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Welcome to the new Near Surface Focus Group Student Website.  The goal of this page is to establish an online community for NS students and to provide easy access to information most relevant to student needs.  If you have any suggestions for how to improve the page, please email our NS Student Representative, Elliot Grunewald (elliotg@stanford.edu).

• Student Social Events at AGU
  There will be plenty of opportunities to interact with other students in the NS focus group at this year's AGU meeting, including daily impromptu lunch outings and a evening at the bar on Thursday. See the "social events" link or the Student Wiki for more information.
  
  
  
• Near Surface Student Wiki
  The Near Surface Student Wiki is up and running at ns-students.pbworks.com. Now comes the most important part: it is time for all our student members to really get involved in shaping the wiki into a resource that is most useful to them. If you are a student member and haven't yet visited the wiki, please go check it out. Add your information to the Student Members List. Take a look around the site, and feel free to add your own content wherever you like. It is incredibly simple to edit pages, and your contributions do not need to be polished -- even a short, one-sentence comment on how you would like to see something changed can seed other users act on that suggestion and implement your idea. Remember, only student members currently have access to the wiki. You can log on using the email address at which you receive this newsletter. If you have problems accessing the page, contact Elliot Grunewald (elliotg@stanford.edu).
  
  

• Graduate Student Blogs about Fieldwork in Rural India
  Clemson graduate student Dan Matz will be keeping a field blog over the next 5 months while he works on a water resource project in rural India. The project will feature EM induction and traditional hydrologic measurements for investigating soil moisture and groundwater changes during monsoon. Through the blog Dan will be communicating the excitement and frustrations of fieldwork, while also documenting his personal experiences working in a very poor and underdeveloped region. We are hoping that the blog will be an effective way for students (and the public) to get insight into the practical side of hydrogeophysics and increase interest in our field – particularly for applications in developing countries. Note that the blog is to interactive – Dan will be directly responding to posts by viewers. The blog is part of a project sponsored by the SEG Foundation through the Geoscientists Without Borders program and can be found at http://dansindiablog2009.blogspot.com/.
  More information about the project can be found at the website www.clemsongwb.info.