{"id":19931,"date":"2019-05-16T09:15:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/?p=19931"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:48:40","slug":"featured-awards-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/2019\/05\/16\/featured-awards-april-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Awards \u2013 April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column four-fifths\">\n<p><strong><em>Please join us in congratulating the following MSU faculty and staff who received awards this month.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-fifth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column four-fifths\">\n<p><strong>Yasemin Besen-Cassino <\/strong>\u2022 Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Contemporary Sociology Editorship<\/em><br \/>\nAmerican Sociological Association<br \/>\n<em>$21,933<\/em><br \/>\nThis award will support Dr. Besen-Cassino in the role of Editor for Contemporary Sociology, providing yearly funding for operational costs of the office. As a part of this grant, Dr. Besen-Cassino will review and select manuscripts, as well as selecting and shaping the content of the Journal.<br \/>\n<\/p><\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-fifth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column four-fifths\">\n<p><strong>Paul Bologna<\/strong> \u2022 Biology<br \/>\n<strong>John Gaynor<\/strong> \u2022 Biology<br \/>\n<strong>Robert Meredith<\/strong> \u2022 Biology<br \/>\n<em>Assessment of the Impacts of OCNGS on Gelatinous Zooplankton and Planktonic Community Structure: Year 2<\/em><br \/>\nNJ Department of Environmental Protection<br \/>\n<em>$68,992<\/em><br \/>\nDr. Bologna, Dr. Gaynor and Dr. Meredith\u2019s study will continue to assess the distribution of gelatinous zooplankton and potential impacts of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS) on planktonic community structure and provide a Metagenomic Composition assessment of planktonic communities and impacts of OCNGS. They will be supported by undergraduate and graduate students of ÌÇÐÄvlog.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-fifth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column four-fifths\">\n<p><strong>Ying Cui <\/strong>\u2022 Earth and Environmental Studies<br \/>\n<em>Development of new high-resolution pCO2 records for quantifying Earth system climate sensitivity<\/em><br \/>\nNational Science Foundation<br \/>\n<em>$40,533<\/em><br \/>\nIn collaboration with researchers from University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Dr. Cui will work with both undergraduate and graduate students to study the ancient pCO2 (65 million years ago to today) using a large number of published carbon isotope data from literature. This research is based on the known pCO2 effect on C3-land plant carbon isotope fractionation in order to provide a continuous, high-resolution pCO2 reconstruction of the Cenozoic and to assess the Earth system sensitivity. This study will provide important insight to the future climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-fifth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column four-fifths\">\n<p><strong>Meiyin Wu<\/strong> \u2022 Passaic River Institute<br \/>\n<em>Stopping Trash Where It Starts<\/em><br \/>\nUS Environmental Protection Agency<br \/>\n<em>$9,000<\/em><br \/>\nÌÇÐÄvlog will assist the New York &#8211; New Jersey Harbor &amp; Estuary Program in the survey site selection process for 20 sites along the Hackensack River, download GIS map data for the study area, randomly select potential study sites using GIS, apply site selection criteria, add additional survey sites selected by community groups\/HEP, and create a GIS map listing all final survey sites.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-fifth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19931"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19971,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions\/19971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}