Best Student Presentation Award

G&G Division student members can be considered for a Best Student Presentation award. Winners receive a cash prize.

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Best Student Presentation Awardees

2024 - Oral	Rebekah Kennedy — Montana State University Presentation title: Evidence of latest Archean to Hadean crustal material in the Northern Wyoming Province and the deep-time tectonothermal history of the Bridger Range, Montana
2024 - Oral	Joseph McNease — University of Houston Presentation title: Detecting low-angle faults on seismic migration images using nested residual U-NET
2024 - Poster	Claire Ruggles — University of Wisconsin, Madison Presentation title: Mass flux and magma storage at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field, Chile: Magma reservoir evolution on human timescales
2023 - Oral	Hannah Proffitt — University of Kansas Presentation title: Monitoring Induced Seismicity using Low-Cost Seismometers: A Case Study in Central Kansas
2023 - Poster	Joseph Phillips— Northern Arizona University Presentation title: Spatial Variation in Anisotropic Shear Velocity of Old Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere in the Southwest Pacific
2022 - Oral	Peter Akerele — University of Arkansas Presentation title: Ground Penetrating Radar as an Investigative Tool for Cracking and Deterioration on Bridge Surfaces, Decks, Rebars
2022 - Poster	Saiful Apru — University of Dhaka Presentation title: Crustal Structure and Moho Topographic Variation of Bangladesh using the Joint CCP (Common Conversion Point) Stacking and H-k analysis: An Approach from Receiver Function Technique
2022 - Oral	Molly Gallahue — Northwestern University Presentation title: Why do Earthquake Hazard Maps Predict Higher Shaking than Observed?
2021 - Oral	Donald Wormington — Missouri State University Presentation title: Geophysical investigations in determining the extent of karst features south of Springfield, Missouri
2021 - Poster	Kirsty A. McKenzie — Pennsylvania State University Presentation title: Mid-Miocene to present upper-plate deformation of the southern Cascadia forearc: effects of the superposition of subduction and transform tectonics
2020 - Oral	Jingchuan Wang — University of Alberta Presentation title: Sequential Fault Reactivation and Secondary Triggering in the March 2019 Induced Earthquake Swarm Near Red Creek, Alberta
2020 - Oral	Ryley Hill — San Diego State University Presentation title: Can the Lack of Lake Loading Explain the Earthquake Drought on the Southern San Andreas Fault
2020 - Poster	Carlo Azuara — University of Alberta Presentation title: Seismic Velocity Determination by Using Stratigraphic Emphasis to Predict Pore Pressure Distribution in the Devonian Duvernay Formation in the Fox Creek Area, Alberta, Canada

Notable Student Papers

2024 - Poster	JengHann Chong — University of New Mexico Title: Understanding vertical deformation in the Pacific northwest using viscoelastic models
2024 - Poster	Sydney McGuire — Columbia University Title: Evaluating slip along the Garlock fault zone, eastern California at timescales of 10⁴ to 10⁶ years