Student Presentation Awards

13 May 2026 – SSA announced today the recipients of the 2026 Student Presentation Award, which honors excellent poster or oral presentations at the Annual Meeting, held in Pasadena, California in April. Nominated by meeting attendees, a three-person judging panel selected the 7 award recipients among the eligible pool of student presenters.

2026 Recipients

 

Silvia Beretta
University of Bologna
“A Contribution to the Assessment of DAS Performance With Surface Waves: A Case-study From Northern Italy”

 

 

 

 

Aaradhya Bhandari
Southern Methodist University
“Seismological Overview of the Toppling of Easter Island Moai Statues Using Real and Synthetic Ground Motion Records”

 

 

 

 

Nathan Girmay
Stanford University
“Effects of Source Energy Radiation on the Orientation of Maximum Horizontal Ground Motion Intensity”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linxuan Li
California Institute of Technology
“Ubiquitous Interactions and Subcritical Patches Explain the Irregularity of Repeating Earthquakes”

 

 

 

 

 

Ellie Meyer
Tufts University
“Using “Did You Feel It?” Data to Map Spatially Variable Site Amplification in the Central and Eastern United States”

 

 

 

 

 

Taiga Morioka
University of California, San Diego
“Examining Swarm and Foreshock Behavior in Tiny Earthquakes Resolved by Nodal Arrays around the San Jacinto Fault in Southern California”

 

 

 

 

 

Matt Parker
University of Canterbury
“Can Sackungen in Arthur’s Pass Record Past Large Earthquakes?”