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dr yige zhang assistant professor in the department of oceanography at texas a&m university has been honored with the 2022 fw clarke award from the geochemical society he will receive the prestigious clarke medal at the geochemical societys goldschmidt conference in july zhang is recognized for his contributions to the application and refinement of lipid biomarker proxies for paleotemperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide reconstructions including development of the "methane index" and "ring index yiges contributions to the improvement of paleoproxies exemplify his leadership in the field this award is well-deserved said dr shari yvon-lewis oceanography department head our planet earth has such a rich history including history of climate change zhang said we had geological periods that were so warm that the temperature of the tropical ocean was literally the same as my shower and there were intervals that was so cold that places like new york or chicago were under thick ice sheets but we need specialized tools such as proxies based on lipid biomarkers ormolecular fossils to read the climate signature from archives like marine sediments and one of my research focuses is to develop or refine these tools to better get the job done the clarke award is the highest honor for early-career scientists in geochemistry and it annually recognizes one early-career scientist for a single outstanding contribution to geochemistry or cosmochemistry published either as a single paper or a series of papers on a single topic there was stiff competition for the clarke medal this year with a large number of nominations spanning the many diverse fields of geochemistry and it is a credit to yige that he rose to the top of this elite group said dr ethan grossman professor and michel t halbouty chair in texas a&ms department of geology and geophysics co-director of the stable isotope geosciences facility and nominator of zhang for this award the award consists of an engraved silver medal an honorarium and a certificate fw clarke was a chemist who determined the composition of the earths crust and he has been called the father of geochemistry
the texas academy of sciences (tas) recently named dr ping yang university distinguished professor in the department for atmospheric sciences and associate dean for research in the college of geosciences at texas a&m university the 2022 texas distinguished scientist this honor reflects distinguished contributions to science through research and publication that have garnered recognition at the national and international level tas said and recipients must have spent a significant portion of their careers in texas earlier this year yang was also named the recipient of the 2022 van de hulst light scattering award he will present a van de hulst lecture at the next international electromagnetic and light scattering conference (location tbd) the van de hulst award is the most prestigious award in the field of electromagnetic and light scattering by particles and the award selection is determined by an international committee dr yang continues to redefine superlative and these two most recent honors reflect how deeply admired and respected he is by the community said dr debbie thomas dean of the college of geosciences at texas a&m we are so fortunate to have a colleague as gifted and respected as dr yang yang holds the david bullock harris chair in geosciences at texas a&m has served as associate dean for research since 2019 and served as head of the department of atmospheric sciences from 2012 to 2018 his research focuses on light scattering radiative transfer remote sensing and numerical modeling of the optical properties of nonspherical particles and its applications yang is a fellow of the american physical society the optical society of america the electromagnetics academy the american geophysical union the american meteorological society and the american association for the advancement of science
the society for underwater technology us branch (sut-us) awarded two of its 2021 scholarships to texas a&m oceanography graduate students samantha longridge and christena hoelscher sut is an international society founded in 1966 and includes members from over 40 countries longridge and hoelscher joined the community that supports similar interests in ocean science underwater technology and offshore engineering its a really cool program with people from different backgrounds like engineers physical oceanographers and biological oceanographers intermingling in this one society hoelscher said longridge noted that suts webinars seminars and mentorship program are very helpful to students in ocean sciences the $2 000 scholarships were awarded to longridge and hoelscher over two semesters and four students from other universities also received the scholarship i would like to thank professors dr steve dimarco dr chrissy wiederwohl and dr henry potter for their support in my studies and applying for this scholarship longridge said thanks to dr timothy delapena and dr kyeong park department head for the department of marine and coastal environmental science at texas a&m galveston this scholarship was very helpful in relieving a lot of stress with the financial support hoelscher said it allowed me to better focus on writing my thesis and defending my research longridge and hoelscher both received their scholarships in the second year of their masters degree program
texas sea grant knauss fellows lauren howe-kerr and ed higgins have received their official host office placements effective feb 1 2022 howe-kerr is an executive fellow at the national science foundations division of ocean sciences office of the division director while higgins is a legislative fellow working at the office of senator brian schatz of hawaii i am excited to apply my scientific experience towards policy and management solutions that tangibly address climate change and ocean conservation howe-kerr said i am also looking forward to learning how researchers can be more civically engaged in national policy as a phd student at rice university howe-kerr studies coral reef microbial ecology by tracking the microbiomes of coral colonies she examines how viruses algae and bacteria can be used to support resilience in coral reef ecosystems she is interested in learning about the intersection of science and policy to tackle multifaceted issues higgins a phd student from the university of oklahoma studies the interactions between bivalves and environmental microbiomes which have an increasingly clearer connection with each other and their ecosystems he is also interested in the relationship between the language used in scientific policy documents and the legislative outcomes higgins said im excited for the chance to play a role in federal science policy and learn about the intricacies involved in integrating scientific knowledge with decision making on a national level it seems like its going to be a lot of fun! higgins and howe-kerr are part of the 43rd class of the knauss fellowship and join nearly 1 500 professionals who have received hands-on experiences transferring science to policy and management through year-long appointments with federal government offices in washington dc
knauss finalists are chosen through a competitive process that includes several rounds of review at both the state sea grant program and national levels students that are enrolled in or have recently completed masters juris doctor (jd) and phd programs with a focus and/or interest in marine and coastal science policy or management apply to one of the 34 sea grant programs applicants who are successful at the state program level are then reviewed by a national panel of experts for an inside look at the fellows experiences visit the knauss blog
montana etten-bohm a phd candidate in the department of atmospheric sciences was selected as a winner of the oral presentation competition at the american meteorological societys 27th conference on probability and statistics which was held virtually earlier this year she presented a recent study in a talk entitled using advanced statistical models to predict lightning in gcms with coauthors lin zhu dr courtney schumacher dr mikyoung jun and dr yangyang xu etten-bohm will graduate with her phd this may and in august will join the faculty at university of north dakotas department of atmospheric sciences as an instructional assistant professor
nearly 1 000 texas middle and high school students will put their science and engineering knowledge to the test this weekend in aggieland as they battle for lone star state bragging rights in the 2022 texas science olympiad (tso) scheduled for april 22-23 at texas a&m university for the 20th consecutive year texas a&m will play host to the blockbuster finale that features 60 teams from across the state 30 in the middle school division and 30 in the high school division in the ultimate battle of science- and engineering-related academic and at times even athletic wits fridays build/design-themed events which are free and open to the public will run from 9:30 am to 5 pm and be held at the brazos county expo complex in bryan saturdays laboratory and knowledge-based competitions set for 8 am to 2:50 pm are restricted to participants only and will take place on the texas a&m campus all events will conclude with a saturday evening awards ceremony (6:30 pm for division b 7:30 pm for division c) at texas a&ms rudder theater complex the rigorous academic contest which is part of a broader national competition that aims to improve the quality of science education in schools covers a variety of topics spanning the gamut of science engineering and technology individually and collectively each challenge is designed to test students knowledge of a given subject through their combined use of problem-solving skills and teamwork watch a recap video from a previous texas science olympiad on youtube:
each competing school is permitted one team of 15 students who will compete in division b (grades 6-9) or division c (grades 9-12) during the course of the two-day competition students will display their skills in a variety of ways such as constructing longest-flying gliders the most efficient boom and battery-powered cars launching indoor bottle rockets detecting diseases and discerning potions and poisons science olympiad is an incredible tool for teaching science and engineering said dr nancy magnussen a member of the texas a&m college of science educational outreach and womens programs office and state director for the texas science olympiad its a great opportunity for these students to not only showcase their knowledge of science in a fun competitive environment but also to work together as a team toward a common goal across texas this is a huge event that so many students look forward to each year but what we as well as the students and their teachers love about it is that it allows participation by all types of students those who are academically gifted as well as those who are master builders and craftsmen they all get the chance to show off their knowledge and skills because the emphasis is placed on active hands-on group participation in addition to local coordinators from across the brazos valley nearly 200 texas a&m and blinn college faculty staff and students will be on hand to set up and judge the competitions 56 events which feature 23 national as well as five texas events per division as in previous years organizers and judges from nasa as well as business and industrial representatives from both the houston and austin communities also are volunteering their services and expertise first-through-fourth-place winners will be decided for each contest and subsequently recognized as part of saturdays official awards ceremony in rudder the schools from division with the lowest scores (two from middle one from high school) will advance to the science olympiad national tournament to be held may 9-14 at the california institute of technology the science olympiad is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of k-12 science education increasing student interest in science and recognizing outstanding achievements in science education by both students and teachers michigan state university hosted the first annual science olympiad national tournament in may 1985 with 17 states participating currently more than 5 500 teams across all 50 states are involved in 400 tournaments hosted annually on college campuses like texas a&m find more information on this years texas science olympiad including event schedules for both divisions to learn more about the science olympiad organization visit https://soincorg/
ohio university nuclear astrophysicist dr carl brune oversaw beam testing at his institutions 17 400-square-foot john e edwards accelerator laboratory which boasts a rare 45 million-volt tandem accelerator capable of discharging atomic particles to energies up to 14 percent of the speed of light here at ohio university we are proud that our unique neutron science capabilities an intense and well-characterized neutron beam in this case made a significant contribution to this outstanding new science result brune said it is very satisfying to see a multi-institution collaboration like this be successful approximately 5 000 neutrons per second were fired into texat with only about one in a million of them rendering a reverse triple-alpha process roughly one occurrence every five minutes texas a&m cyclotron institute postdoctoral research associate dr cody parker a key member of the collaboration with expertise in neutron detector development assisted the ohio team with optimizing the neutron beam for precise measurement performing neutron-induced reactions is a complicated effort and not something you can do every day because you cant simply make a neutron beam parker said a lot of people were involved in making this possible were grateful for their contributions and are pleased with the outcome washington university nuclear chemist and principal investigator dr lee sobotka first proposed the idea of utilizing a time-projection chamber to determine the influence of neutrons on the triple-alpha process to his co-collaborators in 2017 time-projection chambers like texat typically are used to construct visual renderings of the trajectories of rare isotope beams and the products of nuclear reactions induced by those beams using one to explore nuclear reactions with neutrons as in this instance however is an undertaking thats never before been done this experiment married a very special tool an active-target time-projection chamber with a low-energy accelerator capable of producing near mono-energetic neutrons sobotka said its a first-of-its-kind union that provided the answer to a question first posed 55 years ago on the making of the seed for heavy-element synthesis the teams paper neutron-upscattering enhancement of the triple-alpha process can be viewed online along with related figures and captions their work was supported by the department of energys national nuclear security administration and office of science the national science foundation the science and technology facilities council and the center for excellence in nuclear training and university-based research (centaur) a multi-institutional effort led by texas a&m that seeks to support collaborative research efforts in the area of low-energy nuclear science to learn more about rogachev and his research group visit https://physicstamuedu/directory/grigory-rogachev/ see additional photographs of texat and the texas a&m teams 2020 trip to ohio courtesy of jack bishop
# # # # # # # # # # about the cyclotron institute: dedicated in 1967 the cyclotron institute serves as the core of texas a&m universitys accelerator-based nuclear science and technology program affiliated faculty members from the department of chemistry and the department of physics and astronomy conduct nuclear physics- and chemistry-based research and radiation testing within a broad-based globally recognized interdisciplinary platform supported by the united states department of energy (doe) in conjunction with the state of texas and the welch foundation the facility is one of five doe-designated centers of excellence and is home to one of only five k500 or larger superconducting cyclotrons worldwide to learn more visit https://cyclotrontamuedu/ about centaur: the center for excellence in nuclear training and university-based research (centaur) is a multi-institutional effort supported by a five-year $10 million stewardship science academic alliances (ssaa) grant from the department of energys national nuclear security administration (doe/nnsa) centaur pursues basic research in low-energy nuclear science through experimental theoretical and technical programs using accelerators at texas a&ms cyclotron institute and florida state universitys john d fox superconducting linear accelerator laboratory as well as facilities at the other partner institutions which include texas a&m university florida state university washington university in st louis the university of washington louisiana state university and the university of notre dame to learn more visit https://centaurtamuedu/ about research at texas a&m university: as one of the worlds leading research institutions texas a&m is at the forefront in making significant contributions to scholarship and discovery including science and technology research conducted at texas a&m generated annual expenditures of more than $1131 billion in fiscal year 2020 texas a&m ranked in the top 25 of the most recent national science foundation higher education research and development survey based on expenditures of more than $952 million in fiscal year 2019 texas a&ms research creates new knowledge that provides basic fundamental and applied contributions resulting in economic benefits to the state nation and world to learn more visit research@texas a&m
dr dana randall advance professor of computing and adjunct professor of mathematics at the georgia institute of technology will visit the texas a&m university campus next week to present two public lectures in conjunction with the dr carl cj maxson endowed lecture series sponsored by the department of mathematics randall who also serves as co-executive director of the institute for data engineering and science (ideas) at georgia tech will present phase transitions in sampling algorithms and applications on monday (apr 25) followed by emergent phenomena in programmable matter on tuesday (apr 26) both lectures are scheduled for 4 pm in room 117 of the john r blocker building (see abstracts for both presentations) randall received her ab in mathematics from harvard university in 1988 and her phd in computer science from the university of california at berkeley in 1994 her research in randomized algorithms and stochastic processes bridges computer science discrete mathematics and statistical physics a fellow of the american mathematical society and a national associate of the national academies randall is a former sloan fellow and national science foundation faculty early career development (career) award recipient she has been the program chair for the siam symposium on discrete algorithms in 2011 as well as the siam conference on discrete mathematics in 2016 in addition she previously served as director of the algorithms and randomness center at georgia tech the maxson lecture series honors texas a&m professor emeritus carl cj maxson a member of the texas a&m mathematics faculty from 1969 until his retirement in 2002 the annual event was established in october 2005 through a generous endowment from dr ponnammal natarajan 74 an eminent faculty member at rajalakshmi engineering college in chennai india who earned her doctorate in mathematics from texas a&m in 1974 in addition to being dr maxsons first doctoral student natarajan is the first female to ever receive a phd in mathematics from texas a&m which was an all-male university until 1963 each year the series features experts in areas of current interest in algebra combinatorics number theory and theoretical computer science for more information on either event contact the department of mathematics at (979) 845-7554
be it high winds and utility outages local flooding or an active shooter when disaster strikes multiple agencies and non-government organizations respond the cutting-edge technologies multifaceted logistics and collaborative efforts required to ensure optimum coordination of that response will be on full display next week during the public safety interoperability institute 2022 (interop22) set for may 2-6 at disaster city® on the texas a&m university campus and hosted by the texas a&m internet2 technology evaluation center (itec) interop22 will feature a workshop exercise and sold-out technology expo that organizers say collectively aim to identify and exercise best practices and technologies to support wireless communications and coordination between and among responding agencies and organizations no matter how challenging the circumstances the institute is sponsored by verizon wireless wi-fiber firstnet by at&t t-mobile airbus and mobility 4 public safety this years institute is focused on six technology themes illustrated through three different exercise scenarios including a hurricane with loss of commercial communications an active shooter scenario and a local flood event scenario the technology themes being discussed at the workshop and exercised relate to mission critical push to talk federated identity credentialing and access management (icam) inter-jurisdictional messaging safecom information sharing framework (isf) drone video sharing and next generation 911 and public safety broadband network interoperability interop22 is a collaborative workshop and exercise planned in partnership with agencies and organizations from throughout texas and the united states previously known as the winter institute itec renamed interoperability institute to better reflect the focus on achieving seamless communications between response agencies texas a&m itecs planning partners for the 2022 event include the texas military department texas department of public safety texas a&m university police us department of homeland security texas a&m engineering extension service harris county texas texas division of emergency management firstnet authority brazos county 911 district and american red cross for additional information about the institute including the full agenda and speaker profiles visit the interop22 website about itec: the texas a&m internet2 technology evaluation center a center within the academy for advanced telecommunications and learning technologies was established by the texas a&m university system board of regents in 2004 as an integral part of the research agenda at texas a&m university operating under a memorandum of understanding with internet2 itecs focus is real time communications (rtc) itec began by working on emergency communications projects but has since evolved into one of the premier emergency communications academic research centers in the world to learn more visit the internet2 technology evaluation center website