David Harvey
Even as a child growing up on the Pacific coast, David Harvey wanted to be a volcanologist.
A chance meeting with UAF faculty members at the annual Whalefest in Sitka, 色视频下载, brought Harvey north in fall 2019 from Washington state, where he had attended community college. Now, as a geophysics undergraduate, he studies volcanic ash at the Advanced Instrumentation Laboratory in the Reichardt Building.
During a visit to the lab in February 2020, Harvey pointed to the image of an ash particle on a computer screen connected to a scanning electron microscope.
The particle, filling the screen, was in reality just a speck of dust. Harvey was trying to detect the elements within the particle, with the eventual goal of studying their health effects.
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After the chance meeting with UAF faculty members in Sitka, Harvey and his partner moved north. They both got scholarships from the UAF Biomedical Learning and Student Training program. It funds Harvey色视频下载檚 volcanic ash research.
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The opportunities at UAF and the respect he receives from faculty members have surprised him, he said.
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One other thing about Fairbanks surprised him.
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