Graduate students awarded ARCS Foundation scholarships
The ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter selected four University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science graduate students to receive ARCS Scholarships. At the 2022 ARCS Scholars Banquet this month the foundation provided $5,000 awards to 20 University of Hawai‘i at Manoa doctoral candidates who were named ARCS Scholars. The non-profit volunteer group works to advance science in America by providing unrestricted funding to outstanding U.S. graduate students in STEM fields. The Honolulu chapter has provided more than $2.7 million to UH more than 650 graduate students since 1974.
The four 2022 Honolulu ARCS Scholars from the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology are listed below. For more information about each scholar, including links to videos in which they describe their research, visit the ARCS Foundation 2022 Scholars page.
Marley Chertok, Department of Earth Sciences, Toby Lee ARCS Award, uses remote sensing techniques to look at impact craters on the lunar surface in order to learn what they reveal about hidden ancient interior lava flows. She previously worked on a geologic history of Northwestern Zambia to assist with an environmental impact study related to refugee resettlement. Her advisor, University of Hawai‘i Planetary Scientist Paul Lucey, was a 1987 Honolulu ARCS Scholar.
View Marley’s video
Terrence J. “TJ” Corrigan, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, George and Mona Elmore ARCS Award, is a storm chaser. He will aim Stereo Atmospheric Motion Monitor cameras at the Ko‘olau range to gauge the interplay of wind and topography. His goal is to predict when simple tradewind showers will evolve into severe rotating thunderstorms, such as the 2018 supercell thunderstorm over Kaua‘i that shattered previous 24-hour U.S. rainfall records.
View TJ’s video
Shannon McClish, Department of Oceanography, George and Mona Elmore ARCS Award, studies the impact of seasonal changes in Antarctic Sea ice on nutrient and carbon dioxide uptake and release by phytoplankton. Robotic floats let her collect data during periods when ship-based sampling isn’t possible. She hopes to work at the intersection of science research and policy.
View Shannon’s video
Sarah Tucker, Marine Biology (joint Natural Sciences/SOEST program), George and Mona Elmore ARCS Award, has demonstrated an uncanny ability to grow a ubiquitous group of bacteria called SAR11 in the laboratory. Using bacteria grown in the lab and collected in Kane‘ohe Bay, she is unravel the metabolic pathways at work in this important but little understood player in global carbon cycles.
View Sarah’s video