UMaine Students Compete in IGERT Video, Poster Contest

Two entries from University of Maine graduate students have been submitted into the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program’s 2013 Video and Poster Competition.

Maureen Correll and Bjorn Grigholm, graduate students in the Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change IGERT program at UMaine, submitted a video and poster titled “Abrupt Climate Change in Atlantic Tidal Marsh Communities.”

Melinda Neville, a graduate student in the Sensor Science, Engineering, and Informatics (SSEI) IGERT program at UMaine, entered media for her project “Mercury (Hg) Research Ontology: Employing Informatics in Geochemistry.”

The contest is open to graduate students from IGERT programs across the country and invites them to share videos and posters describing their innovative and interdisciplinary research and its significance. The competition features 119 presentations made by students nominated from IGERT Ph.D. programs, the contest website states. Judging will be done by 50 IGERT faculty members who will announce 20–25 winners Friday, May 24. Community Choice and Public Choice winners will also be chosen. The general public can vote for their favorite entries online.

The videos submitted by the UMaine students can be seen online.