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Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research
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2023 RECIPIENT
Molly Margaret Gallahue
Molly Gallahue ranks as an outstanding young scientist whose graduate research at Northwestern University yielded surprising new results about a fundamental challenge: to better forecast shaking from future earthquakes. This holds major implications ...
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2022 RECIPIENT
Avantika Gori
Avantika Gori received a B.Sc. in 2016 and an M.Sc. in 2018, both in civil and environmental engineering, from Rice University. She is currently working toward a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at Princeton University, where her research...
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2021 RECIPIENT
Leah Salditch
2020 RECIPIENT
Elise Monsieurs
2019 RECIPIENT
Sanne Muis
Sanne Muis received a B.Sc. in Earth sciences and economics in 2009, an M.Sc. in hydrology in 2013, and a Ph.D. in flood risk in 2018, all at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her graduate research, advised by Jeroen Aerts and Philip Ward, investigated e...
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2018 RECIPIENT
Edward Max Brooks
Edward received his B.S. in physics from Johns Hopkins University in 2013 and an M.S. in statistics from Northwestern University in 2017. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Earth and planetary science under the supervision of Seth Stein at Nor...
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2017 RECIPIENT
Lauren N Schaefer
Lauren N. Schaefer received a B.S. in environmental geoscience from DePauw University in 2009, an M.S. in geology from Michigan Technological University in 2012, and a Ph.D. in engineering geology from Michigan Technological University in 2016. Her g...
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2016 RECIPIENT
Társilo Girona
Társilo Girona received undergraduate training from the University of Valencia and the Complutense University of Madrid, the latter being from where he received a bachelor’s degree in physics (2009) and a master’s degree in geophys...
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