Ivy Tan, a graduate student in Trude Storelvmo’s lab, and Shineng Hu, a graduate student in Alexey Fedorov’s lab, have received NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships. Ivy’s project was titled “Improving Cloud Phase Predictions Through the Use of CALIOP Retrievals” while Shineng’s was titled “The Impact of Westerly Wind Bursts and Ocean State on the Development and Diversity of El Niño Events: Insights from Satellite-Based Observations and Numerical Experiments”. The fellowship, worth $30,000 per year, is awarded by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Earth Science Division with a purpose to “ensure the continued training of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASA’s scientific goals”. It is highly competitive and selection is a “real mark of distinction” - only 54 awards were made this year.