
Virtual Poster Showcase: Past Winners
Previous showcases
Virtual Poster Showcase (VPS) is a proud supporter of a diverse and inclusive talent pool from which to draw participants. We have past student participants from across the United States and around the world.
VPS has been running at least two showcases per year since 2015. Each year, the winners have demonstrated exemplary research presentation skills as determined by peers and expert judges well versed in science communication.
We encourage you to look through our past winners’ work.
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Accepted VPS abstracts are housed in the AGU abstract database. We encourage you to peruse the database for examples in writing a concise and effective AGU abstract.
VPS has also been featured in Eos, read the articles below for more information on the program.
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Students Share Their Research at Virtual Poster Showcases – Read this Eos article on the 2016 Virtual Poster Showcase winners and discover participant feedback.
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Students Worldwide Share Research in Virtual Poster Showcases – Read this Eos article recognizing the 2015 Virtual Poster Showcase winners.
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Virtual Poster Showcase at 2014 AGU Fall Meeting – Read this Eos article on the 2014 Virtual Poster Showcase winners.

Past showcase winners
Name |
Institution |
Place |
Showcase |
Research |
Rebecca deGraffenried |
University of Hawaii at Manoa |
First Place |
Fall 2019 Graduate Showcase |
“Ground-truthing lava flow propagation models with examples from the 2018 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, HI.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Anitha Ravishankar |
Jagiellonian University, Poland |
Second Place |
Fall 2019 Graduate Showcase |
“Beauty and(or) a Beast: Prediction of Arrival time of Coronal Mass Ejections.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Lara Hughes-Allen |
Université‚ Paris-Sud, France |
Third Place |
Fall 2019 Graduate Showcase |
“Initial analysis of the greenhouse gas contribution potential of lakes in Central Yakutia (eastern Siberia).” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Victor Font Bartumeus |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
First Place |
Fall 2019 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Life Cycle Assessment of Earthen Construction Materials.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Nikhil Chari |
University of California Berkeley |
Second Place |
Fall 2019 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Temperature dependency of anaerobic microbial activities in a tropical vs. temperate soil.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Simon Lin |
University of Waterloo, Canada |
Third Place |
Fall 2019 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Water Quality Responses of Wildfire-Affected Forest Catchments.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Monica Christopher |
Chief Ivan Blunka School, New Stuyahok, Alaska |
Honorable Mention (High School Participant) |
Fall 2019 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Swimmers Itch (Avian Schistosomes): Expanded Range to Lake Aleknagik, Alaska.” Poster (PDF) | Video coming soon |
Synclaire Truesdale |
Texas A&M University |
First Place |
Spring 2019 Graduate Showcase |
“The Evolution of Methods and Understanding of Upper Ocean Responses to Hurricanes.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Xiao Ge |
Texas A&M University |
Second Place |
Spring 2019 Graduate Showcase |
“Impacts of the Loop Current on the Circulation System in the Gulf of Mexico.” Poster (PDF) |
Michael Windisch |
ETH Zurich |
Third Place |
Spring 2019 Graduate Showcase |
“Locating the most suitable reforestation sites for climate change mitigation efforts.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Cara Baez |
Saint Louis University |
First Place |
Spring 2019 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Aftershock Sequences of Intermediate-depth Earthquakes Beneath Japan.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Ariana David |
Texas A&M University |
Second Place |
Spring 2019 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Nearshore sediment transport mechanisms, Bonaire, Southern Caribbean.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Miguel Manning |
Texas A&M University |
Third Place |
Spring 2019 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Seismic Refraction Study of Carbonate Platform Structure, Bonaire, South Caribbean.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Vince Tran |
Upper Darby High School |
Honorable Mention |
Spring 2019 High School Showcase |
“Using Onset Diameter to Predict Surface Composition of Charon.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Laura Vuorinen |
University of Turku, Finland |
First Place |
Fall 2018 Graduate Showcase |
“High-speed jets impinging on the Earth’s magnetosphere: A statistical study on when and where they occur.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Jacob Kegerreis |
Durham University, United Kingdom |
Second Place |
Fall 2018 Graduate Showcase |
“How Uranus Fell Over: Giant Impact Simulations at High Resolution.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Marlene Vargas-Sánchez |
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Third Place |
Fall 2018 Graduate Showcase |
“3-D Rockfall Simulation Model using Terrestrial LiDAR in the Active Pajacuaran Fault, Mexico.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Prudence Crawmer |
Pikes Peak Community College |
First Place |
Fall 2018 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Using CrowdMag to Catalog Magnetic Anomalies from Urban Infrastructure and Geological Features.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Cynthia Tong |
Southern California Earthquake Center |
Second Place |
Fall 2018 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Predictive Skill: A Study of RSQSim and UCERF3 Using the Bayesian Inference.” Poster (PDF) |
Zenja Seitzinger |
SUNY Geneseo |
Third Place |
Fall 2018 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Geophysical Analysis of the Three Sisters Outcrop Located in El Paso, Texas.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Ameya Naik |
Mira Loma High School |
Honorable Mention |
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“The Effect of Ground Terrain on Sacramento Valley Supercells.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Nick Richmond |
University of Maine |
First Place |
Spring 2018 Graduate Showcase |
“3D Bedrock Channel Evolution with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Coupled to a Finite Element Earth.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Veronica Ruiz-Xomchuk |
Texas A&M University |
Second Place |
Spring 2018 Graduate Showcase |
“Tracing Variability in the Budget Balance of Bottom Water Dissolved Oxygen In the Texas-Louisiana Shelf.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Daniel Beverly |
University of Wyoming |
Third Place |
Spring 2018 Graduate Showcase |
“Blame it on the Moon: How Vegetation Responded to the 2017 Solar Eclipse.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Sarah Hall |
Texas A&M University |
Honorable Mention |
Spring 2018 Graduate Showcase |
“Analysis of Symbiodinium Adaptations Within Coral in Relation to Earth’s Increasing Ocean Temperatures. Poster (PDF) | Video |
Andy Kasun |
Northland College |
First Place |
Spring 2018 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Measuring Geomorphological Changes from Recent Flood Events in North Fish Creek, Wisconsin.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Zane Grissett |
University of Rhode Island |
Second Place |
Spring 2018 Undergraduate Showcase |
“An ~1000 year Sedimentary Record of Past High-Energy Wave Events From Conanicut Island, Rhode Island, USA.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Cora Watts |
University of British Columbia |
Third Place |
Spring 2018 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Rotavation of Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) and its Impact on Internal Phosphorus Loading in Wood Lake, BC.” Poster (PDF) |
Marisa Ulman |
Northland College |
Honorable Mention |
Spring 2018 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Quantifying the Distribution of Phosphorus Fractions in Sediment of Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Liam Nolan |
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
First Place |
Spring 2018 High School Showcase |
“A Statistical Tool for Black Hole Location.” |
Zulekha Tasneem |
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
Second Place |
Spring 2018 High School Showcase |
“The Effect of Heavy Metals on Cephae cephaeand Chrysaora chesapeakei Polyps Metabolic Rates.” |
Sean Clancy |
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
Third Place |
Spring 2018 High School Showcase |
“The Effect of Different Shoreline Designs on Beach Erosion and Flooding.” |
Rachel Ma |
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
Honorable Mention |
Spring 2018 High School Showcase |
“Refining Models of Atmospheric Diatomic Oxygen Using Stellar Occultation.” |
Ruadhan Magnee |
University of Queensland, Australia |
First Place |
Fall 2017 Graduate Showcase |
“Magma dynamics recorded in clinopyroxene megacrysts: Investigating the destructive 1669 eruption of Mount Etna.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Elena Hartner |
Bayreuth University, Germany |
Second Place |
Fall 2017 Graduate Showcase |
“Aerosol Removal Efficiency of Moss: Influence of Relative Humidity and Aerosol Size in an Experimental Chamber.” Poster (PDF) |
Neil Page |
University of Wollongong, Australia |
Third Place |
Fall 2017 Graduate Showcase |
“Using observations and modelling to quantify mercury biogeochemical cycling in the Australian context.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Caitlin Hoeber |
San Jose State University |
First Place |
Fall 2017 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Spatial and temporal effects on diversity of Monterey Bay’s microbiome.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Siuling Pau |
College of San Mateo, California |
Second Place |
Fall 2017 Undergraduate Showcase |
“The MegaMovie Project: Optimization of an Affordable, Automatic Photo Documentation System.” Poster (PDF) |
Aizah Khurram |
University of California-Berkeley |
Third Place |
Fall 2017 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Effects of soil texture and flow rate on leaching of arsenic from historically contaminated soils.” Poster (PDF) |
Babak Jalazadeh Fard |
Northeastern University |
First Place |
Spring 2017 Graduate Showcase |
“Effective Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Public Health Impacts of Heatwaves for Brookline, MA.” Poster (PDF) |
Maureen Haley |
Miami University |
Second Place |
Spring 2017 Graduate Showcase |
“Constructing Continental Crust: Tracking Petrogenesis in Granitic Batholiths of the Oslo Rift, Norway.” |
Kevin Clay |
North Carolina State University |
Third Place |
Spring 2017 Graduate Showcase |
“Temporal Variation in Groundwater and VOC flux through a Sandy Streambed.” Poster (PDF) |
Jacob Smith |
Clemson University |
First Place |
Spring 2017 Undergraduate Showcase |
“The Effect of Atmospheric CO2 on the Chemical Weathering of Silicate Minerals as Measured by Cation Flux in the Vadose Zone.” Poster (PDF) |
Jordan Skipwith |
Texas A&M University |
Second Place |
Spring 2017 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Geophysical Analysis of Anomalous Extrusive Volcanism In South Atlantic Oceanic Crust.” |
Collin Brandl |
Texas A&M University |
Third Place |
Spring 2017 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Constraining Regional Stress and Deformation around Bonaire and the Bonaire Basin: A Seismic Reflection Study.” Poster (PDF) |
Hannah Kim |
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
First Place |
Spring 2017 High School Showcase |
“The Effect of Disease Resistance on the Bacterial Community of the Fecal Microbiome of Crassostrea virginica.” |
Emma Glass |
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
Second Place |
Spring 2017 High School Showcase |
“The Effect of Decreased Salinity on the Filtration of Crassostrea virginica.” |
Christopher DeMott |
Upper Darby High School |
Third Place |
Spring 2017 High School Showcase |
“The Effect of Lava Flow Velocity on Lava Channel Sinuosity in the Olympus Mons Region.” |
Leo Lemordant |
Columbia University |
First Place |
Fall 2016 Graduate Showcase |
“Modification of land-atmosphere interactions by CO2 effects: implications for summer dryness and heatwave amplitude.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Amanda Gerotto |
Federal University of Paraná |
Second Place |
Fall 2016 Graduate Showcase |
The South China Sea mixed layer depth changes in response to the East Asian Monsoon since the Last Glacial Maximum: A planktonic foraminiferabased reconstruction.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Samuele Papeschi |
University of Pisa |
Third Place |
Fall 2016 Graduate Showcase |
“Ductile to Brittle Shear Localization in the Upper Crust During Thermal Anomaly: the Calamita Complex (Elba Island, Italy).” Poster (PDF) |Video |
Stephanie Schneider |
University of Alberta |
First Place |
Fall 2016 Undergraduate Showcase |
“The Photoreactivity of Atmoshperic Dust: Quantifying Hydroxyl Radical Production Using Molecular Probes.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Rushana Karimova |
Jacobs University Bremen |
Second Place |
Fall 2016 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Characterization of surface roughness of ASGUAD Rover test terrains and correlation with mobility on the Vulcano Island planetary analogue ROBEX site (Italy).” Video |
Kimberly Diep |
Western Washington University |
Third Place |
Fall 2016 Undergraduate Showcase |
“How do Temperature and CO2 affect the anemone Anthopleura elegantissima and its green symbiont Elliptochloris marina?” Video |
Trista McKenzie |
University of Hawai’I at Manoa |
First Place |
Spring 2016 Multi-society Undergraduate Showcase |
“Quantifying Atmospheric Fallout of Fukushima-derived Radioactive Isotopes in the Hawaiian Islands.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Stephanie Gardiner |
Westminster College |
Second Place |
Spring 2016 Multi-society Undergraduate Showcase |
“New 40Ar/39Ar sanidine dates for the Green Canyon Flow, Yellowstone Volcanic Field, and implications for a revised volcanic stratigraphy.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Timothy Chui |
University of British Columbia |
Third Place |
Spring 2016 Multi-society Undergraduate Showcase |
“On the Use of Multiple Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization Schemes for Forecasting Temperature and Precipitation in Complex Terrain.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Elliot Vaughan |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
First Place |
Fall 2015 Graduate Showcase |
“The influence of land use and soil order on soil carbon storage in Puerto Rico.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Graeme MacGilchrist |
University of Oxford |
Second Place |
Fall 2015 Graduate Showcase |
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Yu-Chen Ling |
University of Melbourne |
Third Place |
Fall 2015 Graduate Showcase |
“Microbial Distribution and Activity in a Coastal Acid Sulfate Soil System.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Yuxi Suo |
University of California Los Angeles |
First Place |
Fall 2015 Undergraduate Showcase |
“An Open Source, Cross-Platform Tool for Implementing River Discharge Algorithms for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Satellite Mission.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Aldwin Vazquez |
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez |
Second Place |
Fall 2015 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Hunting for Ultra-Low Velocity Zones using SKS and SKKS Differential travel time residual.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Ariel Pezner |
University of California Los Angeles |
Third Place |
Fall 2015 Undergraduate Showcase |
“Drought Influence on Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Evergreen and Drought Deciduous Plant Species of Southern California.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Kaitlin Frei |
University of Notre Dame |
First Place |
Fall 2015 Multi-society Undergraduate Showcase |
“You are what you dine from your fins to your spines: Pterois volitans dietary habits.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Hitomi Okada |
Colorado State University |
Second Place |
Fall 2015 Multi-society Undergraduate Showcase |
“Using Photosynthetically Active Radiation as a Proxy to Estimate the Impact of NEON’s Tower Infrastructure on Microclimate Measurements.” Poster (PDF) | Video |
Emma Scott |
North Carolina State University |
Third Place |
Fall 2015 Multi-society Undergraduate Showcase |
“Freshly Falling Snow: Identifying New Snowflake Geometries from Photographs.” Poster (PDF) | Video |