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Geophysical Journal International has announced its Student Author Award winners for 2015.

Harriet C P Lau, Kouta Hamada and Rhys Hawkins each received a certificate and a cash prize, after their papers were assessed as the best published in GJI in 2015 by a student author. Find out more at the RAS website (www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2761-gji-2015-student-author-award-winners). The winning papers – for which the students must have been first author –  are available to read for free online:

A normal mode treatment of semi-diurnal body tides on an aspherical, rotating and anelastic Earth 

Harriet C.P. Lau, Hsin-Ying Yang, Jeroen Tromp, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Konstantin Latychev and David Al-Attar (2015) 202 (2): 1392-1406. 

Interstation phase speed and amplitude measurements of surface waves with nonlinear waveform fitting: application to USArray 

K. Hamada and K. Yoshizawa (2015) 202 (3): 1463-1482.

Geophysical imaging using trans-dimensional trees 

Rhys Hawkins and Malcolm Sambridge (2015) 203 (2): 972-1000.