Issue 12: 5 JUNE 2019

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HAVE A TRAVEL WISH? GET IT GRANTED!

ANNUAL MEETING TWEETS

DID YOU KNOW?

Student Travel Grants: Apply Soon!

It’s time to get cracking on the next round of SSA travel grant applications. Read on for details about two exciting opportunities to network and share your research with colleagues near and far while advancing the field of seismology.

Geosciences Congressional Visits Day (aka Geo-CVD) Travel Grant

Application Deadline: 11 July 2019

Travel date/destination: Geo-CVD 2019: 10-11 September 2019 in Washington, D.C.

What happens: An intensive workshop on day one prepares student participants for their work the next day: carrying messages directly to Members of U.S. Congress and their staff on Capitol Hill.

Why attend this annual gathering: Federal decision makers need to hear from geoscientists.

Take it from: 2018 Geo-CVD grant recipient Sutton Chiorini (Miami University), who learned, “I can make a difference in politics and how the country is run.”

Results: The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program was reauthorized in late 2018 after Chiorini and other SSA members collaborated with other scientific organizations to make our voices heard.

Apply today: Review a sample application and complete yours now by visiting SSA's Geo-CVD webpage.

Global Travel Grant

Applications Acccepted Next: 1- 31 July 2019

For student travel taking place: 1 November 2019 - 30 April 2020

Destinations: These grants help students travel to small meetings/workshops (1,000 or fewer attendees) in the U.S. or meetings of any size abroad that directly relate to their study of earthquake science or seismology. (Grants are not for travel to the SSA Annual Meeting or for travel to AGU, GSA and SEG, which have more than 1,000 attendees.) Previous recipients have traveled to conferences in the U.S., Italy, Japan, Israel and Canada, where they've shared their work, learned from others and established new contacts.

Why: 2018 SSA Global Travel Grant recipient Heather McFarlin (University of South Florida) put it best: “Most [students] live on or near the poverty line ... Going to meetings and conferences takes a huge toll on our finances, but we must attend to network and to get our names out to create the best chances of finding a job once we graduate.”

Review a sample application and apply next month by visiting SSA's Global Travel Grant webpage.

Tweets from the 2019 Annual Meeting

A little bird told us that you enjoyed the 2019 Annual Meeting in Seattle...

Niloufar Abolfathian @NiloufarAbolfat on Bruce Banerdt's Opening Keynote on the NASA InSight Mission: ... a seismometer has been deployed on a planet 55 Million km away, all automated and now for the first time in history scientists identified Marsquake! We have come a loooong way!

Dr. Sara McBride @DisastrousComms: You might be cool, but you'll never be 'Alicia Hotovec-Ellis rocking lava-colored hair talking about volcanic earthquakes on Kilauea' cool.

Amanda @ace138: Excited to see @SeismoSue award @DrLucyJones with the Frank Press Public Service Award at #SSA2019. These two inspired me to go into seismology as a child growing up being shaken around in California.

...Happy to have seen great science, hug friends and make new ones.

We can't wait to meet again! Mark your calendar for the 2020 Annual Meeting (27-30 April 2020 in Albuquerque, New Mexico).

Did You Know?

In 1912 Lou Henry Hoover, who went on to become the First Lady of the United States, was the first woman to publish a paper in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

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Send it to info@seismosoc.org with Seismo-gram in the subject line, and we may share it in a future issue.

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