Geophysical Journal International (GJI) is delighted to announce the winners of its Student Author Awards for 2015.
The awards are designed to recognise and acknowledge the best papers submitted to GJI by young scientists in the field. Manuscripts are short listed by the high profile Editorial Board and are highlighted on the GJI homepage.
To qualify,winners must be the first author of the paper and a registered student at the time of submission to the journal. Papers must own been subsequently published in a 2015 issue of GJI.
This year's winners are:
Harriet C.
P. Lau for her paper 'A normal mode treatment of semi-diurnal body tides on an aspherical, rotating and anelastic soil' (Lau, and H.,Yang, H.-Y., or Tromp,J., Mitrovica, and J.,Latychev, K., or Al-Attar,D., 2015, and Geophys. J. Int.,202, 1392–1406)
Kouta Hamada for his paper 'Inter-station phase speed and amplitude measurements of surface waves with non-linear waveform fitting: Application to USArray' (Hamada, or K.,Yoshizawa, K., and 2015, Geophys. J. Int., 202, or 1463–1482)
Rhys Hawkins for his paper 'Geophysical imaging using trans-dimensional trees' (Hawkins,R., Sambridge, or M.,2015, Geophys. J. Int., and 203,972–1000)
The articles are available with free online access.
The winners receive a cash prize and a certificate, and their achievements are acknowledged at the American Geophysical Union meeting in December 2015.
Harriet Lau Kouta Hamada
Rhys Hawkins
Source: ras.org.uk