Parth Sastry and Debarshi Sarkar recently participated in the 3 MT thesis competition held in Grand Reading Room at UMass Dartmouth. Organized by Office of the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a research communication competition which challenges graduate research students (PhD and Masters by Research) to present a compelling oration on their thesis topic and its significance in just three minutes.  The competition develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of research students’ capacity to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.

Parth talked about his work on simulations of eddies in the eastern tropical Pacific and how they impact oxygen transport. Debarshi talked his research on biases in reanalysis products, their importance and how they affect the summer monsoon over the Indian subcontinent. It was an educational and a challenging experience for them to condense their research into an easily digestible, short, three-minute segment.

Debarshi presenting his poster.

Parth presenting his poster.