SIGMA XI

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SIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SOCIETY
UNC Wilmington Annual Meeting
CIS 1008 April 19, 2011
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Our Agenda

• Welcome
• Induction of new members
• Invited talk
• Dr. Chad Lane, The Little Ice Age In The
  Circum-Caribbean Just How Little Was It And
  Why Should We Care?

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Sigma Xi

• Sigma Xi is the honor society of research
  scientists and engineers. It is an international,
  multidisciplinary society whose programs and
  activities promote the health of the scientific
  enterprise, reward excellence in scientific
  research and encourage a sense of companionship
  and cooperation among scientists in all fields.

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Sigma Xi

• A diverse, chapter-based organization dedicated
  to the advancement ofscience and engineering
  through outstanding programs and services
  delivered in a collegial and supportive
  environment.
• Approximately 60,000 individual members, 519
  chapters.
• Nomination is required to be considered for
  membership.

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2011 Sigma Xi Inductees

• Benjamin Eldon Barbour
• Jamie Rebecca DePriest
• Nathan McGinley Gavin
• Gaines M. Green
• Joseph Brandon Hilton
• Caitlin Elizabeth Kielhorn
• Nicholas Klocke
• David Daniel Macurak
• Mariel Leah Mayo
• Robert H. Morrow
• Youri Noel Nelson
• Jeffrey Nathan Raynor
• Nicole Angela Rocco
• Samantha Dale Stanford
• Brandy Pauline Velten

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Pledge to the Society

• Do you hereby pledge yourself, in accordance with
  the purposes and objectives of Sigma Xi, The
  Scientific Research Society, to encourage
  original investigations in science, to foster
  companionship and cooperation among scientists,
  to maintain honor, integrity and honesty in all
  scientific activities, and to assume the other
  continuing responsibilities of membership?

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Dr. Chad Lane

• Ph.D., University of Tennessee
• M.S, University of Tennessee
• B.S, University of Denver
• Mead-Witter Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence
  University
• Funding from
• National Science Foundation
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• Association of American Geographers

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Dr. Chad Lane

• The Little Ice Age In The Circum-Caribbean
• Just How Little Was It And Why Should We Care?

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