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Jane Teranes
July 12, 2006
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Mark H. Thiemens, Dean of UCSD’s Division of Physical Sciences, announce a new award designed to recognize outstanding student achievement in the Environmental Systems (ESYS) Program. The award is given to ESYS seniors whose senior projects demonstrate superior efforts and interdisciplinary problem-solving.
The ESYS Program at UCSD is designed to prepare undergraduates for a variety of environmental careers or graduate programs in the natural sciences, the social sciences, public policy, law, or business, allowing students to specialize in one of four degree tracks: Earth Sciences, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution and Environmental Policy. The ESYS program places significant value on interdisciplinary problem solving and all majors are expected to complete an integrative Senior Project in their final year. The Senior Project is designed by the student to focus on an interdisciplinary environmental problem or research topic.
Dean Thiemens founded the ESYS program to carry on the principle of interdisciplinary education and training first envisioned by Roger Revelle, founder of UCSD’s Revelle College.
“Our students receive a broad range of education across the disciplines at a notably deep level. These students graduate from the program with education and training that equips them to address the enormously complicated issues of environment, its change and societal impact. That kind of education requires more than a cursory knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, earth science, political science, mathematics, statistics and economics” states Thiemens.
“To excel in the program is yet another level of dedication,” he says. “It is for this reason that we are extraordinarily pleased to honor our students who have excelled at the environmental systems program and to reward their dedication and hard work.”
This year’s recipients of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Environmental Systems Senior Projects are:
Rebecca Johnson, “Nitrogen Fixation Patterns: Natural and Restored Marsh, Tijuana Estuary”, Integrated Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Corina Marks, “Hormone concentration in cetacean blubber as a tool for population management“, Southwest Fisheries Science Center – NOAA.
Ai Yamaguchi, “Family of mer genes MerC, MerT, and MerF: Mercury Transport System”, Section of Molecular Biology, UCSD.
Craig Edelman, “Sustainable Tourism for Sustainable Developments”, Nature Conservation Research Center, Ghana.
James Wright, San Diego County Department of Planning and Land Use, Watershed Protection Division.
Meghan Kelly, “San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program: Habitat Vegetation Code Revision”, Multiple Species Conservation Program, Department of Planning and Land Use
For more information on the Environmental Systems Program visit: http://esys.ucsd.edu.
More information on these and other student senior projects are at:
http://esys.ucsd.edu/internship/internship_profiles.q_z.htm
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