Awards Won By Graduate Students

2022 - Bethany Sutherland was awarded NNASA FINESST21 Fellowship for her research on Estimates of PM2.5 concentration and chemical composition by application of KORUS-AQ High Spectral Resolution Lidar retrievals and CATCH algorithm.

2022 - Bethany Sutherland was awarded $1,000 travel support to present her research at The 10th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC10) in St. Louis, MI, June 6-10, 2022

2020 - Bethany Sutherland was awarded NC Space Grant for the Graduate Research Fellowship program. Her research is titled "Quantification of the direct radiative effect of aerosols using HSRL and model-derived aerosol types".

2019 - Xinyi Ling was awarded $1,000 travel support to present her research at The 9th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC9) in Cambridge, MA, May 6-9, 2019

2018 - Xinyi Ling was awarded the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for her research on Improving the accuracy of ground-level fine aerosol concentration estimates by using novel remote sensing techniques.

2017 - Velayudhan Praju Kiliyanpilakkil was awarded $750 travel support to participate in ACOM/ACCORD Fire Data Analysis Workshop from July 13 to 14, 2017 at Boulder, CO.

2017 - Velayudhan Praju Kiliyanpilakkil was awarded $1,000 travel support to participate in The 8th international GEOS-Chem meeting (AGC8) in Cambridge, MA

2015 – Kyle Dawson was awarded $4,500 NASA – AMES Invited summer research fellowship, Mentor: Meloë Kacenelenbogen, Project: Comparison of aerosol types derived from active remote sensing (lidar) to passive remote sensing (AERONET) during the SEAC4RS and DISCOVER-AQ field campaigns.

2013 – Kyle Dawson was awarded $4,000 NASA – Langley Aerospace Research Student Scholarship (LARSS). Mentor: Yongxiang Hu, Project: Lidar Analysis of Marine aerosol during the AZORES campaign.

2011 –Matthew Johnson was awarded $1,200 travel support to participate in First International Workshop on the Long-Range Transport and Impacts of African Dust on the Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2011 – Brett Gantt was awarded $1,100 travel support travel support to participate in Goldschmidt2011, August 14-19, Prague, Czech Republic.

2011 – Matthew Johnson was awarded $750 travel support to participate in The 5th International GEOS–Chem Meeting, May 2-5, Cambridge, MA.

2010 – Brett Gantt was awarded $700 travel support A-TRAIN Symposium Scholarship to participate in the international A-TRAIN 2010 meeting on October 24 to 28, New Orleans, LA.

2010 – Brett Gantt was awarded the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for the 2010 -2013 academic year. His research is titled “Defining the Role of Ocean Biology and Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Surface Layer to Marine Cloud Properties and Global Climate”.

2010 – Brett Gantt was awarded $1,300 for his invited oral presentation at the early career session of the Biogenic Hydrocarbon Gordon Research Conference, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

2009 – Alyssa Sabolis was awarded a $6,000 NC Space Grant Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year for improved characterization of marine biogenic isoprene fluxes from the NC coast using remotely sensed data. The NC Space Grant is a part of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program established by the U.S. Congress and implemented by NASA.

2009 – Matthew Johnson was awarded summer fellowship $4,000 (with housing and travel allowances) for Graduate Student Summer Program in Earth System Science 2009 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC). This prestigious program is designed to stimulate interest in interdisciplinary Earth sciences studies by enabling selected students to carry out an intensive research project at GSFC's Earth Sciences Division.

2008 – Matthew Johnson was awarded a $6,000 NC Space Grant Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year to update mineral dust source locations in Patagonia using satellite remotely sensed data. The updated sources were used in the GEOS-Chem model with improved dust source regions and nested grid formulation for better quantification of dust and iron deposition to the Southern Oceans and the role of South American dust in carbon sequestration and climate transitions.

2009 – Brett Gantt was awarded $12,000 EPA's National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) Fellowship for the summer of 2008. He went to EPA's RTP office to design and implement a research project that furthers the knowledge base of the critical linkages between ecosystems and air quality. The project goal is to improve the scientific justification for secondary standards of criteria pollutants such as sulfur dioxide.

2007 – Matthew Johnson was awarded $1,500 to attend Multidisciplinary Workshop on South American Dust and its Role in Past and Present Climate, Puerto Madryn, Argentina, 2007

Awards Won By Undergraduate Students Supervised

2016 – Michel Mugrage was awarded NC State University Undergraduate Research Grant to study Central American Biomass Burning and its Effect on Convective Thunderstorms in the Southeastern United States.

2013 – David Hurley received a $750 undergraduate award grant from NC State University for his research related to iron biogeochemistry in the ocean.

2013 – David Hurley received $500 an undergraduate travel grant to present his research at AGU meeting of the Americas, Cancun, Mexico.

2009 – Matthew Igel received Travel Grant for the AMS conference in Phoenix, AZ.

2008 – Matthew Igel received $1,000 Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association Scholarship.

2008 – Matthew Igel received a $1,000 NCSU Undergraduate Research Award Grant.

2008 – Matthew Igel received a $700 Travel Grant for the AMS conference in Orlando, FL.

2009 – Adele Lichtenberger received $700 Travel Grant for the AMS conference in Phoenix, AZ.

2008 – Adele Lichtenberger received a $4,000 internship (with housing and travel allowances) the U.S. Department of Energy's Global Change Education Program (GCEP) for summer 2008.  GCEP research encompasses a wide variety of study areas, including atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climatology, and terrestrial processes. Adele worked in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State analyzing cloud and aerosol data from an aircraft campaign carried out in Oklahoma 2007.

2008 – Adele Lichtenberger was awarded $8,000 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings (Hollings) scholarship. Ernest F. Hollings scholarship program is designed to increase undergraduate training in oceanic and atmospheric science, research, technology, and education and foster multidisciplinary training opportunities and increase public understanding and support for stewardship of the ocean and atmosphere and improve environmental literacy.

Awards Won By Visiting Researchers Supervised

2012 – Mariam Elizbarashvili was awarded $1,200 travel support to attend the 12th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2012, June 17 - 23 June 2012, Bulgaria.

2012 – Mariam Elizbarashvili was awarded $1,500 travel support to the Sixth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models, Trieste, Italy.

2012 – Mariam Elizbarashvili was awarded a $15,000 travel grant from Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation to work at NC State University, Raleigh, NC.