One of NMC’s Great Lakes Water Studies Institute students has been selected for the Marine Advanced Technology Education Center (MATE) Internship program. Chris Horvath, a second-year Freshwater Studies student, travelled to Reykjavik, Iceland this summer to work aboard Columbia University’s research vessel, the R/V Langseth.
Under the direction of Dr. Richard Hey of the University of Hawaii, the internship is a month-long marine geophysical expedition to collect multibeam, magnetics and gravity data that will help to determine how the Iceland plume (or whatever form of mantle convection or heterogeneity creates Iceland) caused the reorganization of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of Iceland.
For more information on the MATE program and internship:
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