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barbara bayer honored with presidents meritorious service awardbayer was one of only two supervisors awarded from throughout the entire universityapr 13 2018barbara bayer assistant dean for finance and administration in the college of geosciences was honored with a 2018 presidents meritorious service award (photo by chris mouchyn)texas a&m university president michael k young has announced the recipients of the 2018 presidents meritorious service awards this year 25 individual staff members two supervisors and two teams were recognized for their service to texas a&m barbara bayer assistant dean for finance and administration in the college of geosciences was honored with a supervisor award these prestigious awards recognize and rewards staff who have demonstrated their commitment to the aggie core values of excellence integrity leadership loyalty respect and selfless service barbara bayer epitomizes selfless service wrote dr debbie thomas interim dean of the college of geosciences in her nomination letter every single dimension of the education research and engagement enterprises of our institution relies on the accounting and human resources functions that barbara supervises barbara has distinguished herself by performing all of these functions with impeccable transparency equity and fiscal responsibility in short she is the epitome of a team player because she is the perfect coach all university employees as well as chartwells and ssc services for education employees are invited to the award ceremony honoring these outstanding staff members the ceremony will be held on april 23 at 3:30 pm in the msc bethancourt ballroom a reception with refreshments will follow the ceremony and serve as the official kick-off for staff appreciation week at texas a&m read the full list of recipients by leslie lee ‘09
barbara bayer assistant dean for finance and administration in the college of geosciences was honored with a 2018 presidents meritorious service award (photo by chris mouchyn)
texas a&m university president michael k young has announced the recipients of the 2018 presidents meritorious service awards this year 25 individual staff members two supervisors and two teams were recognized for their service to texas a&m barbara bayer assistant dean for finance and administration in the college of geosciences was honored with a supervisor award these prestigious awards recognize and rewards staff who have demonstrated their commitment to the aggie core values of excellence integrity leadership loyalty respect and selfless service barbara bayer epitomizes selfless service wrote dr debbie thomas interim dean of the college of geosciences in her nomination letter every single dimension of the education research and engagement enterprises of our institution relies on the accounting and human resources functions that barbara supervises barbara has distinguished herself by performing all of these functions with impeccable transparency equity and fiscal responsibility in short she is the epitome of a team player because she is the perfect coach all university employees as well as chartwells and ssc services for education employees are invited to the award ceremony honoring these outstanding staff members the ceremony will be held on april 23 at 3:30 pm in the msc bethancourt ballroom a reception with refreshments will follow the ceremony and serve as the official kick-off for staff appreciation week at texas a&m read the full list of recipients by leslie lee ‘09
group photo of all the researchers aboard on r/v trident on march 24 (photo by: chris mouchyn)
on march 24 dr jessica fitzsimmons assistant professor in the department of oceanography at texas a&m university led aggie oceanographers aboard the r/v trident for a one-day cruise in galveston bay a range of undergraduate and graduate students from the department of oceanography and other collaborative departments were involved in this cruise to study the ocean environment along the texas coast the main goal of this cruise was to answer the big question – what were the effects of hurricane harvey on galveston bay said fitzsimmons the first cruise in this series of research cruises was in june 2017 led by dr shari yvon-lewis who is a professor and also the oceanography department head as an opportunity for her graduate students and collaborating students to collect and analyze samples then hurricane harvey hit texas a few months later in late august 2017 since then fitzsimmons yvon-lewis and other research faculty in the department of oceanography have gathered high impact learning and research funds to continuously visit their ocean backyard galveston bay not only to provide access to the ocean to collect samples but also to develop a collaborative research team to explore the coastal oceans response to contaminants released during hurricane harvey two more cruises were completed in september 2017 soon after harvey and in november 2017 to assess how the ecosystem in galveston bay had recovered from harvey the march 2018 outing was the fourth such cruise to visit galveston bay more than half a year after harvey the march cruise was meant to capture the final time point in the seasonality of galveston bay said fitzsimmons now we have a complete dataset over all four seasons including wet and dry seasons and also immediately following hurricane harvey
graduate student laramie jensen (left) from the department of oceanography sampling seawater from pump and undergraduate student alexa mendoza (right) from the department of chemistry (photo by: bumsoo kim)dr shari von-lewis (left) and her graduate student stanford goodwin (right) from the department of oceanography collecting seawater sample from niskin bottle (photo by: bumsoo kim)
undergraduate student reagan lucas from department of chemistry lowering the pump line (photo by: bumsoo kim)graduate student damian simonini (left) from the department of oceangoraphy and jerry chen (right) from department of civil engineering collecting sediment sample from grab (photo by: bumsoo kim)
during the cruise students collected various environmental samples from seawater and the sediments at each station a ctd (conductivity temperature depth) sensor instrument was deployed to measure temperature salinity and depth of the water column and a secchi disk was deployed to measure turbidity seawater was sampled from a niskin bottle to measure various biogeochemical parameters including dissolved oxygen inorganic and organic carbon ph bacterial and phytoplankton abundances toxic contaminants and pollutants etc also samples for trace metals (such as dissolved iron and toxic lead) macronutrients petroleum oil compounds and suspended particles were collected using a pump deployed into the seawater from both the surface and near the seafloor sediment samples were collected by manually lowering a grab sampler to measure toxic heavy metals bacteria and organic abundances a symposium effects of hurricane harvey on galveston bay was held on jan 19 by the department of oceanography to introduce the cruises successful progress and results the symposium was attended by students faculty staff and local stakeholders including texas sea grant through this opportunity like never before we were able to unite our graduate students and faculty to access the ocean fitzsimmons said throughout the oceanography program and across the college of geosciences we are all interested in accessing the ocean we all have these small ideas that we need access to seawater in order to explore for example sampling and analytical methods tests calibrating and testing oceanography instruments and designing new experiments we now have that opportunity in our ocean backyard we can get our students to gain experience and get trained at both the undergraduate and graduate levels it is really exciting through this program we have developed a seasonal snapshot of a small but important anthropogenically-influenced ocean body galveston bay we have incredible coverage of a large suite of contaminant and biogeochemical parameters that are coming together into a great story following hurricane harvey they are open to any other faculty or researchers interested in collaborating with their interdisciplinary research team fitzsimmons said
dr jessica fitzsimmons and her students (photo by: bumsoo kim)dr shari von-lewis and her students (photo by: bumsoo kim)
in addition to yvon-lewis and fitzsimmons these collaborative researchers have supported and were involved in this study: drs kathryn shamberger daniel thornton and gerardo gold bouchot in the department of oceanography and dr kung-hui (bella) chu in the department of civil engineering they are also collaborating with researchers at texas a&m galveston led by dr antonietta quigg
phillip fitzsimmons preparing lunch for the students (photo by: bumsoo kim)group photo in the kitchen of r/v trident (photo by: bumsoo kim)
2018 geosciences scholarship appreciation celebrationthe 2018 geosciences scholarship appreciation celebration honored scholarship donors and recipients for the yearapr 6 2018thank you to all of our generous and passionate donors and inspiring student scholarship recipients who joined us for our 2018 geosciences scholarship appreciation celebration! this festive event was held on april 6 at the clayton w williams jr alumni center home of the association of former studentsfull resolution photos and additional photos are available for download here: txag/geo2018banquet
thank you to all of our generous and passionate donors and inspiring student scholarship recipients who joined us for our 2018 geosciences scholarship appreciation celebration! this festive event was held on april 6 at the clayton w williams jr alumni center home of the association of former studentsfull resolution photos and additional photos are available for download here: txag/geo2018banquet
kaylin krienke senior environmental geosciences major and her grandfather dr jon botsford '75 (photo courtesy of kaylin krienke)krienke's hometown experienced major flooding after hurricane harvey (photo courtesy of kaylin krienke)
over half a year ago hurricane harvey came barreling into the texas coast with the force of a category 4 storm the storm caused loss of life and massive amounts of damage throughout many texas cities including numerous aggies hometowns senior environmental geosciences major kaylin krienke was among the thousands of people affected by the storm her hometown of kingwood texas was one of the many cities near houston that experienced major flooding kingwood high school was so severely flooded that it was not able to reopen until march 19 2018 how this geosciences student decided to help krienke was a choir member during her high school years there and was touched when she found out how much the program had lost to flooding they lost everything in the flood all of their music all of their supplies equipment and stuff and they dont really have a huge budget to begin with she explained so she decided to do something about it
kingwood high school inundated by floodwaters caused by the hurricane (photo courtesy of kaylin krienke)the kingwood heb grocery store also flooded (photo courtesy of kaylin krienke)
there was a boy that lived not far from where i live and his house got very badly flooded krienke said he had a grand piano and they were throwing it away one day while he was waiting for the bus he was playing it sitting on the curb because he had a concert not long after and needed to practice seeing that touched my family's heart we thought about how these people had lost everything and then we thought about how the school had lost everything so we decided to put on a benefit concert for the fine arts department of the school to raise money the concert was held jan 20 and successfully raised $1 500 for the schools fine arts and over 300 people attended krienke helped support the fundraiser through developing event marketing and social media campaigns that helped communicate the devastation harvey had caused one of the other things that our community really suffered from is that we had just gotten a brand new heb krienke said it got several feet of water in it and they had to completely rebuild that was the location of our charity concert although her own home was spared from flooding krienke said her relatives homes in matagorda were flooded and her fathers business in south houston was also flooded it affected everything around me she said aggie excellence is a family tradition krienke is a third-generation aggie her father ken krienke graduated from texas a&m in 1984 and her grandfather had earned his phd at texas a&m in 1972 her grandfather dr jon botsford became a professor in the department of engineering technology and taught a manufacturing class at texas a&m for 20 years when krienke began at texas a&m she was a different major but after taking an environmental science elective she quickly realized that her passions were in environmental geoscience the people that i was around in that class were so passionate about the environment and wanting to do good in the world that it really inspired me; it was a no-brainer to switch over and ive been really happy ever since after graduating this may krienke is considering beginning her career before possibly pursuing graduate school i would like to get out and explore the world before i go back to school she said krienke hopes to find a career that involves a lot of field work i have a real passion for handling samples and just getting your hands dirty so i hope to find a job with a lot of that if you would like to help krienkes high school you can donate to this fund by taylor fuechec
rasoulkhani wins texas sea grant award at texas a&ms 21st annual student research weekmar 28 2018a doctoral student whose research focuses on the resilience of urban water infrastructure is the recipient of the second texas sea grant special award at last weeks texas a&m university (tamu) student research week (srw) kambiz rasoulkhani a civil engineering phd candidate in the zachry department of civil engineering received the $250 prize for his poster presentation towards resilient urban water infrastructure system rasoulkhani is conducting his research under the mentorship of dr ali mostafavi rasoulkhanis study sought to evaluate how the long-term resilience of urban water infrastructure systems changes in response to common stressors such as infrastructure age and climate change his research could help communities anticipate potential points of failure in their water infrastructure and save money by building sturdier infrastructure systems in the future srw is a four-day event highlighting research at the university with a special emphasis on student participation the program provides a venue for students to share their work through oral presentations and posters and it also gives the university community an opportunity to see the breadth and depth of research conducted at tamu texas sea grant offers the special award each year to honor the undergraduate or graduate student from any discipline who submits the most outstanding oral presentation or poster that shows the most innovative yet practical research that exemplifies the focus areas of texas sea grant: resilient communities and economies sustainable fisheries and aquaculture healthy coastal ecosystems and stem education and workforce development tamus srw is the largest single-university student-run research symposium it is hosted by the graduate and professional student council this was the 21st year of the program
a doctoral student whose research focuses on the resilience of urban water infrastructure is the recipient of the second texas sea grant special award at last weeks texas a&m university (tamu) student research week (srw) kambiz rasoulkhani a civil engineering phd candidate in the zachry department of civil engineering received the $250 prize for his poster presentation towards resilient urban water infrastructure system rasoulkhani is conducting his research under the mentorship of dr ali mostafavi rasoulkhanis study sought to evaluate how the long-term resilience of urban water infrastructure systems changes in response to common stressors such as infrastructure age and climate change his research could help communities anticipate potential points of failure in their water infrastructure and save money by building sturdier infrastructure systems in the future srw is a four-day event highlighting research at the university with a special emphasis on student participation the program provides a venue for students to share their work through oral presentations and posters and it also gives the university community an opportunity to see the breadth and depth of research conducted at tamu texas sea grant offers the special award each year to honor the undergraduate or graduate student from any discipline who submits the most outstanding oral presentation or poster that shows the most innovative yet practical research that exemplifies the focus areas of texas sea grant: resilient communities and economies sustainable fisheries and aquaculture healthy coastal ecosystems and stem education and workforce development tamus srw is the largest single-university student-run research symposium it is hosted by the graduate and professional student council this was the 21st year of the program
conlee and dessler honored with university-level distinguished achievement awardstwo college of geosciences professors have been recognized for their exemplary teaching and research accomplishmentsmar 20 2018texas a&m university and the association of former students have announced the 2018 university-level distinguished achievement awards recipients in the college of geosciences dr don t conlee 94 instructional professor in the department of atmospheric sciences received a distinguished achievement award for teaching and dr andrew dessler atmospheric sciences professor and the reta a haynes chair in geosciences received a distinguished achievement award for researchdr don t conleedr andrew desslertwenty-four outstanding members of texas a&ms faculty and staff will be honored with distinguished achievement awards which were first presented in 1955 and have since been awarded to more than 1 000 professionals who have exhibited the highest standards of excellence at texas a&m dr conlee is one of the most effective and engaging educators with whom i have had the privilege to work said dr debbie thomas interim dean of the college of geosciences when we ask our graduating students who in the college had the greatest positive impact on their educational professional and personal development during their years at texas a&m dr conlees influence clearly shines through the distinguished achievement award is such a beautiful tribute to dr conlees impact – we are so thrilled for him! dr desslers passion for advancing our understanding of climate change is truly inspiring thomas said he is a gifted scholar with the equally important ability to make scientific advances in this challenging discipline accessible to anyone interested in the future of our planet we are so fortunate to have his intellect and communications skills at the forefront of this science and so fortunate to have him on the texas a&m team the awards will be formally presented at 10 am on april 27 during ceremonies in rudder theatre at texas a&m in recognition of their achievements each recipient will receive a cash gift an engraved watch and a commemorative plaque learn more about conlees teaching and research read more about desslers teaching and research by leslie lee 09
texas a&m university and the association of former students have announced the 2018 university-level distinguished achievement awards recipients in the college of geosciences dr don t conlee 94 instructional professor in the department of atmospheric sciences received a distinguished achievement award for teaching and dr andrew dessler atmospheric sciences professor and the reta a haynes chair in geosciences received a distinguished achievement award for research
twenty-four outstanding members of texas a&ms faculty and staff will be honored with distinguished achievement awards which were first presented in 1955 and have since been awarded to more than 1 000 professionals who have exhibited the highest standards of excellence at texas a&m dr conlee is one of the most effective and engaging educators with whom i have had the privilege to work said dr debbie thomas interim dean of the college of geosciences when we ask our graduating students who in the college had the greatest positive impact on their educational professional and personal development during their years at texas a&m dr conlees influence clearly shines through the distinguished achievement award is such a beautiful tribute to dr conlees impact – we are so thrilled for him! dr desslers passion for advancing our understanding of climate change is truly inspiring thomas said he is a gifted scholar with the equally important ability to make scientific advances in this challenging discipline accessible to anyone interested in the future of our planet we are so fortunate to have his intellect and communications skills at the forefront of this science and so fortunate to have him on the texas a&m team the awards will be formally presented at 10 am on april 27 during ceremonies in rudder theatre at texas a&m in recognition of their achievements each recipient will receive a cash gift an engraved watch and a commemorative plaque learn more about conlees teaching and research read more about desslers teaching and research by leslie lee 09
did unusual ocean conditions contribute to hurricane harveys intense rainfall and flood and if so how dr steven dimarco professor in the department of oceanography at texas a&m university and dr henry potter associate professor in the same department and dr arnoldo valle-levinson professor in the department of civil and coastal engineering at university of florida answered these questions and presented new studies at the american geophysical union (agu) press conference during the ocean sciences meeting (osm) in portland oregon on feb 18 the studies focused on the impact of harvey on the gulf of mexico many aggie oceanography researchers and students participated in research cruises aboard various research vessels which included the r/v point sur r/v trident r/v lithos and the r/v manta before and after harvey
students collecting samples onboard the r/v point sur (photo courtesy of dr henry potter)