Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences
Date January 23, 2023
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Welcome Back: Excitement for Spring '23

Brown University is getting ready to kick off the spring semester this Wednesday, January 25th, and everyone in DEEPS is excited for the new semester. We asked a number of the DEEPS community what they were looking forward to in the upcoming semester, and this is what they had to say:

 

  • "Spring is a time of rejuvenation. One of the things I look forward to the most each year is welcoming newly declared concentrators, a new class of PhD students, new postdocs, and this year, lots of new faculty. 2023 is going to be an exceptional year for DEEPS!" – Professor & Chair Jim Russell
     
  • "I am looking forward to seeing the culmination of undergraduate research at the end of the semester. The run-up to senior thesis deadlines is a stress or sure, but to see everyone come together and present their research and reflect on their experiences at Brown is so enriching and exciting!" – Professor Meredith Hastings 
     
  • "I am looking forward to seeing the world's freshwater resources in a new way when the first measurements from the just-launched NASA/CNES Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission start arriving." – Professor Laurence C. Smith
     
  • "I’m looking forward to doing some exciting experiments with our powerful new 135 HP servo motor. We hope these experiments will help our team of international collaborators finally be able to understand the fundamental frictional processes that allow earthquakes to occur." – Professor Emeritus Terry Tullis
      
  • "My team is working on a newly funded NASA OSIRIS-REx project, preparing to analyze returned samples from Asteroid Bennu (to return to Earth on September 24, 2023), a newly funded NSF project to study arctic sea ice, and continuing a project to study arctic climate change from arctic Alaskan lakes." – Professor Yongsong Huang
      
  • "As a new employee at DEEPS, I cannot wait to make myself at home at Brown, to continue meeting friendly and smart people with good stories to tell, and to put that new foosball table on our floor to more regular use." – Postdoc Alex Sokolowska
      
  • "I'm looking forward to teaching my new interdisciplinary data science course (EEPS/DATA 1720) on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning." – Assistant Professor Karianne J. Bergen
      
  • "I am looking forward to teaching my First Year Seminar “Natural Disasters” this spring. It is always a delight to teach (and learn from) the newest students at Brown." – Associate Professor Colleen Dalton