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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 Scripps Oceanography Director's Prize Awarded to Two Graduate Students Eleventh annual award honors excellence in graduate student research Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego Two graduate students at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, will share the Edward A. Frieman Prize, an annual recognition of excellence in graduate student research. The award ceremony will be held on Friday, August 4, at 3 p.m. at the Scripps Library. Edward Frieman The Frieman Prize was established in 1996 to celebrate the 70th birthday of Scripps Institution's eighth director, Edward A. Frieman, who led Scripps from 1986 to 1996. The prize is awarded annually to a Scripps graduate student who has published an outstanding research paper in the past 12 months, as evaluated by a Scripps faculty committee. For the first time this year, the Frieman Prize committee has chosen two students instead of the customary one: geophysics graduate student Renee Bulow and climate sciences graduate student Hyodae Seo. Bulow is being honored for her research paper, "New events discovered in the Apollo lunar seismic data," which was published in the October 27, 2005, issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research and was co-authored by her Scripps advisors, Catherine Johnson and Peter Shearer.  Renee Bulow "Renee's paper describes the discovery of previously unidentified deep seismic events on the Moon, using data from the Apollo missions," said Johnson. "Her paper is a significant contribution to future studies of lunar seismicity, tides and lunar internal structure. It is also an example of how modern methods can be used to glean much more information from unique legacy data sets than could perhaps have ever been imagined in the 1970s, when the data were originally collected." Bulow, who is from Redding, Calif., received her B.S. in physics from UC Berkeley in 2000. She plans to complete her Ph.D. in 2007 and will then go on to postdoctoral work at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. Seo is receiving the Frieman Prize for his paper, "Effect of ocean mesoscale variability on the mean state of tropical Atlantic climate," which was published in the May 9, 2006, issue of Geophysical Research Letters and was co-authored by Markus Jochum of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Raghu Murtugudde of the University of Maryland and Scripps climate scientist Arthur Miller, who is Seo's co-advisor.  Hyodae Seo "Shortly after arriving at Scripps, Hyodae learned how to run two state-of-the-art, highly sophisticated models. Learning to use either one of them is difficult, but mastering both is phenomenal," said Miller. "Hyodae did all the work in designing and testing the model domain to make sure it allowed a believable climatology, executing the preliminary and final experiments to test the hypotheses of the effects of the ocean mesoscale on atmospheric rainfall, analyzing all the model experiments to diagnose the physics and writing up the results." Fourth-year climate student Seo, who is from Seoul, South Korea, completed a B.S. degree at Yonsei University in South Korea. # # # Note to broadcast and cable producers: University of California, San Diego provides an on-campus satellite uplink facility for live or pre-recorded television interviews. Please phone or e-mail the media contact listed above to arrange an interview. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at University of California, San Diego, is one of the oldest, largest and most important centers for global science research and education in the world. The National Research Council has ranked Scripps first in faculty quality among oceanography programs nationwide. Now in its second century of discovery, the scientific scope of the institution has grown to include biological, physical, chemical, geological, geophysical and atmospheric studies of the earth as a system. Hundreds of research programs covering a wide range of scientific areas are under way today in 65 countries. The institution has a staff of about 1,300, and annual expenditures of approximately $155 million from federal, state and private sources. Scripps operates one of the largest U.S. academic fleets with four oceanographic research ships and one research platform for worldwide exploration. |
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