2013 Student Presentation Awards

At the 2013 SSA Annual Meeting all attendees were invited to submit nominations for the Student Presentation Awards. Thanks to all participants, including the subcommittee for their evaluations and everyone who completed a nomination form. From among a total of 114 student presentations at given at the meeting in Salt Lake City, the subcommittee chose the following eleven for recognition:

Daniel_BowmanDaniel Bowman
University of North Carolina
The Hilbert-Huang Transform Applied to Seismo-acoustic Signals on Volcanoes

D. C. Bowman, J. M. Lees

Samuel_BydlonSamuel Bydlon
Stanford University
Rupture Dynamics and Ground Motion from Earthquakes in Heterogeneous Media

S. A. Bydlon, J. E. Kozdon, E. M. Dunham

Jamie_FarrellJamie Farrell
University of Utah
Crustal Velocity Structure and Seismicity of the Yellowstone Volcanic System from Automated Waveform Analysis of Body Waves, 1984-2011

J. Farrell, S. Husen, R. B. Smith

Manuel_FlorezManuel Florez
Universidad de los Andes
Precise Earthquake Locations Show Evidence of Internal Structures at Intermediate-depth Earthquake Nests

M. A. Florez, G. A. Prieto

Andrea_GallegosAndrea Gallegos
New Mexico State University
Lg Attenuation in the Central and Eastern United States Revealed by the EarthScope Transportable Array

A. C. Gallegos, N. R. Ranasinghe, A. R. Trujillo, J. F. Ni, E. Sandvol

Afifa_ImtiazA B Afifa Imtiaz
Institut des Sciencec de la Terre (ISTerre)
Magnitude and Distance Dependency of the Ground-Motion Variability from Numerical Simulations and Comparison with Real Data Analysis

A. B. A. Imtiaz, M. Causse, E. Chaljub, F. Cotton

Julian_LozosJulian Lozos
University of California, Riverside
Rupture and Ground Motion Models on the Claremont-Casa Loma Stepover of the San Jacinto Fault, Incorporating Complex Fault Geometry, Stresses, and Velocity Structure

J. C. Lozos, K. B. Olsen, D. D. Oglesby, J. N. Brune

M. Anna Nowicki

Indiana University/USGS


Development of a Globally Applicable Model for Near Real-time Prediction of Seismically Induced Landslides

M. A. Nowicki, D. J. Wald, M. W. Hamburger, M. Hearne, E. M. Thompson

John_RollinsJohn Rollins
California Institute of Technology
Mechanisms of Postseismic Deformation Following the 2010 M=7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake

J. C. R. Rollins, S. D. B. Barbot, J. P. A. Avouac

Sanjay_Singh_BoraSanjay Singh Bora

University of Potsdam


Fourier Spectral- and Duration Models for the Generation of Response Spectra which are Adjustable to Different Source-, Propagation-, and Site Effects

S. Singh Bora, F. Scherbaum, N. Kuehn, P. Stafford

Jing_ZhuJing Zhu

Tufts University


A Geospatial Liquefaction Model for Rapid Response and Loss Estimation

J. Zhu, L. G. Baise, E. M. Thompson, D. J. Wald, K. L. Knudsen