John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

The March 30th issue of Space News features a profile article on Joanne Gabrynowicz, J.D., titled Space Law 101: Filling the Legal Vacuum.  Joanne was a member of the original Space Studies faculty in 1987 and taught space law at UND until 2001.  This article may be found here.

Atmospheric Sciences M.S. graduate student, Aaron Scott, has been selected to attend the Intensive Summer School in Computing from Environmental Sciences program sponsored by NASA and the University of Virginia. After the summer school, Aaron will intern at the NASA Langley Research Center’s Atmospheric Science Data Center where he will help develop and implement software […]

The Spring 2015 Space Studies Colloquium Series will focus on the NASA Discovery Program–the development of a planetary science mission– and will feature several leading experts in the field. The fourth presentation in this series will feature  John Sloan, Senior Space Policy Analyst and Program Lead for International Outreach, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Commercial […]

The Spring 2015 Space Studies Colloquium Series will focus on the NASA Discovery Program–the development of a planetary science mission– and will feature several leading experts in the field.   The third presentation in this series will feature  Dr. W. Bruce Banerdt – Principal Investigator, InSight Mission to Mars 321-B60, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA […]

ESSP graduate students Afshin Shabani and Brent Silvis are attending the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) workshop to be held at Purdue University in April 1-2, 2015. Currently, the SWAT model has been used by ESSP faculty n both NSF and USDA funded researches to study the impact of land use and climate change on […]

The ESSP Department welcomes Dr. Wai Wah Ng a new postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Ng will be working with Dr. Xiaodong Zhang on studying impact of regional climate change on water balance. This research is part of a five-year EPSCoR NSF award “Center for Regional Climate Study” a collaborative research project involving faculty of the ESSP […]

Space Studies alum, Tiffany Swarmer (M.S. 2014), was featured in the recent issue of Alumni Review.  See the article here.  

Thirty educators attended the Space Grant sessions at the 2015 ND Math and Science Teachers’ Meeting: Full STEAM Ahead. Resources for the sessions presented on 3/20/2015 are available for download below. This same activity was conducted with 20 education students from the University of North Dakota on 3/25/15.  Thanks to both groups for some fun […]

Space Studies master’s student, Travis Nelson, will defend his thesis as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.  Please show your support! When:  Monday, March 23rd at 8:30am (Central time) Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: 30 Day Lunar/Martian Planetary Habitation Analog: An Assessment of Crew Stress, Anxiety, and Performance About […]