andrealphus

Figure I might as well kick off the NDSEG 2012 thread... Last year descisons didnt go out unitl the 3rd week of April - and about 5% of people (here) just were never informed (had to email and ask). Let the speculation begin!

Yea..... I'm imagining a big stack of applications in a corner.. "Hey Jim, did you ever forward these onto the DoD?" "Ohhhhh......that's where they were suppose to go?"

Mother #*#@ers...... didnt get it.

Just emailed, and now a new wait continues....

Or maybe they forgot about us.....The 0.5% whose applications got lost...

Alright, who's going to call? (I would, but damnit, I have no fingers to dial, and no uvula to pronounce syllables)

Nope..... (lost in the DoD mail??)

Next Monday? I hate you if that's true.....

I know of about 4 people who are still in the dark for OE........(havent heard of anyone getting a yes for NA/OE...) I think they might have something against ocean science....

Someone should call.......

Sooooo...... How many of us still havent heard back yet (and what field)? OE

It's a geophysicist's favorite. Kind of like the movie "The Core" for geologists. I remember a friend of mine who was doing magnetic plate reconstructions around iceland (she was Icelandic, funny enough), found the ever expanding earth video. A chuckle was had by all.

I got rejected from the DOE CSGF last week.........I was hoping to get all the rejections out of the way at once. So where does all the Nitrogen go? Have you ever seen this video? Awesome!

I just finished a MS in geophysics (http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010/2009JB006877.shtml), but decided to switch over to OE/Oceanography (working on a PhD in Oceanography at Rhode Island and a MS in OE at New Hampshire). My proposal was to build a highres 3D subbottom profiler (AUV/ROV microseismics) - using navigation methodologies taken from Simultaneous Location and Mapping (SLAM). I want to use it to image shipwrecks......(arrrrgggghhhhh!!!!) But said it would make a good mine-hunter/UXO detector. But I might not even have qualified given that I have a previous MS degree - I had to write an exemption request stating I was switching fields.... who knows....

Naval Arch - OE

AGGGGGGHHHH!!!! Still Nothing! Answer me! Validate my existence!

Glad to see I'm not the only one..... So what's everyone's poison this morning? Mine is "A Self Consistent Bathymetric Mapping Algorithm".... but I doubt Ill get through it until I hear about these decisions...

I believe you mean, congratulations...... (I'm sitting at my desk downing pots of coffee, I definitely cant read the papers in front of me in this state) Plus I have to at least pretend.....I bet I never even made it past the initial "google that dude's name" criteria ..... ;(

"Dear Mr. XXxxxXXX On behalf of the the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Committee we would like to congratulate you on being awarded the 2011 NDSEG fellowship in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering. The Department of Defense (DoD) is committed to increasing the number and quality of our nation's scientists and engineers, and towards this end, has awarded approximately 3,200 NDSEG fellowships since the program's inception 22 years ago. We are proud to have you as one of our nation's scientists. The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research(AFOSR), the Army Research Office (ARO), the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCM), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), under the direction of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E). We would further like to extend our humblest request that you do all within your power to take pity on those who were unfortunate enough not to receive one of our awards. We ask that you share a bit of your awesomeness amongst them, so that they may remain on the true path of scientific virtue. Unlike past years, where an individual recipient receives a single award, we have decided to make an exception. Due to your amazing intellectual prowess, boyish charm, and quite frankly, blindingly handsome physique, we have opt to award you 100% of the available funding in your field of specialization. Stay awesome Mr. XXxxxxXXx - you will receive your hooker limousine party shorty."