PhD candidate Emily Chua selected for LOREX Canada initiative
PhD candidate Emily Chua has been invited to join the Limnology & Oceanography Research Exchange (LOREX), sponsored by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography. This NSF-funded initiative sponsors up to 30 U.S.-based graduate students per year to conduct collaborative research in aquatic science at an international host institution. Emily will work with several oceanographers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to deploy a newly-developed porewater sampling system/underwater mass spectrometer (POSSUMS) in a local urban harbour, as well as the Bay of Fundy, to study the biogeochemistry of these environments.
Additionally, Chua was awarded a Short-Term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship from the BU Graduate School for Arts & Sciences, which provides funds from alumni gifts for doctoral students to conduct research in another country. Emily will be using these funds to support field deployments of an underwater mass spectrometer that she has been helping develop and test.
Emily is advised by Associate Professor Wally Fulweiler.