 On Wednesday August 1, 2018, Vermont EPSCoR awarded Native American and First Generation Scholarships to undergraduate students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) during a ceremony held in the Senate Chambers at the Vermont State House in Montpelier, VT. Five awards were made to meritorious students from Burlington, Newport, Addison and Bellows Falls. The students are seeking degrees in Engineering , Integrated Biological Sciences and Medical Laboratory Sciences from Norwich University, Vermont Technical College and the University of Vermont.
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VT EPSCoR Updates
Clelia Marti, PhD has officially joined Vermont EPSCoR and the University of Vermont as a Research Assistant Professor with the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. She is currently contributing to the development of a fully 3D coupled physical and biogeochemical model of Lake Champlain as part of the Vermont EPSCoR Basin Resilience to Extreme Events (BREE) project.
ST. ALBANS – The St. Albans Area Watershed Association (SAAWA) annual meeting featured updates from several environment- and water-related projects in their namesake watershed. The headlining presentation was from University of Vermont Associate Professor Andrew Schroth, a geologist studying algal blooms in St. Albans and Missisquoi Bays with a small array of VT EPSCoR research buoys.
Dr. Rick Stumpf from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Center for Coastal Ocean Science presented a seminar and then met with interested BREE researchers on September 17, 2018. The title of his seminar was "Satellites and Cyanobacteria Monitoring in Lake Erie and Elsewhere."
Dr. Stumpf is one of the world's foremost experts on satellite monitoring of cyanobacteria blooms. He has played a major role in developing the bloom forecasting systems for Lake Erie and elsewhere around the country. The seminar and subsequent interactions between BREE researchers and Dr. Stumpf could further collaboration with the Lake Champlain and Lake Erie systems.
Vermont EPSCoR GRA Kevin Andrew attended the San Diego Supercomputing Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) from August 6-10, 2018 for their Summer Institute Workshop. Kevin was able to attend because of a student travel grant he received through the program, which covered the majority of costs, including room and board on UCSD's campus for the week of the workshop.
The workshop introduced researchers in both academic and industry fields to the usage, programming, and optimization of software for supercomputers, high performance computers (HPCs) and devices enabled for use with a graphics processing unit (GPU).
Kristen Underwood, a GRA with the RACC project, delivered her PhD dissertation on Friday, August 24, 2018. The title of the dissertation was "Smart Classification and Bayesian Inference for Evaluating River Sensitivity to Natural and Human Disturbances: A Data Science Approach."
VT EPSCoR members Donna Rizzo and Mandar Dewoolkar served as co-advisors during Underwood's PhD studies. The abstract for her defense can be found below.
