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RAPID CITY, S.D. (Dec. 17, 2012) – P.V. Sundareshwar, Ph.D., state carbon scientist for South Dakota and associate professor in the atmospheric sciences department at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, has been awarded a fellowship by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
He is serving as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the Diplomacy, Security and Development track of the Executive Branch. In this position, Dr. Sundareshwar is a climate change advisor to the Africa Bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He is spending a year in the Washington, D.C. office, and will make several trips to Africa.
Fellowship appointments are extremely competitive and require a formal, three-tier merit review and peer-review process for selection. Interviews are conducted in Washington by selection committees of professionals with expertise in science, technology and policy.
As a part of the Africa Bureau’s climate change team, Dr. Sundareshwar will work closely with the senior regional climate change advisor on adaptation, providing program planning and design support to missions throughout sub-Saharan Africa. He will also serve as a member of the wider Environment Team and be expected to engage regularly with the Agriculture Team in the Economic Growth, Environment and Agriculture Division within the Africa Bureau’s Office of Sustainable Development.
Dr. Sundareshwar came to SDSM&T from Duke University in 2003 as an assistant professor. He has also served as the program chair for the Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Ph.D. program and is the director of the Biogeochemistry Core Facility at SDSM&T.