February 13, 2025
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Oceanography student at UM wins fellowship

ORONO – Margaret Estapa, a doctoral student in oceanography at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, was recently awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship.

The fellowship, available to master’s or doctoral students in Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science and astrophysics, is awarded on the merits of research involving data collected by space-based instruments, ground-based data, laboratory experiments and theoretical modeling.

The $30,000 grant, which is renewable for two more years based on academic performance, will be used to support Estapa’s ongoing study of the release of carbon from the mud that is delivered from the Mississippi River to areas along the Gulf Coast.

Advising Estapa on the project are School of Marine Sciences professors Larry Mayer and Emmanuel Boss.


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