Sonali Shukla, an intern at DTM in the summer of 2004 and currently a junior at New York University, was recently given an Outstanding Student Paper Award for her presentation at the 2004 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Shukla's presentation, given in the Planetary Sciences Section, highlighted her work with James Cho on the dynamics of large-scale atmospheric circulation driven by radiative equilibrium forcing on the extrasolar giant planet HD209458b. Another intern working at the Geophysical Laboratory, Lora Armstrong of the University of Michigan, also received an award.

The internship program, jointly managed by the Geophysical Laboratory and DTM, is in its eighth year and is sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation.