June 20, 2018

 

The NASA ESS fellowship is highly competitive, awarded to ~10% of applicants, and provides funding for up to 3 years to support graduate research. Yan's NASA ESS Fellowship will support the remainder of his PhD work, which is focused on applying the High Performance Computing data assimilation approaches that he has developed to investigate the 2006 eruption of Korovin Volcano in the Aleutian Arc of Alaska.