{"id":157044,"date":"2020-04-29T23:49:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=157044"},"modified":"2020-04-29T23:49:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:49:24","slug":"gso-students-ri-space-grant-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/news\/gso-students-ri-space-grant-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Two GSO Ph.D. students awarded R.I. Space Grant fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Nickford and Laura Glastra, two University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography students, have been awarded Graduate Student Fellowships from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/initiatives\/ri-space-grant\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a program that provides support to student researchers in a NASA-related field of study.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/sarah-nickford\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Nickford<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Ph.D. student at GSO, focusing on physical oceanography and biogeochemistry. Prior to joining GSO, Nickford received a B.S. in atmospheric and ocean science as well as an M.S. in physical oceanography from Stony Brook University. Nickford\u2019s fellowship support will allow her to use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/news\/wind-powered-ocean-drone-launched-from-newport\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saildrone observations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in conjunction with NASA satellite data. Her research objective is to quantify and produce a mechanistic understanding of wintertime air-to-sea CO2 exchange in the Gulf Stream and the subtropical mode water formation region. This will be accomplished by establishing relationships between ocean pCO2 and satellite-derived variables.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/laura-k-glastra\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laura Glastra<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Ph.D. student at GSO with a focus on physical oceanography. Prior to her time at GSO, Glastra received a B.S. in chemistry, a B.A. in physics as well as a minor in mathematics from Pacific Lutheran University. The research supported by R.I. Space Grant will allow Glastra to further examine the molecular processes and properties that control solute exclusion from ice during freezing. Along with this, Glastra will be examining how ice crystallography is influenced by solutes. Glastra\u2019s research will help scientists better understand the biogeochemistry in the ocean worlds of our solar system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Operating from Brown University since 1991, the NASA RI Space Grant Consortium (RISG) uses space-related science as a means for enhancing scientific literacy among educators and their students. RISG is committed to promoting science, technology, engineering and math at all levels, using NASA space exploration and research to gain interest and enthusiasm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Nickford and Laura Glastra, two University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography students have been awarded Graduate Student Fellowships from the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[789,316,2520],"class_list":["post-157044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gso-student","tag-physical-oceanography","tag-ri-space-grant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157056,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157044\/revisions\/157056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}