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THE UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINAat CHAPEL HILLJanuary 17, 2012UCAR / Visiting Scientist ProgramsP.O. Box 3000Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USAJaye Cable, ChairCurriculum for Environment and Ecology4202H Venable Murray HallCampus Box 3300Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3300T: (919) 843-3468F: (919) 962-1254jecable@email.unc.eduDear Selection Committee:I am delighted to write this letter of recommendation Dr. Christopher Lundberg for the NOAA/UCARPostdoctoral Fellowship. I have known Chris in my capacity as one of his PhD committee members forthe last three and a half years and as the instructor for Chemical Oceanography at Louisiana StateUniversity. I moved to UNC last January, but Chris was always very good about keeping in touch withhis committee about his progress. Chris has been a hardworking and diligent young scientist throughoutmy acquaintance with his work. I would rank him in the top 12% of students graduating from theDepartment of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU.I will offer my assessment of Chris’s potential as a scientist and his scholarship potential. Chris haspublished two papers from his Master’s research which is a very strong sign of his ability to followthrough on his work. He also has strong statistical skills, honed while doing his BS and MS degreesunder the direction of Dr. Gary Schaeffer, which proved of great use to him during his dissertation dataanalysis. He is still writing his papers from his dissertation research, but my sense from his defense inDecember is that these papers would be submitted this spring. The committee asked for a number ofrevisions to his work, all of which were designed to strengthen the papers. Chris is a mild-mannered andquiet person who steadily works toward his goals. He remained in contact with me throughout the winterholiday break asking questions and getting clarification about comments. I was impressed with hisattention to detail.Overall, I believe Chris has developed into a competitive young scientist. He has the tools to become anexcellent educator-scientist if provided with the right outlet. The UCAR post-doctoral scholar/visitingscientist program is an excellent avenue for Chris to pursue where he can merge his skills inbiogeochemical cycling, statistics, and climate change with the practical applications of carbonsequestration. I highly recommend Christopher Lundberg for this program.Sincerely,Jaye CableProfessor of Marine ScienceChair, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology
Volker Stiller, Ph. D.Department of Biological SciencesSoutheastern Louisiana UniversitySLU Box 10736Hammond, LA 70402January 13, 2012Dear Members of the Steering Committee,I am happy to write this letter in support of Christopher Lundberg’s application for a NOAA Climateand Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship.I met Chris a few years ago when he took graduate level Plant Physiology and Advanced StressEcophysiology with me. In both courses, Chris impressed me with his intellectual aptitude and hard workethic. He was clearly at the top of both classes. For example, a large component of the Stress EcoPhyscourse was an independent research project that the students had to write a proposal for, design theexperiment, and present the results in form of a PowerPoint presentation and as a written final report. Notonly did Chris come up with a very unique and creative idea, but he also worked harder on his project thansome other, more “senior”, graduate students.After getting to know Chris in the classroom, I was happy to oblige when he asked me to serve on hisMasters Thesis Committee. I trained him in the use of several instruments and I was very much impressedhow quickly Chris was able to master the required techniques. Chris is a hard worker; he is technicallyadept and always ready to lend a helping hand.Although it was a pleasure having Chris as a student and a research assistant, reducing him solely to hisintellectual aptitude would not do him justice. Chris has a great personality and he is very reliable in everyaspect. He is an exceptionally dedicated researcher with an outstanding sense of humor, whose “can do”attitude will be invaluable in his future career.Let me conclude this letter by once again wholeheartedly supporting Christopher Lundberg’sapplication for a Postdoctoral Fellowship. Chris has great scientific potential, a wonderful personality andhe is very consistent in his effort to become an environmental scientist.If you have any other question about Chris or need additional information, feel free to call me at (985)549-2493 or contact me via email at: vstiller@selu.edu.Sincerely,Volker Stiller, Ph.D.
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