The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $110,000 Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship (AAPF) grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Catherine Manea of Columbia University. Manea will leverage machine learning and upcoming sky surveys to better understand the evolution of the chemical composition of the Milky Way galaxy. As part of the educational component, Manea will play a leading role in the newly founded StreamTeam TNG program, which provides research experience to undergraduate students, especially those from community colleges, in New York City. The project aims to place empirical constraints on galactic chemical evolution by measuring the chemical diversity of field stars and the chemical similarity of stars born together.
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