2009 M.S. graduate wins best poster at European meeting
Eva Wadoski, who received her M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from the University of Maine in August, 2009, was awarded a European Mineralogical Union (EMU) Poster Prize for her poster “Stepwise dehydration of goosecreekite: a structural study” co-authored with Thomas Armbruster, Biljana Lazic and Martin Fisch at the 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Budapest, Hungary; August 21-27, 2010. The EMU has been awarding Poster Prizes at relevant international conferences to young scientists working in the mineralogical sciences and related disciplines. Eva was one of the three selected to receive the award in Budapest.
The poster reported a portion of Eva’s Ph.D. thesis research at the Mineralogical Crystallography Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland. Eva’s M. Sc. thesis research at Maine, under the supervision of Professor Ed Grew, was a mineralogical study of tourmaline and other borosilicate minerals in pegmatites from the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica.