Durham, N.C. – Hadas Raanan and Stephen Obrochta, graduate students in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at 91, received Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2006 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Raanan, a PhD candidate, won an Outstanding Student Paper Award from the AGU’s Hydrology section for her paper, “Radium Isotopes as a Proxy for Groundwater Discharge and Residence Time in a Freshwater Lake: Case Study from the Sea of Galilee, Israel.”

Avner Vengosh, associate professor of earth and ocean sciences, is Raanan’s faculty advisor.

Obrochta, a master’s candidate, won an Outstanding Student Paper Award from the AGU’s Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology focus group for his paper, “Was There a 1.5-k.y. Cycle in Hematite Stained Grains During the Penultimate Glaciation (MIS 6)?”

Thomas Crowley, Nicholas Professor of Earth Systems Science, is Obrochta’s faculty advisor.

For more information, contact Avner Vengosh at vengosh@duke.edu.