AGU - Geodesy Section - Awards and Honors - Outstanding Student Paper Awards

Meetings	Students
2008 Fall Meeting	Richard Koehler, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA, " The accommodation of distributed crustal strain across the northern basin and range on active faults: A paleoseismic study " Ozgur Kozaci, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, " Constancy of strain release rates along the North Anatolian fault " Karen Simon , University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, " Ocean loading effects on predictions of uplift and gravity changes due to glacial isostatic adjustment in Antarctica "
2008 Joint Assembly	Noel Gourmelen, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA; Fault rate acceleration and low angle normal faulting: The Hunter Mountain fault, California. Kimberly Psencik, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA; Episodic tremor and slip on the Cocos-Caribbean subduction zone as measured by a GPS and seismic network on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica.
2007 Fall Meeting	Ivana Barisin, University of Oxford, U.K.; Deformation measurements for the September 2005 AFAR rifting event from sub-pixel correlation of SPOT images. Reed Burgette, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA; A more accurate vertical velocity fi eld for coastal Oregon reveals variations in extent of locking on the Cascadia subduction zone. James Hollingsworth, Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, U.K.; Active tectonics of western Turkmenistan: Implications for the onset of South Caspian subduction. Diane Rivet, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Interseismic secular deformation in southern California from InSAR-derived maps over the time period between 1992 and 2006.
2007 Joint Assembly	Henry Turner, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA; Forearc sliver translation, a lack of arc-normal strain accumulation, and interplate thrust earthquakes: GPS geodesy in western Nicaragua.
2006 Fall Meeting	Ronni Grapenthin, (ronnihi.is), University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland " Icelandic rhythmics: Annual modulation of land elevation and plate spreading by snow load" Ellen Mallman, (emallmanpangea.stanford.edu), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA " The Role of Shale Compaction due to Hydrocarbon Production on Subsidence in the Louisiana Coastal Zone" Hugo Schotman, (hugodeos.tudelft.nl), SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands " Shallow Low-Viscosity Zones in Flat-3D Finite-Element Models of Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment" Pierre Tinard, (tinardopgc.univ-bpclermont.fr), Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Fd, France " New Insights in the Dynamic of the Volcanic Processes at Piton de la Fournaise Volcano (Reunion Island) Using ENVISAT-ASAR Data"
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Fall 2005	Emily Desmarais (emilydpangea.stanford.edu), Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, USA, "A series of transient slip events on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii" Erwab Mazarico (mazaricomit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, USA, "Measurement of the Martian upper atmospheric density using Mars Odyssey radio tracking data" Juliet Biggs (julietbearth.ox.ac.uk), University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, UK, "Measuring the slip rate on faults with InSAR in difficult interferometric conditions: The Denali Fault (Alaska)"
Spring 2005	Noah Fay (nfayuoregon.edu), University or Oregon, Department of Geological Sciences, USA, "Kinematics and Dynamics of the Southern San Andreas Fault System"
Fall 2004	Adrian Borsa (aborsaucsd.edu), Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, San Diego, US, "Modeling the salar de Uyuni, Bolivia as an equipotential surface of Earth's gravity field" Ryan Gold (goldgeology.ucdavis.edu), Department of Geology, University of California Davis, US, "Strike-slip fault evolution at intermediate (10ka - 1Ma) timescales: An example from the Aksai restraining stepover along the Altyn Tagh fault, NW China" Bridget Smith (brsmithucsd.edu), Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, San Diego, US, "A 3-D semi-analytic viscoelastic model of the San Andreas fault system: A 1000-year perspective of the earthquake cycle"
Spring 2004	Jesse Fisher Lawrence (jfisherlevee.wustl.edu), Washington University, St. Louis, US, "3D Whole-Mantle Velocity and Quality Factor"
Fall 2003	Gina Schmalzle (gschmalzlersmas.miami.edu), University of Miami, US, "Effects of lateral heterogeneity on strain accumulation across the Carrizo Plain segment of the SAF" Yusaku Ohta (ootaeps.nagoya-u.ac.jp), Nagoya University, Japan, "Reexamination of interplate coupling model in the Tokai region based on GPS data" Fayaz Onn (phaestanford.edu), Stanford University, US, "Compensating atmospheric distortions in SAR interferograms using continuous GPS time series of zenith wet delay estimates"

Fall 1996	Michael Poland (mpolandusgs.gov)
Spring 1996	Remko Scharroo (remko.scharroolr.tudelft.nl)
Fall 1995	Jeff Ridgeway Donald Chambers (chamberscsr.utexas.edu)
Spring 1995	John Weber Attila Komjathy
Fall 1994	Bingming Shen-Tu E. Robert Kursinski Eric Canuteson Jishu Deng
Spring 1994	Mara Yale
Fall 1993	Simon Williams Susan Owen

Fall 1990	Andrea Donnellan

Fall 1989	Bryan A. Buffett Karen M. Marks
Spring 1988	Spiros D. Pagiatakis
Fall 1987	Allan Rubin
Spring 1987	Paul Wessel
Fall 1986	John Ries
Spring 1986	Richard J. Evans
Fall 1985	Charles Demeto