{"id":58844,"date":"2014-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-oceanography-student-awarded-prestigious-fellowship\/"},"modified":"2014-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T00:00:00","slug":"uri-oceanography-student-awarded-prestigious-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/uri-oceanography-student-awarded-prestigious-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 oceanography student awarded prestigious fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 April 7, 2014 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 doctoral student Justine Sauvage is one of only five students in the country to be awarded a $30,000 fellowship this year to conduct research through the International Ocean Discovery Program. The prestigious Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowship will enable her to expand her studies of subseafloor sediments.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so excited that I got the fellowship; it\u2019s sort of like the cherry on the top of my academic career,\u201d said Sauvage, who is in the second year of her doctoral studies at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography. She earned a master\u2019s degree at GSO in 2012.<\/p>\n


\n\tA native of Brussels, Sauvage is studying the microbial activity deep in the sediment in the South Pacific gyre, the farthest place from land on Earth, a place where very few cells live and where even less organic matter ever reaches the seafloor. Sediments contain numerous radioactive elements, and it is likely that the living organisms are feeding on the hydrogen produced from the radioactive splitting of water, a process called radiolysis, since little else is available to eat.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIf that kind of nuclear life is taking place on Earth, then we can extrapolate that it may be happening in other less-hospitable environments characterized by wet sediments rich in radioactive elements, like subsurface Mars and Europa,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tSauvage is working to calculate how much hydrogen is being produced in the sediments in the South Pacific gyre in an effort to determine how much life can survive there. With her fellowship, she plans to expand this research to create a map of hydrogen production at different depths in the sediments around the world.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cSediment characteristics differ from place to place because of different physical properties and different concentrations of radioactive elements,\u201d she explained. \u201cSo hydrogen production will vary from place to place. At the end of my project I want to be able to look at the global scale to see the range of hydrogen production and where the hotspots are.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSauvage, who spent two months aboard a Japanese research ship in 2012 when it drilled deeper into the seafloor than any other ship in history, uses the nuclear reactor at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Narragansett Bay Campus to conduct experiments for her research. \u201cIt\u2019s so convenient to have the reactor right here whenever I need a radiation source to irradiate my sediment samples. It\u2019s nice to have the resources of the state at my disposal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs she looks to her future, Sauvage is considering jobs in a variety of disciplines related to her current research, including nuclear science and alternative fuels.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI really like what I\u2019m studying now, but I want to apply it to something that\u2019s a little bit closer to day-to-day life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\nThe International Ocean Discovery Program, which funds the Schlanger Fellowship, is an international marine research collaboration that explores Earth’s history and dynamics using ocean-going research platforms to recover data recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks and to monitor subseafloor environments.<\/p>\n


\nPictured above: Graduate student Justine Sauvage poses in front of the nuclear reactor at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Bay Campus where she does her research. (Photo courtesy of Justine Sauvage)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 April 7, 2014 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 doctoral student Justine Sauvage is one of only five students in the country to be awarded a $30,000 fellowship this year to conduct research through the International Ocean Discovery Program. The prestigious Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowship will enable her to expand her studies of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}