UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1126
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Submission Number: 1126
Submission ID: 20226
Submission UUID: af67c9cd-5aee-4a1d-ae88-d190c02e5586
Submission URI: /urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal
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Created: Wed, 08/13/2025 - 02:04 PM
Completed: Wed, 08/13/2025 - 02:04 PM
Changed: Tue, 09/23/2025 - 04:54 PM
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Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
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| Primary Research Mentor Name | Neda Mobasher |
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| Research Mentor Preferred Pronouns | she/her/hers |
| When potential research assistants are reaching out via email, what is your preferred honorific? | |
| Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) | nam22e@fsu.edu |
| Position Title | Graduate Student |
| Faculty Advisor Name | Dr. Alyssa Atwood |
| Faculty Advisor's FSU Email | aatwood@fsu.edu |
| FSU College (if applicable) | Arts and Sciences |
| FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation | Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences |
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| Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from above) | |
| Research Assistant Supervisor Preferred Pronouns | |
| Research Assistant Supervisor Preferred Honorific? | |
| Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) | |
| Name of Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) (if applicable) | |
| Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) Preferred Pronouns | |
| Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) Preferred Honorific? | |
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| Title of the Project | Coral fossil geochemistry in the tropical Pacific Ocean. |
| Project Keywords | coral geochemistry, climate science, carbon dating |
| Are you currently looking for research assistants? | No |
| Number of Research Assistants Needed | 2 |
| Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) | chemistry, geology, meteorology, environmental science, environmental science and policy, biology, mathematics, geography |
| Project Location: | On FSU Main Campus |
| If the project location is off campus, does the research assistant(s) need to provide their own transportation? | |
| Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s): | In-person |
| Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work? | 8-10 |
| Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work? | During business hours |
| Overall Research Project Description | The eastern and central Pacific are the key action sites for monitoring ENSO activity in the tropical Pacific. Scleractinian ("stony") corals fossils (up to 5,000 years old) are deposited along the shores of islands and coral atolls in the central and eastern Pacific and collected for paleoclimate reconstruction due to their distinct geochemical signals that can tract past changes in oceanographic conditions (e.g. sea surface temperature (SST), salinity, etc). However, there many questions surrouding the coral geochemistry and paleoclimatology of the tropical Pacific. A couple of these questions include: 1) how has climate variability changed in the past 5,000 years? 2) What do past differences in climate variability in the eastern versus central pacific look like? Interested students will assist graduate research assistants in studying how the tropical Pacific Ocean has been changing from the mid- to late Holocene using the geochemistry of coral skeletons as a natural archive of ocean temperature and hydrology. The student will work in a laboratory setting collecting and analyzing geochemical data in fossil corals from Kiritimati, Kiribati and the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Specifically, the student will assist in preparing samples for radiocarbon dating, drilling coral skeletons for geochemical analysis, assisting with geochemical experiments, and assisting graduate students with general laboratory tasks. |
| Research Tasks | Tasks may include literature and data review, drilling and imaging coral samples, preparing coral samples for radiocarbon age dating, using various analytical instrumentations, microscope work, and assisting graduate students in a variety of tasks. |
| Skills that research assistant(s) may need: | strong attention to detail - required strong work ethic - required great communication skills - required |
| Mentoring Philosophy | I see mentoring as a web, where everyone is entitled to and encouraged to have multiple mentors that will fit various needs. As a mentor, I seek to aid a mentee in their development as a researcher and individual to display their progress in a positive light and will aid the student in their future aspirations and ambitions towards pursuing their individual goals. I will discuss information with the mentee in an honest and direct manner. |
| Please provide a link to your publications, a video clip, or a website for your research project (if applicable): | https://alyssaatwood.weebly.com/ |
| Please add any additional information here (if applicable): | Interested students should email both the Graduate Student and Faculty Advisor for more information. |
| Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable? | No |
| Roundtable times and Zoom links | N/A |
| Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication | Yes |
| UROP Performance Evaluation | Yes |
| Materials Grant | Yes |
| UROP Poster Presentation | Yes |
| Faculty Advisor Confirmation | Yes |
| Are you interested in attending in a UROP Research Mentor Workshop Series? | No |
| Year | 2025 |
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