Doctoral students in Oceanography, Michael Sauer and Margaret Estapa receive NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship

                                   

Michael Sauer                                                              Margaret Estapa

Posted May 15, 2009

Two University of Maine Oceanography graduate students received NASA fellowships last year. Doctoral candidate Michael Sauer received a $30,000 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship to create a more accurate calculation of the amount of chlorophyll in the water using optical equipment, sensors and data from Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS) buoys. Doctoral candidate Margaret Estapa is studying the release of carbon from mud delivered from the Mississippi River to areas along the Gulf Coast.

For more information see: "How Green is the Gulf"