Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog

First ARRL Foundation Goldfarb Scholarship Recipient Wins Research Fellowship:

A geology and environmental studies major, Schupack, 22, plans to attend the University of Colorado — Boulder in the fall, where he will be working within the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). His research will focus on the interaction between volcanic eruptions and Arctic climate variability, and he expects to undertake ice-core and lake-core field work in Iceland and Greenland.
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“As an undergraduate researcher, he’s presented at four professional meetings, three of which were national, and they’ve been on four different subjects,” Carson said. In addition to his scholarly endeavors, Schupack is lead trombonist in Whitman’s jazz band, and he’s a member of the school’s award-winning cycling team.

Last year Schupack took part in a semester abroad program in tropical marine ecology with the School for Field Studies in the Turks & Caicos Islands. Schupack and research colleague Elizabeth Stoner of Skidmore College analyzed the impact of fish-processing plant effluents on the surrounding waters and mangrove forests. As a result of their research, the processing plant owner’s decided to use an ultra-violet filter to eliminate dumping of bleach into the ocean.