[Source: American Mathematical Society

Daniel Rothman, a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute MIT team, received the 2016 Levi L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his article “Earth’s Carbon Cycle: A Mathematical Perspective” which appeared in the Bulletin of the AMS.

His paper explores the underlying mathematical structure of the carbon cycle and encourages mathematicians to see their role along with scientists in addressing climate and environmental changes. Rothman is a geophysicist, professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT and co-director of MIT’s Lorenz Center. The press release for the award can be found at the American Mathematical Society website.

[Source: NASA

Jason Dworkin, a member of the NAI team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, received the 2015 Maryland Chemist Award for his achievements in astrochemistry, with research focused on identifying organic compounds in meteorites, comets and asteroids, particularly those related to astrobiology. His team specializes in techniques that allow them to chemically analyze and categorize organic compounds from very small samples.

Dworkin is chief of the Astrochemistry Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and also serves as project scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The full press release for his award can be found at the NASA website.