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Summer Internship Program Begins |
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 |
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DTM welcomed the arrival of our summer interns this June. The internship program, now in its eighth year, is a collaborative undertaking managed by CIW’s Geophysical Laboratory and funded by the National Science Foundation. Each intern is undertaking a different project in collaboration with DTM staff and postdocs:
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Abby Fraeman of Blair High School is working with Nader Haghighapour and Saavik Ford on the long-term stability of small solid objects in the Trojan region of an extrasolar planet;
Alicia Aarnio of Smith College is working with Alycia Weinberger to search for young (5- to 10-Myr-old) stars using spectra from Lick Observatory and the DuPont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory;
Sonali Shukla of New York University is working with James Cho on the dynamics of large-scale atmospheric circulation driven by radiative-equilibrium forcing on the extrasolar giant planet HD209458b;
Kara Friend of West Virginia University is working with Shaun Hardy on preparations for the DTM Centennial Celebration;
Tom Leuchtefeld is working with Larry Nittler on the study of organic matter in meteorites and interplantery dust particles;
and Tim Means of the University of North Carolina, Asheville, is working with Nader Haghighapour on the stability of the extrasolar planetary system 55 Cancri under different assumptions regarding the inclination of the planetary orbits. |