The director of UNM’s new graduate degree program for nanoscience and microsystems Abhaya Datye has worked with the staff at the Center for High Performance Computng (CHPC) to assemble a supercomputer capable of teraflop calculations. Grants from the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Educations and Research Traineeship (IGERT) and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) along with money from the Chemistry and Biocomputing Departments at UNM made it possible to acquire this computer.

From sources as diverse as newspaper archives, transportation ledgers and religious observances, the researchers have amassed 150 years of lake and river ice records spanning the Northern Hemisphere.

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