VT SuperDARN grad student Nathaniel Frissell has completed his term as a Student representative to the Science Steering Committee of the NSF Geospace and Environment Modeling (GEM) program. He served for two years as one of two student reps. The reps organize and run student sessions at the annual GEM summer workshop and report to the Steering Committee on student activities. Nathaniel oversaw a significant increase in student participation and activities at GEM and also performed valuable liason with the NSF CEDAR workshop and CEDAR student activities. Well done, Nathaniel!

The GEM workshop typically spans a one week period in June and includes a Sunday session that is for students only. For a link to the 2013 Workshop held at Snowmass, Colorado click on
http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/GEM_Student_Forum#GEM_Student_Workshop.2C_June_16.2C_2013

Photo shows Nathaniel posing at Independence pass, just off Highway 82 en route to Boulder, Colorado from Snowmass. The pass straddles the Continental Divide at an elevation of 12,095 feet.