Davidson Fellows

Hey board, well most of you know of my goals, I wish to become a scientist in one of the various fields of the geosciences. This goal requires a large amount of money for the education so I am now seeking to be awarded scholarship money. One award called the Davidson Fellows award is high paying and thus has very high expectations in submitted prodigious work from its participants. I am planning on entering so I would like some suggestions. I want to do my project centered on geoscientific research, and I think I'll keep it mainstream . I need suggestions on the field of study, eg. paleomagnetism, geomagnetism, geochemistry, geodynamics, etc. However I would like a specific research area which will profoundly impact the judges on the projects extensive 'expertise' or 'sophistication' if you will. A list of some valuable resources are also highly appreciated.--For the benefit and hope of my future, I would most love to hear from anyone here with a geoscientific background who may have an appropriate suggestion in regards to the above.--Here a link for more information: http://www.ditd.org/ditd.php?location=19------------------

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Well, the deadline was March 29, 2002. Are these annual awards? I can think of several projects for you to work on. Are you willing to travel and do laboratory work? In part, the idea should arise from your own intuition.CheersJoe Meert

"Well, the deadline was March 29, 2002. Are these annual awards? I can think of several projects for you to work on. Are you willing to travel and do laboratory work? In part, the idea should arise from your own intuition."
--Yes it's an annual one. I could possibly be willing to do some sort of laboratory work if it would be needed, though the vicinity which I would be able to travel would most likely be onerously small. Having the idea coming from my own intuition would possibly be appropriate, though I do not believe it is something discredited by the work submitted. Something, for instance, which you as an expert would know is a minutely explored theory in the scientific community, or an area of study which would be challenging in my youth to impress anyone who might critique it. I just thought I would get an underlying suggestion for what type of soil to plant my seed in. If you see what I mean.--[Edit] - Given even a few minutes of thought. Laboratory work would be an increasingly high advantage for the credibility of anything which I might compile. I'm not quite sure but I would suspect there being even a possibility of a local university department 'sponsoring' a trip like this if expenses got in the way and I am up to this type of challenge. Thoughts on this as well would be great.------------------

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Current projects I am working on can be found http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmeert/2002.htm
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmeert/2001.htmCheersJoe Meert

Dr. Meert, I've read your project works and they are inspiring. I have made a decision as to the direction of my topic for discussion and the paper which I am currently working on is titled: Radioisotopic Dating Techniques, Earth history, & the applicability of Geochemical Modeling. The POV is entirely mainstream. I took a little bit of time in compiling the abstract for the paper in attempts to make a more specific target for me to keep in mind as I write the body. There is a tendency for me in writing lengthy essays for me in struggling to stay on topic, even though this paper is branching into several fields of study.Abstract:
The veracity of radioactivity and its direct application in geochronology has been in increasingly short dispute regarding the extent of its validity in the past few decades. In the most part this observation is found because it is the only known technique by which absolute dating may be acquired. It has refined today's geologic column as well as its stratigraphic inclusions concealed in its globally correlated successive strata. Quantifiably, the worth of radioisotope interpretation and possible alternative explanatory thoughts are presented. Scientific theoretical reasoning on the flexibility and basis for the age of the earth are constructed with and from the addition of the possible significance for the application of geochemistry. Geochemical modeling plays a considerably vast role in the distribution of radioactive and stable isotopes in the earths convecting mantle, core, and lithospheric crust. From the beginnings of the solar system and its theoretical nebulae formation on through history, the solid and viscous earth has mixed and distributed its elements throughout. The significance of these observations is thoroughly dissected.
The various radioisotopic systems are also viewed, its limitations and its location of tending concentration will be noted. Brief histories on plate tectonics, geodynamics, geochemistry, stratigraphy & deposition, radioactive decay, and cosmology will be given with degrees of emphasis on geodynamics, geochemical modeling, and the diverse topics of radioactivity. Alternative models are constructed where required with discussions and disputes on their feasibility when found necessary. Introductory, intermediary, and advanced research initiatives in their relevance are thoroughly presented and discussed with rigour and a pervasive line of unbiased scientific inquiry.
--The abstract may be greatly modified when I complete the body of the article. Even the format in which it is written doesn't seem all to 'abstract like'. While it may seem that I am asking a bit much of myself, this is basically what I am shooting for. I currently have 5 pages of discussion on 4 out of 12+ topics, many which are not very close to finished. If I might guess what the outcome will be in length, I might as well put it up for publication as a text-book with the sub-title "a young scientists research initiative".-Just an update.------------------

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If i was to work in the geo-sciences, I would be trying using GIS and decision support pursuant to (not my own idea of "featureless maps clade techinally characterized, for which I will only name as there may be $ here for me later ...) GVIS not virtual reality that continues the work of NEw Zeland Panbiogeographers such as J. Grehan at Penn State where Croizat's notion of geographic homology is asserted but recieves less noteriorty than the sea bird the extra-biblical hortizianism it arose in part out of gets. I would prefer working on the technicalities of remote sensing integration than the correlation of strata as the panspemia would rather continue to be on all lips otherwise unless this homolgy find paternity back to British scholarship which would make world wide happiness.I also was interested in the sea floor spreading as giving any possible time to get out of the dillema of improbaility that the origin of life would have spelled to the eleder in the congregation.