NSF travel award to Ph.D. student Bess Koffman
Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute Ph.D. student Bess Koffman was recently awarded an NSF travel grant to support development of a postdoctoral research proposal. After she completes her doctoral degree, Koffman plans to continue work on using particulate matter in snow and ice cores to better understand the complex relationships between atmospheric circulation and climate, with a focus on the southern hemisphere. As part of her planning, she visited Cornell University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
This grant program is a component of the NSF-OPP Polar Regions Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, which “supports training and research for recent doctoral degree recipients in any aspect of scientific study of the Antarctic and/or the Arctic within the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) program areas (http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OPP). The program also provides travel grants to those eligible for fellowships for the purpose of meeting prospective mentors and colleagues, presenting seminars, discussing mutual research and/or education interests, evaluating facilities and professional development opportunities, and initiating collaborative relationships.”
More details of Bess’s award are at: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1143661