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QUiCK LooKs Professor Earns Book, Teaching Awards 2015 was a stellar year for UM biology Professor Doug Emlen. First, a book he wrote was awarded the 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. Then several weeks later, he was named Montana Professor of the Year. Emlen received the award for his book “Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle” and a $10,000 prize at a gala dinner Dec. 4 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The award is presented by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s oldest academic honor society. Since 1959, the group has presented the award to recognize outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science. Past book winners include the likes of “Guns, Germs and Steel” by Jared Diamond, which also won the Pulitzer Prize. “I worked long hours on this book, and receiving this award is a wonderful affirmation,” Emlen says. “It’s a great feeling to know you are bringing real science to the public in an entertaining and meaningful way. “Animal Weapons” tells the story behind the incredible weapons we see in the animal world and what they can tell us about the way humans protect ourselves. Emlen takes the reader outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles of the world to explain the processes behind the most extreme of animal weapons. Emlen was named the 2015 Montana Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He was one of 35 educators selected nationwide from nearly 400 top professors nominated. “There are a lot of us here at UM who take tremendous pleasure from teaching – finding new ways to excite students, challenging them to think hard about the world around them,” Emlen says. “I’m proud to be one of them and to be recognized for this facet of what we do.” UM Helps Discover How Water Escapes from Saturn A UM astrophysics professor helped discover how water ions escape from Saturn’s environment. His team’s findings were published last year in the journal Nature Physics. UM Professor Daniel Reisenfeld is a member of the Cassini research team. Cassini is a NASA-managed probe that has orbited Saturn continuously collecting data since 2004. One of the instruments on Cassini measures the planet’s magnetosphere – the charged particles, known as plasma, that are trapped in the space surrounding Saturn by its magnetic field. One of Cassini’s past discoveries is that Saturn’s plasma comprises water ions, which are derived from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which spews water vapors from its Yellowstone-like geysers. Knowing the water ions would not be able to accumulate indefinitely, the team of researchers set out to explain how the water ions escape from Saturn’s magnetosphere. The answers to this phenomenon were published by Nature Physics in an article titled “Cassini in situ observations of long-duration magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s magnetotail.” In the paper, the authors explain that the plasma found a place to exhaust out of the magnetosphere at a reconnection point – basically where magnetic fields from one environment disconnect and reconnect with magnetic fields from another environment. In the case of Saturn, researchers discovered the reconnection point was located at the back of the planet, where the magnetotail was connecting with the solar winds’ magnetic field. Reisenfeld likens the situation to a rotary or a traffic circle. Once you get into the rotary you have limited exit points. “If you can’t find the exit, you keep going around in circles,” he says. “So, the plasma around Saturn is basically trapped to go around the rotary. We assumed it had to escape somehow and somewhere, but actually finding the jettison point is pretty cool.” Saturn is a very rapidly rotating planet. This discovery will help scientists understand the physics of how other rapid rotators such as Jupiter, stars and pulsars expel their materials and the details of how it works. Professor Consults for PBS Civil War Drama UM Professor Anya Jabour spent five weeks in Virginia last year working as a historical consultant for the new PBS Civil War drama “Mercy Street,” which premiered Jan. 17. Jabour’s job was to make the actors appear as authentic as possible, whether they were interacting with family members or with strangers, whether they were of a younger generation or an older one, African-American or white, Confederate or Union. And that meant providing them with the social guidelines of the time. Jabour was asked to lend her expertise after her 2007 book, “Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South,” ended up in the hands of producer Lisa Wolfinger. UM Professor Anya Jabour poses with Hannah James, who plays Emma Green in the new PBS Civil War drama “Mercy Street.” (Photo courtesy of Anya Jabour) Jabour served as a script reviewer when the series was in the early stages of development. In this role, she commented on characters, plot and dialogue, with a focus on young women’s wartime experiences, including shifting gender roles, evolving courtship practices and changing family dynamics. Once the series went into production in spring 2015, Wolfinger invited Jabour to serve as on-set historical consultant. In addition to providing guidance when it came to behaviors that were changing as a result of the war, Jabour worked with the actors on following the social mores of the time, like how to walk in public. Vision 2016 5PDF Image | Carbon Vision 2016
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