AGU's Outstanding Student Paper Awards

The weekly geo-newspaper Eos reports Arizona geoscience students were among those who received Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco last December

Seismology
Christine Gans, University of Arizona, Tucson, Imaging the flat slab beneath the SierrasPampeanas, Argentina, using receiver function analysis: Evidence for overthickened subducted oceanic crust

Tectonophysics
David Pearson, University of Arizona, Tucson, Kinematic history of the retroarc thrust belt in the central Andes of Argentina at 24–25°S: Significant Andean shortening and sporadic foreland-ward deformation propagation

Hydrology
Maite Guariola- Claramonte, University of Arizona, Tucson, Regional vegetation die- off alters hydrological partitioning