UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1126

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  roundtable_info: {  }
  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: 8-10
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'No'
  confirmation_1: '1'
  contact_email_fsu_email: ''
  contact_email_fsu_email2: ''
  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: nam22e@fsu.edu
  faculty_advisor_confirmation: '1'
  faculty_advisor_name: 'Dr. Alyssa Atwood'
  faculty_advisor_s_fsu_email: aatwood@fsu.edu
  fsu_college: 'Arts and Sciences'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences'
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  if_the_project_location_is_off_campus_does_the_student_need_to_p: ''
  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.
  mentor_handbook_and_faqs: '1'
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  number_of_assistants_needed_faculty_postdoc_max_6_graduate_stude: '2'
  other_faculty_collaborator_s_preferred_pronouns: ''
  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. 
  please_add_any_additional_information_here: 'Interested students should email both the Graduate Student and Faculty Advisor for more information.'
  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: 'https://alyssaatwood.weebly.com/'
  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: In-person
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'During Business Hours'
  position_title: 'Graduate Student'
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Neda Mobasher'
  project_keywords: 'coral geochemistry, climate science, carbon dating'
  relevant_student_major_s_: 'chemistry, geology, meteorology, environmental science, environmental science and policy, biology, mathematics, geography'
  research_mentor_preferred_pronoun2: ''
  research_mentor_pronouns: she/her/hers
  research_mentor_supervisor_if_different_from_above_: ''
  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: |+
    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. 


  roundtable_times_and_zoom_links: N/A
  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: |
    strong attention to detail - required 
    strong work ethic - required 
    great communication skills - required
  title_of_the_project: 'Coral fossil geochemistry in the tropical Pacific Ocean. '
  update_url: 'https://cre.fsu.edu/urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal?token=N9hoDh09Vng5Frl_T7TYxsM_M2E9FqfXejxQ9B35ObE'
  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
  urop_poster_presentation: '1'
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_2: ''
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_wh: ''
  when_students_are_reaching_out_via_email_what_is_your_preferreda: ''
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_round2: 'No'
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: 'No'
  year: '2025'