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Volume XXVIII (June 2008)
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July 13-18, 2008
University of British Columbia 
Vancouver, British Columbia 
CUAHSI Biennial Science Meeting
July 14-16, 2008 
Center Green Campus 
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 
Boulder, CO 
NCED Geomorphic-Dynamics Working Group Meeting
July 23-25, 2008 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute 
Woods Hole, MA 
SACNAS National Conference
October 9-12, 2008 
Salt Palace Convention Center 
Salt Lake City, UT 
PRRSUM Archived
You can now view meeting summaries and video archives of prior Partnership for River Restoration and Science in the Upper Midwest (PRRSUM) meetings. To access a meeting video archive, click on the "archive" link associated with that meeting.
OCCAM: What is it?
The Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM) will formally launch October 1, 2008. This center received support from NCED as the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University applied for, and was ultimately awarded, $25 million by the Global Research Partnership of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
History Channel Airs Show
"Mega Disasters: Noah’s Great Flood" first aired on The History Channel last month. This episode of the Mega Disasters series includes footage of a physical model demonstration showing the basic dynamics behind the theory of the Black Sea flood. There is also brief footage of an interview with NCED Director Chris Paola.
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MYRES the Results
Last month, the Meeting of Young Researchers in Earth Sciences (MYRES) conference, "Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape," convened in Louisiana. Approximately 80 participants (from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa) attended this international conference organized by a group of current and former NCED postdocs and graduate students. NCED PIs Bill Dietrich (UC Berkeley) and Robert Twilley (LSU), along with NCED partner Gordon Grant (US Forest Service), moderated session discussions. Conference outcomes include a list of critical research questions and a white paper submission to the National Research Council (NRC). The research questions, organized around the two-way interaction between landscape and ecology, provide early-career ecologists and geoscientists with an active research agenda. And, the paper to the NRC will help the NRC in defining Earth-surface research for the coming years. Additionally, conference participants spent time networking and developing professional relationships—relationships that extend across disciplines and across the globe.
Left: NCED postdoc Patrick Belmont and University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Doug Jerolmack (former NCED postdoc) in group discussion. Right: Flume with dammed and vegetated river serves as focal point for afternoon discussion at the MYRES EarthScape Expo.
 
University of Minnesota Colleagues and Students Win Awards
Director Named Distinguished Professor
The Institute of Technology (IT) honored NCED Director Chris Paola by naming him an IT Distinguished Professor. This award honors exceptional faculty for their efforts in and contributions to teaching and scholarly research and for their commitment to IT and its activities.

Fellowship Awarded
NCED graduate student Chandana Gangodagamage received a 2008-2009 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. This is an all-University competition that gives outstanding final-year PhD candidates an opportunity to complete their dissertation within the upcoming academic year.

NCED Alum Receives Award
Recent NCED graduate Rob Stoll was awarded the Civil Engineering Best Dissertation Award, an internal departmental award, and was nominated for the graduate school’s Best Dissertation Award.

Louise T. Dosdall Fellowship 
The recipient of this year’s Louise T. Dosdall Fellowship for the 2008-2009 school year goes to NCED graduate student Amy Hansen. This University-wide fellowship is awarded to 1-2 women per year who show exceptional promise for a successful career in science research or in engineering-related fields.

Renewable Energy Grant Awarded
NCED Principal Investigators (PIs) Fernando Porté-Agel and Fotis Sotiropoulos received a $1 million grant from the Xcel Energy Renewable Development Fund for the development of a virtual wind simulator for optimal design of wind energy projects. 

REU students at SAFL
On Monday, June 2, 10 undergraduate students from institutions around the United States arrived at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) to participate in NCED’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) on River and Coastal Restoration. These students will work with NCED staff and PIs on two projects: the coastal restoration of the Mississippi River Delta and the ongoing efforts to document the geomorphic response of Oregon's Sandy River to the 2007 removal of the Marmot Dam. The REU program ends August 9.

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