Solid Earth Students

Solid Earth Best Student Awards

This award was started in 2010, and is based on student presentations given at the annual meeting. No extended abstract is required. It consists of a $750 prize and a commemorative plaque.

The winner for 2022 is Michael King from the University of Newfoundland for "Reconstructing the southern North Atlantic Ocean back through time using deformable plate tectonic models", presented at the 2022 joint (virtual) CMOS-CGU-ESC conference. Congratulations Michael!

 

Past winners

Year	Name	Affiliation
2022	Michael King	University of Newfoundland
2021	Erkan Gün	University of Toronto
2019	Clément Estève	University of Ottawa
2018	Xiaowen Liu	University of Alberta
2017	Jesse Hutchinson	University of Victoria
2016	Andrew Gagnon-Nandram	Queen's University
2015	Joshua Guerrero	University of Toronto Scarborough
2014	Ruijia (Jairy) Wang	University of Alberta
2013	Amin Baharvand Ahmadi	University of Saskatchewan
2012	Robert Gray	University of Toronto
2011	Agnieszka Pawlak	University of Calgary
2010	Catherine Alexandrakis	University of Calgary

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The CGU has several student awards for which Solid Earth student members are eligible. See the Awards page for details

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Student Conferences

The CGU-SES offers sponsorship support of up to $250 to regional Canadian graduate student scientific meetings with geophysical content. Requests should be sent by meeting organizers to the Solid Earth Secretary (Claire Currie) and these will be assessed by the criteria of geophysical content and the possibility of generating matching funds for the meeting from other sources.

Past sponsored conferences:

Year	Conference	Location	Date
2015	Advances in Earth Sciences Research Conference (AESRC)	Queen’s University	27-29 March 2015

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