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Earth & Environmental Science Department Newsletter |
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Welcome to the official newsletter of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at Wesleyan University! |
Spotlight on… |
Melanie Cham (’24) received a Fulbright scholarship! With the U.S Fulbright-Nehru Student Researcher program, Melanie will be in India for nine months at the Central University of Punjab, Bhatinda and Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University working on a research project reconstructing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in India during the Late Cretaceous based on fossil leaves.
Please join us in congratulating Melanie! |
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Suzanne OConnell is one of several scientists speaking about scientific ocean drilling on a new short video produced by One World Network. Sean Gulick who is featured prominently in the video will be the 2024 Stearns Lecturer. Please click on the link below to view the video. |
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Marty Gilmore was interviewed on NPR recently! Click on the link below to read the transcript. |
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Navya Mittal ’27 is a scuba diver and advocate for coral preservation. She presented a program in March to fifth graders at Spencer School in Middletown about coral reefs.
Pictured below Navya is scuba diving in the Andamans in 2023. |
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Mid-continent Paleobotanical Colloquium |
Members of Wesleyan's E&ES department attended the “Mid-continent Paleobotanical Colloquium” at the Field Museum in Chicago. The conference included a field trip to Mazon Creek, which is famous for its fossil-containing nodules. Wesleyan has a good collection here at the Joe Webb Peoples Museum. Attendees included Melanie Cham, Marcus Brown, Bryton Smith, Xiaoqing Zhang, and Professor Dana Royer. |
Melanie Cham ‘24 and Marcus Brown ‘25 |
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Seed fern leaf from the collections at the Field Museum. |
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Alumni update |
Satrio Wicaksono ‘10, 2024 Climate Fellow, presented a talk to Wesleyan faculty and students titled “Working at the Intersection of Actionable Environmental Research and Policy Processes” |
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Teja Wicaksono (age 3) meets Greg the bison in the JW Peoples Museum. |
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Joe Webb Peoples Museum |
The Joe Webb Peoples Museum will be open on Saturday afternoon during reunion-commencement, May 24th, 2-4 pm. Stop by to pick up your Shelley sticker! |
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During Wesfest, Lilly Hochhauser ‘25, Anya Le ‘25, Nicole Steigerwald ‘24 and Elise McCamant ‘24 were student curators in the Joe Webb Peoples Museum Open House and at our table with fossils and minerals at the student activity fair. We had lots of interested visitors, and our ‘Shelley the Glyptodon’ stickers were hot! |
To celebrate Earth Day, Anya Le ‘25 and Lilly Hochhauser ‘25 set up our new specimen of the month, the endangered-threatened Piping Plover, a taxidermy bird from the George Brown Goode Collections, in SciLi. See the poster on E&ES Instagram. |
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Lilly Hochhauser ‘25 is assisting Emmy Brockman, an early childhood educator presenting a multi-week kids’ science program in the Middletown Russell Library supported by a grant from the Arts for Learning Connecticut, and using rocks, shells, fossils and minerals from the Joe Webb Peoples Museum. |
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Nicole Steigerwald ‘24 has helped share rock-mineral specimens from the Joe Webb peoples Museum with Traverse Square, an after school program for elementary-middle schoolers tutored by Wesleyan students. |
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