Top 5% recognized by the American Geophysical Union.
From the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, the following students received Outstanding Student Presentation Awards. Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student, Ignaciao Sepulveda worked with Profs. Phil Liu, Mirceau Grigoriu and Matt Pritchard to complete his award winning paper, "Tsunami hazard assessments with consideration of uncertain earthquakes characteristics", in the Natural Hazards category.
In the Seismology section, recent EAS alumni, Tim Clements (currently a Ph.D. student at Harvard) won an AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his work, "Observing drought-induced groundwater depletion in California with seismic noise," with co-author Prof. Marine Denolle of Harvard. Clements worked closely with Prof. Katie Keranen in his final year as a Cornell undergraduate.
A Cornell-led team will use a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a “microbe-mineral atlas,” a catalog of microorganisms and how they interact with minerals, key for mining... Read more about Microbe atlas could reveal how to mine critical metals sustainably
Cornell geologists will deploy monitoring equipment at the remote and active Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile, a site that remained dormant for more than 50 years before erupting in 2011. Read more about Geologists to visit, study active Chilean volcano
NASA's Europa Clipper mission blasted off to the moon of Jupiter on Oct. 14. Cornell researchers will help determine if the ocean world could support life. Read more about Scientists supporting mission to assess Europa’s habitability
