Application is restricted to students who have not been out of school for more than one year. Non-citizens are eligible only if they have attended or graduated from a U.S. college or university during the past year and have a visa that allows them to receive a stipend. ORAU contacts are listed on the information sheet following the project description.
Gas hydrate is a crystalline solid formed of water and gas.
It looks and acts much like ice, but it contains huge amounts of methane and it exists in very large quantities in marine sediments in a layer several hundred meters thick directly below the sea floor and in association with permafrost in the Arctic. This project seeks to understand the processes that control methane hydrate in the natural environment by using geophysical techniques. Processing seismic data using commercial programs. Assisting in data interpretation and preparation of interpretations of the data and graphics for scientific presentations and publications using available software. Going to sea on research ships to assist in data collection.