Past Fulbrighters/Case Studies
Sindia Sosdian
Cardiff University Scholar Award, 2009-10
Fulbright Project: Research on understanding climate change across the last five million years, Cardiff University
Sindia Sosdian grew up in New Jersey and lived about 20 minutes from the shore. During her senior year in high school, she learned how to surf. Her surfing passion, introduced her to the fundamentals of climate and oceanography. She received a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, cum laude from Monmouth University, a small institution situated on the coast of New Jersey. Her background in chemistry and surfing motivated her to continue her studies at graduate school in the field of oceanography. In 2002, she was accepted into the PhD program at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of NJ in the paleoceanography research group. Her PhD research involved using geochemical proxies to quantify changes in temperature and continental ice sheets to better understand the causes and mechanisms of Pleistocene ice ages. While at Rutgers, she received an Ocean Drilling Program Fellowship and conducted outreach projects to help the NJ community understand oceanography and climate change. Several of her thesis chapters have been published in peer-reviewed scientific publications. After graduating last year, she received the Sir Keith Murdoch Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research in Australia at the Australian National University on understanding past climate change using tracers in coral skeletons. As a Fulbright scholar, she will work on understanding climate change across the last five million years.
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