Advisor’s Name
Oliver Jagoutz
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Title of the URP
Interpreting Crustal Composition from Seismic Velocity
Advisor’s Name
Dr. Eduardo A. Lima
Position
Principal Research Scientist
Affiliation
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Title of the URP
Net moment estimation techniques for geological microsamples
Advisor’s Name
Yihe Huang and Jeroen Ritsema
Position
Professors
Affiliation
University of Michigan
Title of the URP
Measurements of body-wave attenuation in the mantle
Advisor’s Name
Lingsen Meng
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliation
University of California, Los Angeles
Title of the URP
Development of 3D Back-projections to Investigate the Mechanisms of Deep Earthquakes
Advisor’s Name
Matej Pec
Position
Assistant professor
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title of the URP
Developing a MATLAB Program for the Evaluation of Mechanical Data from Rock Deformation Experiments
Advisor’s Name
Zhongwen Zhan
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliation
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Title of the URP
Traffic noise recorded by the optical fiber network in Pasadena
Advisor’s Name
Michael Gurnis
Position
Professor
Affiliation
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Title of the URP
Global inversion of rock uplift as constraint on geodynamic models
Advisor’s Name
Joann Stock
Position
Professor
Affiliation
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Title of the URP
S-wave velocity structure of Salton Trough basin, SE California, USA
Advisor’s Name
Yuhang Wang
Position
Professor
Affiliation
Georgia Institute of Technology
Title of the URP
chemistry and physics processes in atmospheric models and related topics
Advisor’s Name
Joshua Fu
Position
Professor
Affiliation
University of Tennessee
Title of the URP
Atmosphere-land process and its chemistry in climate models and related topics
Advisor’s Name
Jasper Kok
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
University of California, Los Angeles
Title of the URP
Atmospheric dust and its climatic impact in theory and modeling
Advisor’s Name
Yi-Hsin Liu
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliation
Dartmouth College
Title of the URP
Kinetic Simulations and in-situ (MMS) Observations of Magnetic Reconnection
Advisor’s Name
Xudong Sun
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliation
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Title of the URP
Comparing the Solar Coronal and Wind Structure During the Descending Phase of Cycle 23 and 24
Advisor’s Name
Benjamin Weiss
Position
Professor
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title of the URP
The history of the Martian dynamo
Advisor’s Name
Wen Li
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliation
Center for Space Physics, Boston University
Title of the URP
Simultaneous multi-satellite observation of Earth’s magnetospheric waves
Advisor’s Name
Toshi Nishimura
Position
Research Associate Professor
Affiliation
Center for Space Physics, Boston University
Title of the URP
1) Imaging Solar wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere interaction processes by satellite-ground coordination 2) Plasma-neutral dynamics in the Upper Atmosphere-Ionosphere system
Advisor’s Name
Xian Lu
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliation
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
Title of the URP
Observational and modeling studies of the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling to improve the space weather predictability
Advisor’s Name
Yue Deng
Position
Professor
Affiliation
University of Texas at Arlington
Title of the URP
Electric field variability in the high-latitude region and impact on the M-I coupling
Advisor’s Name
Binzheng Zhang
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliation
the University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Title of the URP
1) Impacts of terrestrial-source plasma on the dynamics of magnetotails 2) Asymmetries in solar wind-magnetosphere interactions in planetary magnetospheres
Advisor’s Name
Alan Z. Liu
Position
Professor
Affiliation
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Title of the URP
Seasonal variation of gravity wave activities over the Andes
Advisor’s Name
Roberta Rudnick
Position
Professor
Affiliation
University of California at Santa Barbara
Title of the URP
Determining molybdenum partitioning during igneous differentiation
Advisor’s Name
Kurt Konhauser
Position
Professor
Affiliation
University of Alberta
Title of the URP
Understanding iron oxide biomineralization and the role of Fe(III)-carbon aggregates as sedimentary flocs
Advisor’s Name
Hang Su
Position
Group Leader
Affiliation
Nax-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Title of the URP
Change in PM 2.5 and source identification
Advisor’s Name
Roger E. Summons and Cui Xingqian
Position
Professor/ postdoctoral associate
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title of the URP
Microbial Diversity in Late Archean Ocean Margins
Advisor’s Name
Tyler Mackey / Roger Summons
Position
Postdoctoral Fellow /Professor
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title of the URP
Exploring the expansion of complex life through biomarkers
