Posted on Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 8:22 a.m.
University of Michigan professor says she will use $875,000 award to study prehistoric ice in Greenland
By Kellie Woodhouse
This week University of Michigan earth and environmental science professor Sarah Aciego won an $875,000 grant to study whatever she wants.
Sarah Aciego
Photo courtesy of U-M
According to a Detroit Free Press article, Aciego was one of 16 people to win a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering through the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
The fellowship is awarded in $175,000 increments over five years and comes with no restrictions, although Aciego told the Free Press she plans to study prehistoric ice in Greenland.
Read the full Free Press story here.
Kellie Woodhouse covers higher education for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at kelliewoodhouse@annarbor.com or 734-623-4602 and follow her on twitter.
Comments
Jeffersonian Liberal
Sat, Oct 20, 2012 : 2:57 p.m.
If a private individual wishes to waste their own money promoting the junk science of climate change they're welcomed to do so. However, when the government borrows money from Communist China to perpetuate this myth we're all screwed. Follow the money trail, academics feeding at the government trough believe this lie. Scientist that dare to question are vilified and threatened. Guess what, the planets climate is constant change.
shepard145
Sat, Oct 20, 2012 : 2:49 p.m.
Explore the bottom of the ocean and the moons around Mars. Continue to study genetics, disease and advanced weapons. The money spent on her vacation would be better spent exploring for strategic metals, oil, coal and gas.
Barb McParlan
Sat, Oct 20, 2012 : 11:40 a.m.
What a waste of money. So many geater needs than this.
justcurious
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 8:43 p.m.
How many people would $875,000 feed? Sick.
Billy Bob Schwartz
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 4:27 p.m.
Maybe Dr. Aciego can find out if the earliest life on our planet was a cynical as the current life. That would be interesting. Good luck, Professor, in the work you are doing. Stay warm.
Barzoom
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 2:06 p.m.
The study is to determine whether refrigerator ice or Greenland ice is better in cocktails.
Linda Peck
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 1:16 p.m.
Very cool! Seriously, this is a worthy subject to study. Professor Aciego has grit! Congratulations to her and her fellow scientists in their projects.
Dog Guy
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 1:14 p.m.
Cool! I had thought environmental science professors studied the ice in Mojito, which is far less strenuous and dangerous than in Greenland. Good luck to her and to us with what she discovers.
hmsp
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 1:12 p.m.
There are some interesting sand formations in Pago Pago that I'd like to study more closely....
shepard145
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 1:10 p.m.
Oh goodie - how original. …or better yet, WHY? Is she going to pretend that the ice has bubbles that contain prehistoric air samples in the presence of liquid water? Don't let elementary chemistry get in the way of eco hysteria and wasting money obama borrowed from China and passes out like it belongs to him rather than your grand children, who will be forced to pay it back.
shepard145
Sun, Oct 21, 2012 : 4:09 p.m.
I don't care what your politics are – especially since this eco junket is privately funded. Congratulations to the eco marketing machine that convinced anyone to pay for such absurd eco vacations when there is a need for legitimate research in other fields. – but it's their money and their problem.
Billy Bob Schwartz
Sat, Oct 20, 2012 : 2:45 p.m.
shepard...nice rant. I guess you know all about us and what are politics are. I happen to know that one of the people you are impaling is a conservative. The rest of us, well, what does it matter to you? we are all a bunch of ecowhatevers. Rant on, my friend.
shepard145
Sat, Oct 20, 2012 : 2:48 a.m.
I am glad to read that the grant is from a private source. If they want to flit away their cash that way, it's not my problem. I do wonder how many of the eco hysterics writing here would know a SCIENTIFIC FACT if they were impaled on one. Do you think Al Gores movie contained a SCIENTIFIC FACT? LOL Do you think that discovering a 20,000 year old global warming trend is the same as Michigan consumbers controlling the planet's weather with the power they buy or car they drive? No, eco hysterics, you are not only unable to answer basic questions about what you think you know, but you don't even know what questions to ask of your proffit gobbling puppeteers.
arborarmy
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 7:22 p.m.
Oh, common, Billy Bob, Jack, bhall, and Alan. You actually expect that facts will be a part of this rant?
alan
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 6:04 p.m.
The money is a private grant from the Packard Foundation. Much can be learned from taking deep ice samples that have been there for a very long time.
bhall
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 4:49 p.m.
Not to mention this is private money. Obama's not involved. LOL.
Jack Campbell
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 4:38 p.m.
The ultra-conservative bias against scientific FACT is pretty disgusting. Wake up, this isn't the 1500's.
Billy Bob Schwartz
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 4:25 p.m.
Wow. This is some comment. I guess you don't believe that it's important to find out what happened to our planet eons ago. The world is flat. The climate is totally stable. Research is a ripoff. Wow.
Ron Granger
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 : 12:46 p.m.
Awesome.