EAS Newsletter

From the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced for Fall 2024

Three Students Receive Funding Awards to Carry Out and Publish Research

The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Research Grants Program awards funds to students to carry out and publish research. Each semester, $5,000 is available, with up to $2,500 awarded per student.

Fall 2024 Recipients
Fall 2024 recipients of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Student Research Grants Program Awards (from left): Mohammad Jahirul Alam, Poorna Srinivasan, and Daniel Ragusa.

Students may apply each semester but may only receive one award per degree in EAS. The selection committee is Regina Capuano, Dan Hauptvogel, Xun Jiang, Shuhab Khan, and Julia Wellner (chair).

Fall 2024 Recipients

Mohammad Jahirul Alam
Method Development, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Study of their Partitioning between Air and Water Using Chromatographic Techniques
Advisor: Bernhard Rappenglueck
$2,150

Daniel Ragusa
Tracking the Water pH and Atmospheric CO2 Evolution During Synthetic Carbonate Precipitation
Advisor: Voary Voarintsoa
$285

Poorna Srinivasan
Geochemical Constraints on the Generation and Kinetics of Natural Energy Resources
Advisor: Qi Fu
$2,500