Graduate Student News

Congcong Yuan publishes paper providing new understanding of the mechanisms of slow earthquakes

February 5, 2024

Graduate student Congcong Yuan publishes paper "Laboratory Hydrofractures as Analogs to Tectonic Tremors" in AGU Advancing Earth and Space Sciences. This interdisciplinary work involves laboratory experiments and seismic observations providing a new understanding of the mechanisms of slow earthquakes

You can read the paper here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023AV001002

 

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JJ Dong receives multiple 2023 AGU awards

September 15, 2023

Recent graduate Junjie Dong won multiple 2023 AGU awards, including the Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award and the Study of Earth's Deep Interior Graduate Research Award. The Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of mineral and rock physics achieved during the honoree's Ph.D. research. The Study of Earth's Deep Interior Graduate Research Award is p...

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Lucas Vargas Zeppetello receives 2023 AGU James R. Holton Award

September 14, 2023

Lucas Vargas Zeppetello was recently awarded the James R. Holton Award by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).  The James R. Holton Award is presented annually and recognizes outstanding scientific research and accomplishments from honorees within three years of receiving their Ph.D. This award serves to acknowledge exceptional contributions at an early stage of the awardee’s career. AGU, the world's largest Earth and space science association,...

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Thomas Lee receives 2023 AGU Scholarship

June 2, 2023

Thomas Lee recently won the 2023 Jermone M. Paros Scholarship in Geophysical Instrumentation. These scholarships were established through the generosity of Jerome M. Paros to support graduate students with a demonstrated interest in geophysical instrumentation and precise field measurements in seismology, atmospheric sciences, or ocean sciences. Three students are selected each year to help build a solid pool of talent working on and interested in...

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Graduate Student Marisa J. Borreggine featured in the Harvard Gazette

April 21, 2023

Vikings occupied Greenland from about 985 to 1450 A.D., farming and building communities before they abruptly abandoned their settlements. Why they disappeared has long been a puzzle, but a new paper from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences determines that one factor — rising sea level — likely played a major role.

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Graduate Student Ju Chulakadabba featured in The Harvard Gazette

April 13, 2023

When Ju Chulakadabba was in elementary school in Thailand, she learned that industrial emissions are one important way that humans are changing the global climate. That’s when she realized that trying to make a difference wouldn’t necessarily be a far-off concern in her case, but a family matter. 

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EPS-ESE Recruitment Event

EPS-ESE Recruitment Event

October 26, 2020

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Resources about internships, undergraduate research, and graduate applications will be shared.

This program is designed for those that hold membership in an underrpresented and/or historically minoritized group in STEM.

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