Send Mae to Goldschmidt 2017!
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Hi all!
My name is Mae, and I'm an undergraduate student/researcher (chemistry major; geology minor) at Georgia State University. For my bachelor's thesis, I've been conducting research on the potential of a certian micaceous mineral to act as a sorbent for aqueous radioactive waste with applications for environmental remediation--Think cleaning up radioactive spills at the Fukushima Daiichi site in Japan, or at the Savannah River Site, in South Carolina, USA.
In August (08/13/17-08/18/17), my research is being presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in Paris, France. This is the annual, international conference on geochemistry, and it's kind of a big deal, especially for an undergraduate student like me.
Donations would help me pay for conference registration, round trip air fare, food, and hotel/motel/AirBnB accomodations for the duration of the conference.
More about my research:
Here's a link to our Goldschmidt 2017 abstract. (I'm the second author; my legal name is Dominique.)
Below is the poster I presented at Georgia State's Undergraduate Research Conference (GSURC) this past spring. It won the Sustainability Award for Best Applied Reserach Project.
Because my research takes a waste product from mining, and turns it into another product that can help clean up the environment, it's a really great thing for sustainability efforts.
How have we been conducting this research?
This is me, prepping some solutions to determine how well this mineral sucks up radioactive cesium at Clemson University.
The guy in the background is Dr. Brian Powell, an actinide chemist, who runs the Rich Lab at Clemson. This is where we've been conducting the majority of our experiments, as our lab at Georgia State isn't well equipped to handle radioactive stuff.
If you have any questions about our methods, data analyses, etc, don't hesitate to ask me!
All in all, presenting at Goldschmidt 2017 will be a great thing for the exposition of this research, and a great thing to help advance my career as a budding geochemist. Hopefully, I'll have the opportunity to make all kinds of great professional connections, as well as see other folks' research in the field today.
I've dreamed of being a geochemist since I was a little girl (maybe since I was 10 or 11? I was a weird kid...) and slowly but surely, my dreams are coming true! Presenting at Goldschmidt 2017 will be a very intergral part of attaining this dream!
Thank you for listening to my story. If you can help me out, even a little bit (like, $1) I will be infinitely grateful.
Thanks much!
Mae Kwong-Moses
B.Sc Chemistry; Geology
Georgia State University, 2017
My name is Mae, and I'm an undergraduate student/researcher (chemistry major; geology minor) at Georgia State University. For my bachelor's thesis, I've been conducting research on the potential of a certian micaceous mineral to act as a sorbent for aqueous radioactive waste with applications for environmental remediation--Think cleaning up radioactive spills at the Fukushima Daiichi site in Japan, or at the Savannah River Site, in South Carolina, USA.
In August (08/13/17-08/18/17), my research is being presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in Paris, France. This is the annual, international conference on geochemistry, and it's kind of a big deal, especially for an undergraduate student like me.
Donations would help me pay for conference registration, round trip air fare, food, and hotel/motel/AirBnB accomodations for the duration of the conference.
More about my research:
Here's a link to our Goldschmidt 2017 abstract. (I'm the second author; my legal name is Dominique.)
Below is the poster I presented at Georgia State's Undergraduate Research Conference (GSURC) this past spring. It won the Sustainability Award for Best Applied Reserach Project.
Because my research takes a waste product from mining, and turns it into another product that can help clean up the environment, it's a really great thing for sustainability efforts.
How have we been conducting this research?
This is me, prepping some solutions to determine how well this mineral sucks up radioactive cesium at Clemson University.
The guy in the background is Dr. Brian Powell, an actinide chemist, who runs the Rich Lab at Clemson. This is where we've been conducting the majority of our experiments, as our lab at Georgia State isn't well equipped to handle radioactive stuff.
If you have any questions about our methods, data analyses, etc, don't hesitate to ask me!
All in all, presenting at Goldschmidt 2017 will be a great thing for the exposition of this research, and a great thing to help advance my career as a budding geochemist. Hopefully, I'll have the opportunity to make all kinds of great professional connections, as well as see other folks' research in the field today.
I've dreamed of being a geochemist since I was a little girl (maybe since I was 10 or 11? I was a weird kid...) and slowly but surely, my dreams are coming true! Presenting at Goldschmidt 2017 will be a very intergral part of attaining this dream!
Thank you for listening to my story. If you can help me out, even a little bit (like, $1) I will be infinitely grateful.
Thanks much!
Mae Kwong-Moses
B.Sc Chemistry; Geology
Georgia State University, 2017
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Lilburn, GA