Earth Sciences Alumna Awarded a European Mineralogical Union Poster Prize

Posted December 8, 2010

Eva Wadoski, a Master of Science in Earth Sciences Alumna, was awarded a European Mineralogical Union (EMU) Poster Prize for her poster "Stepwise dehydration of goosecreekite: a structural study" co-authored with Thomas Armbruster, Biljana Lazic and Martin Fisch at the 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Budapest, Hungary; August 21-27, 2010. The EMU has been awarding Poster Prizes at relevant international conferences to young scientists working in the mineralogical sciences and related disciplines. Wadoski was one of the three selected to receive the award in Budapest.

The poster reported a portion of Wadoski’s doctoral thesis research at the Mineralogical Crystallography Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland. Her Master of Science thesis research at the University of Maine was a mineralogical study of tourmaline and other borosilicate minerals in pegmatites from the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica.