May
7, 2004
Claire
Treat ’05 Wins Prestigious Fellowship
Photo by Todd M. LeMieux
Claire Treat ’05 |
Claire Treat ’05,
from Keene, New Hampshire, recently received the Research and
Discover Fellowship, newly established by the Joint Center
for the Earth Sciences of NASA and the University of New Hampshire
for exceptional undergraduate students. Competition for the
fellowship was steep; four out of 40 applications were accepted.
The fellowship will permit Treat to continue research she began last summer at
UNH with her Mount Holyoke adviser, Jill Bubier, associate professor of environmental
studies. Her work involves measuring methane emissions at a New Hampshire wetlands
site to assess the effects of climate change on northern wetlands. Treat’s
work is part of a larger collaborative research program Bubier is conducting
with peers at UNH for which Bubier has received NASA funding and, more recently,
a National Science Foundation CAREER grant.
Bubier thinks highly of Treat’s work. “Claire is one of the best
environmental studies students I’ve had the privilege of working with at
MHC. In addition to excelling at all the science courses she’s taken here
at MHC, she was one of the top students at the Marine Biological Laboratory’s
Semester in Environmental Science at Woods Hole last fall.” Treat will
analyze her data in a senior honors thesis, which Bubier expects will be of “publishable
quality.”
Under the auspices of the NASA-UNH fellowship, Treat hopes to spend the summer
of 2005 at the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, before
pursuing a graduate degree at UNH.
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