Group Achievement Award
September 2, 2009
A NASA Group Achievement Award was presented to Ralph Kahn, Lorraine Remer, Allen Chu (UMBC/JCET), Charles Gatebe (UMBC/GEST) and others for outstanding accomplishments in the successful Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) mission in Alaska and Canada. Full Story

Summer Student News
September 1, 2009
University of Nebraska-Lincoln geosciences graduate student David Peterson has received a prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, which will fund three years of doctoral research. Peterson, who will finish his master's degree in meteorology this fall, studies the causes of wildfires in the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska. He will continue his research as a doctoral student, using satellite images provided by NASA to study fires caused by dry lightning strikes, in an effort to improve overall forecasting of fire weather. Mr. Peterson was mentored by GEST Visiting Fellow Jun Wang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Charles Ichoku (613.2) and Lorraine Remer (613.2) during the 2008 Graduate Student Summer Program at Goddard.

Karandana Thishan Dharshana, a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), working with Charles Ichoku this summer on "Analysis of Errors Associated with the Estimation of Smoke Emission Rates from Satellite Fire Radiative Power Measurements over North America" has received the UWM Chancellor's Graduate Student Award for the second consecutive year. The award is intended to attract and retain graduate students with exceptional academic records and high promise of future success.
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