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Internship 2005

At a Glance 06.18.2005

In the summer of 2005, the GCA hosted the second group of students for the Summer Undergraduate Internship in Astrobiology (SUIA) . Students were paired with mentors based on their research interests and spent 90% of their time actually doing research. The summer ended with each student presenting their reaserch during one of the NAI FAR Seminar series.

	The excited and not-at-all-nervous interns before the seminars begin. Right to Left: Karen Horning, Constantinos Makrides, Yana Radeva, Zachary Pozun, James Doty, Shannon Tronick
	Shannon Tronick (Syracuse University) interned with Co-I Paul Mahaffy (NASA Goddard) continuing the research into chemical derivatization techniques for expanding the breadth of organic analysis techniques.
	James Doty (DeMatha High School) interned with Co-I Jason Dworkin (NASA Goddard) on the simultaneous analysis of nucleobases and amino acids via LC ToF-MS.
	Zachary Pozun (University of Pittsburgh) interned with Co-I Marla Moore (NASA Goddard) investigating chemical changes following irradiation of nitrile-containing ices.
	Yana Radeva (Connecticut College) returned her second year studying comets with Boncho Bonev (Toledo University). Yana performed a quantitative analysis of comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR).
	Constantinos Makrides (Iona College) interned with Co-I Michael DiSanti (NASA Goddard) on problems related to comets. Costa streamlined the calculation of line-by-line fluoresence efficiency factors for water for comparison with emissions seen in our comet spectra.
	Karen Horning (Florida Inst Technology) interned with Co-I Drake Deming (NASA Goddard) searching for spectroscopic signatures of extrasolar planets in the infrared spectral region near 2 microns

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