Winners of British Geophysical Association annual "Postgraduate Research in Progress" meeting prizes

2014 (Liverpool)
talk - Tim Hughes, University of Southampton, "Environmental controls on the thermal performance of submarine high-voltage cables"
Runner-up - Laura Petrescu, Imperial College, London, "Probabilistic inversion and H-k stacking of receiver functions"
Poster - Laura Parisi, University of East Anglia, "Waveform modelling of high-frequency body waves of 3-D Earth structure"
Runner-up - Michael Allen, University of Liverpool, "Laboratory permeability and seismic velocity anisotropy measurements across the Alpine Fault, New Zealand"
2013 (Cambridge)
Talk - Ross Parnell-Turner, University of Cambridge, "Time dependent mantle plume behaviour beneath the North Atlantic Ocean"
First Runner-up - David Schlaphorst, University of Bristol, "Seismological insights into the structure of the Lesser Antilles Arc"
Second Runner-up - Zoe Watson, University of Cambridge, "Non-double-couple earthquakes in Krafla caldera, Iceland"
Poster - Karen Lythgoe, University of Cambridge, "Earth's enigmatic inner core"
Runner-up - Grace Cox, University of Leeds, "Forward models of torsional waves: dispersion and geometric effects"

2012 (Leeds)
Talk - Tom Garth, University of Liverpool, "Slab structure associated with Wadati-Benioff zone seismicity"
Poster - Megan Thomas, University of Liverpool, "Middle Eastern archaeomagnetic jerks and their potential link with climate change"

2011 (Oxford)
Talk - Richard Walters, University of Oxford, "Interseismic strain accumulation across the Ashkabad fault (NE Iran) from MERIS-corrected InSAR data"
Poster - Colette Couves, University of Southampton , "Investigating the controls on porosity and permeability development in igneous oil and gas reservoirs"

2010 (Bristol)
Talk - James Verdon, University of Bristol, "Linking microseismic event ovservations with geomechanical models to minimise the risks of storing CO2 in geological formations"
Poster - Frances Beckett, University of Bristol, "Bi-directional flow experiments and implications for degassing processes at Stromboli volcano (Aeolian archipelago)"

2009 (Imperial College, London)
Talk - Richard Walters, University of Oxford, "The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (central Italy): a source mechanism and implications for seismic hazard"
Poster - Victoria Ridley, University of Liverpool, "Jovimagnetic secular variation"

2008 (Durham)
Talk - Othman Al-Harrasi, University of Bristol, "Measuring Anisotropy in Hydracarbon Reservoirs using Passive Seismic"
Poster - Dean J. Wilson, Durham University, "Seismic constraints on the structure of the Cape Verde swell"

2007 (Cardiff)
Talk - Rhodri Davies, Cardiff University, "Adaptive finite element methods in geodynamics; convection dominated mid-ocean ridge and subduction zone simulations"
Talk - Ricardo Ramalho, University of Bristol, "Testing the depleted swell root model for the Cape Verde hotspot swell"
Poster - Chris Mallows, University of Durham, "Deep-towed magnetic studies of amagmatic spreading centres: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 13 degrees N."

2006 (Edinburgh)
Talk - Kirsty Styles, University of Leeds, "Seismic Anisotropy from local earthquakes in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, North Island, New Zealand"
Talk - Rebecca Bell, University of Southampton, "Structural Evolution of the western Gulf of Corinth Rift"
Talk - Max Moorkamp, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, "Joint Inversion of MT and seismic receiver function data using a Genetic Algorithm"
Talk - Mark E. Vardy, University of Southampton, "High-resolution 3D seismic volumes: a case study in Small Object Detection"
Poster - Ceri Davies, University of Liverpool, "A comparative invesitgation of Late Cretaceous basalts from Madagascar. Palaeointensities as determined with the Microwave Technique"
Poster - Caroline Graham, University of Edinburgh, "Source Mechanisms of Acoustic Emissions in Triaxially Loaded Granite"

2005 (U.C. Galway)
Talk - David Cornwell, University of Leicester, "Lithospheric Structure from EAGLE Teleseismic and Gravity studies across the Northern Main Ethiopian Rift"
Poster - ??

2004 (Liverpool)
Talk - Ian Bastow, University of Leeds, "Upper Mantle Seismic Structure of the Northern Ethiopian Rift - a Region of Incipient Continental Breakup"
Poster - Alastair C. Belson, University of Leeds, "Seismic Source Characteristics of Volcanic Low-frequency Earthquakes"

2003 (Leeds)
Talk - David Green, University of Leeds, "Waveform Analysis of Low-frequency earthquakes associated with Volcanic Activity on Montserrat"
Talk - Jennifer Inwood, University of Plymouth, "First Palaeomagnetic results from the Hatay (Kizil Dag) Ophiolite of Turkey and their implication for the Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean Tethys"
Poster - Sylvana Pilidou, University of Cambridge, "Upper Mantle Sv-wave speed heterogeneity beneath the North Atlantic and the surrounding region from Regional Surface-wave Tomography"

2002 (Southampton)
Talk - ??
Poster - Philip M. Benson, University College, London, "Comparative Anisotropy of Sedimentary Rocks"