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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2017 Recipient: Bingjie Ouyang, Earth Sciences

    May 21, 2018
    Alumni Award Recipient Bingjie Ouyang

    In the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for oil and gas extraction directly from black shale, large volumes of wastewater, that includes fracturing fluids and natural brines from the underground rock formation, return to the surface within weeks after fracking. The total volume of wastewater production in Pennsylvania alone has exceeded 40 million barrels per year since 2012, and the number has been increasing. The wastewaters are often highly saline and contain elevated concentrations of radium (Ra) (up to 7000 pCi/L) and barium (Ba) (up to 10000 ppm).

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2017 Recipient: Keith J. Fritschie, EEES

    May 16, 2018
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    In mid-October, among a parade of fallen leaves, I snorkeled the reach of the Dead Diamond River where Second College Grant historian Jack Noon ’68 thought I might find spawning fish. Dorsal vermiculation and yellow spots on a green background helped brook trout hide among the gravels, woody debris, and dappling sunlight that patterned the riverbed. Thankfully, after 20 minutes of searching, the white fins and blaze orange bellies of male brook trout revealed their spawning location.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2017 Recipient: Virginia T. Wala, Earth Sciences

    May 11, 2018
    Field camp site on St. Jonsfjorden, Svalbard

    The rugged, glaciated, coast of Svalbard, Arctic Norway, contains a record of extreme climate changes, the formation and demise of a supercontinent, and the keys to understanding the plate tectonic evolution of the Arctic (Hoffman et al., 2012; Gasser & Andresen, 2013). In 2016 and 2017, I travelled to southwestern Svalbard to sample, map, and document the rock record and uncover the geological history of this small island archipelago. Support from the Alumni Grant Award allowed me to date previously undated rock strata of southwestern Svalbard.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2017 Recipient: Matteo Visconti, PBS

    April 26, 2018
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    Faces convey an astounding quantity of information that facilitates social interactions. Through faces, we can distinguish and recognize identities, accurately detect social cues that signal emotion and direction of attention, and we can make categorical judgments of gender, age, and ethnicity. The multiple streams of information we gather from faces are essential to navigate our complex social lives. How our brain represents this information is the focus of my Ph.D. research in Dr. M.

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