Craig Nelson, Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research & Creative Work recipient
Craig NelsonCraig Nelson, associate researcher jointly appointed to the Department of Oceanography and Hawai‘i Sea Grant, was awarded the 2023 Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Creative Work. The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship selects for this award faculty mentors who have shown dedicated and sustained excellence in faculty mentoring of undergraduate students in their research and creative work endeavors.
Nelson’s laboratory group in the Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education is focused on aquatic ecosystem ecology specializing in the structure and function of natural bacterial communities in diverse habitats such as coral reefs, lakes, streams and the open ocean. His students train in culture-independent metagenomic characterization of natural microbial communities and measurement of biogeochemical processes regulated by these microbes. He is actively involved in promoting undergraduate research programs at UH Mānoa, including mentoring diverse student projects and serving on the steering committees of the Global Environmental Science program and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Council. His students work on many projects serving the state, including coastal wastewater pollution and the emerging Red Hill crisis.
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