19 December 2025—A record number of SSA members received travel grants to attend the 2026 Annual Meeting, including the first to receive a new Society grant for U.S.-based regular members.
These grants were made possible through generous contributions to the General Fund, Annual Meeting Travel Fund and Kanamori Fund.
Student Recipients:
- Bartu Bilgen, Middle East Technical University
- Yuly Rave Bonilla, University of South Florida
- Hilary Chang, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- Sifang Chen, University of Chicago
- Julia Grossman, University of Washington
- Yuriko Iwasaki, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Albert Kabanda, Northwestern University
- Carlos Montalvo Lara, Victoria University of Wellington
- David Naranjo, Delft University of Technology
- Batul Bilal Peralta Nemr, The Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTerre)
- Victor Timilehin Olawoyin, Boston College
- Grant Spraker, University of Utah
- Kathrine Udell-Lopez, University of Maryland
- Guglielmo Vullo, University of Pisa
- Zoë Zawol, National Park Service, Scientists-in-Parks; University of California, Berkeley
Early-career Recipients:
- Valeria Cortés Rivas, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
- Jiaxuan Li, University of Houston
- Irene Liou, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
- Boris Rösler, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE)
- Israporn Sethanant, University of Melbourne
International Recipients:
- Raul Castro, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE)
- Constantinos Charalambous, Imperial College London
- John Londono, Colombia Geological Survey
- Thanh-Son Pham, Australian National University
European Seismological Commission/SSA Recipients:
- Silvia Beretta, University of Bologna
- Pavlos Bonatis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Chuanbin Zhu, Northumbria University
Regular Domestic Recipients:
- Xiaotao Yang, Purdue University
- Asiye Aziz Zanjani, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Where will an SSA grant take you? Be sure to apply to our February’s grant programs:
- Offer early-career and student members financial support to attend and present their research at scientific conferences and workshops anywhere in the world.
Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant
- Honor the late seismologist Paul Andrew Spudich by supporting travel for SSA student and early-career members who have a research focus on earthquake source physics or ground motion prediction.
- Help members at all career stages create small seismology-advancing conferences, workshops and events.
Questions? Email ssagrants@seismosoc.org.