Advancing earthquake science worldwide
Five SSA student members have received Global Travel Grants to attend workshops or small meetings around the world. Farnaz Kamranzad (University of Tehran) will use the grant to attend the 11th International Workshop on Statistical Seismology in Hakone, Japan. Angela G. Marusiak (University of Maryland, College Park) will be traveling … Continue Reading »
Writing a research paper can be hard. Publishing your paper can be even harder. The “Getting Published – Writing a Good Scientific Paper” workshop, held Tuesday, 23 April at the 2019 SSA Annual Meeting, will give participants the tools they need to organize, write and publish their papers with confidence. … Continue Reading »
Attendees at the 2019 SSA Annual Meeting have an opportunity to learn a better way to access, analyze and interpret geodetic data at the “Measuring Fault Parameters and Slip from Geodetic Imaging Data using GeoGateway Online Tools” workshop, held Tuesday, 23 April from 1–5 p.m. GeoGateway – a system of … Continue Reading »
SSA announced 21 student and international members will receive travel grants to attend the Annual Meeting in Seattle, to be held 23–26 April 2019. These travel grants are made possible by member contributions to the Kanamori Fund, the General Fund and the Student Travel Fund. Grant recipients receive complimentary conference registration and a cash stipend for transportation, food and lodging. The 21 recipients of … Continue Reading »
At first glance, an induced seismicity workshop might seem like an odd destination for Rachel Hatch, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her interest in earthquakes started early, but it mostly revolved around seismic events with natural causes. She was born in San Francisco a month after … Continue Reading »
Heather McFarlin’s interest in volcanoes can be traced back to her father, who worked in hard rock drilling and loved science. This early exposure to geoscience followed her to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she majored in Geography. “One of the very first homework assignments I had was to look … Continue Reading »