Geothermal Development Associates and Aspen Drilling LLC will execute the project in 3 phases. more details of funding ...
John Kineman receives Fulbright Fellowship
John Kineman's research at the univesity's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) involves ecological niche theory and focuses on the ecology and environmental in Bangalore, India. His work has been celebrated with a Fulbright Fellowship. more details of his work ...
Welcome David Noone
In July, David joined ESOC as our seventh faculty member. David and his group focus on the interactions between large scale atmospheric dynamics, the water cycle, and climate. As assistant professor in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, David teaches several courses in climate and atmospheric dynamics. Visit his CIRES Fellows page, for more details of his work ...
Congratulations to Chihoko Yamashita
Congratulations to PhD student Chihoko Yamashita for winning 2nd prize in the CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics in Atmospheric Regions) student poster competition hosted by The National Science Foundation in Santa Fe, NM. Chihoko's poster title is "Gravity wave impacts on the atmospheric coupling during strataspheric sudden warming".
Congratulations to Jonathan Fentzke
Congratulatiuons to Jonathan Fentzke for successfully defending his PhD dissertation in May 2009, and for being awarded the CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics in Atmostpheric Regions) post-doctural fellowship by the National Science Foundation this summer.
NESSF Fellowship awarded to John Smith
Congratulation to John Smith on being awarded a competitive NASA Earth & Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for 2009/2010. John received a grant to fund his research proposal "Whole Atmosphere LIDAR for Study of Whole-Atmosphere Waves and Dynamics" under the guidance of advisor Xinzhao Chu. Read more about the recent NESSF awards here (pdf).
Spring 2009
The CU Boulder Faculty & Staff Newsletter featured ESOC in May.
Read the article titled "Earth Science & Observation Center studies global environment"
Welcome Xinzhao
In May, Xinchao joined ESOC as our sixth faculty member, bringing with her a very active research group in the area of lidar remote sensing of the atmosphere. See more details of her work ...
