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Although she wrote much of her proposal herself, Stumpf said being awarded the fellowship wouldn't have happened without the help of the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, where she works.
For the fellowship, NASA will give the University a grant to develop an ultrawideband ice sensor while Stumpf develops a wide-flux imagining mode for it. After its completion, the sensor will be flown over Greenland and Antarctica
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"really feel completely fortunate and so blessed that I have the support of the center and the faculty and all the other students," she said. "Everyone's pooling in on this big research mission, and it's given me the opportunity to do something really amazing. I don't think I'd have the opportunity if I had just been writing it as a free agent."
"I thought I had no shot whatsoever," she said. "Honestly, writing a proposal was the hardest thing I think I've ever had to do because you kind of had to know where you were going to go. You're standing in a place where you feel so lost, and it took a lot of planning and thinking, so it was really challenging."
Stumpf said being granted the fellowship came as a complete shock.
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Theresa Stumpf, a doctoral student in electrical engineering, was awarded the fellowship after writing a six-page proposal that outlined her plans for a radar that can gather better data from ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to study the effects of climate change on sea levels.
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NASA awards grant to graduate student
A University graduate student has been granted a three-year, $90,000 fellowship from NASA to develop a new ice-penetrating radar.
to gather information from ice-sheets that can allow scientists to more effectively study the effect of climate change on the polar ice sheets and accurately predict future sea levels.
Stumpf is hopeful the opportunity to work on a project like this with such a prestigious institution will open more doors for her professionally.
"Certainly being able to go into the field, you make contacts with people at NASA," she said. "And for me, I always really wanted to work at a NASA research center as opposed to academia, and I think this
can only help hopefully, if I'm still standing by the end."
Stumpf's work on the project will begin in September when the grant money arrives. She hopes to be testing the imaging mode in a year.
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