Communications

Undergraduate engineer improves technology used for robotic arm movements

Post-master's participant promotes nuclear non-proliferation initiatives on a global scale
Students Shine a Spotlight on Geothermal Energy and Discover Career Pathways

Spending 18 days on the Arctic Ocean to aid U.S. Coast Guard data collection efforts

Detecting high power explosives to improve U.S. transportation security checkpoints
Ensuring data quality of a new airborne radiation detector for the land and sky
Researching the geographic origin of illicit gemstones seized at U.S. customs borders
Regardless of whether undergraduate chemist Jessica Elinburg would say diamonds are a girl’s best friend, she has certainly spent a lot of time getting to know them better. Elinburg had a unique assignment as part of her summer research internship—inspecting and analyzing gemstones, particularly diamonds, at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Laboratories and Scientific Services Directorate (LSSD) facility in Springfield, Va. (Photo courtesy of Gene Bondoc, LSSD-Springfield)

Undergraduate engineer increases efficiency and performance of fossil-energy power systems

Mathematics student, future engineer, assesses economic viability of the Marcellus Shale gas wells as an energy source
The Marcellus Shale is the largest gas reserve in the United States, stretching across 104,000 square miles and extending from Marcellus, N. Y., into Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia. As one of the most valuable natural resources in the U.S., Allante Harrison, a Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) participant, was given the task of creating a model for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to determine whether removing gas from the Marcellus Shale was an economically responsible decision. (Photo courtesy of Charli Williams, DOE).
Rethinking Volcanology: Florian Max Schwandner, JPL Senior Fellow

Ralph P. Harvey - First Impressions
Published in the NASA Postdoctoral Program Newsletter
Ralph P. Harvey is a pretty big deal in the meteorite world. Since the early nineties, he has been the field team leader and principal investigator of The Antarctic Search for Meteorites program, or ANSMET. Continuously supported from 1976 through partnerships with NASA, the Smithsonian Institution and Case Western Reserve University, ANSMET has been instrumental in recovering over 20,000 meteorites and materials from other planets in the Antarctic.