The BGA awards best presentation prizes at the annual Post-Graduate Research In Progress (PGRIP) Meeting.

2025

The 2025 PGRIP meeting was organised by University of East Anglia.

• Best talk: Kevin Davidson (Birkbeck), “Monitoring water in the shallow subface using high-resolution ambient seismic noise.”
• Best talk runner-up: Jack-Andrew Smith (University of Edinburgh), “Synchronous and asynchronous ambient seismicnoise tomography of the South Island, NewZealand, using a novel broadband array alongthe Alpine Fault.”
• Best Poster: Lara Boudinot (University of Oxford), “Quantifying the Influence of Anthropogenic Seismic Vibrations on Large Mammal Behaviorin Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda.“
• Best poster runner-up: Bethan Scrivens (University of Oxford), “Upper-Mantle Seismic Structure of Zambia: Evidence from P-Wave Travel-Time Tomography.”

2024

The 2024 PGRIP meeting was organised by Imperial College London.

• Best talk: Conor Rutland (University of East Anglia), “Temporal evolution of inter-seismic strain rate at strike-slip and reverse faults from InSAR”
• Best talk runner-up: Banusha Kugabalan (Imperial College London), “Determining palaeo-stress signals using rock magnetism in columnar basalts.”
• Best Poster: Saoirse Coveney (Imperial College London), “The early evolution of a young normal fault in the Aysen Fiord, Chile.“
• Best poster runner-up: James Atkins (University of Cambridge), “Towards a global map of ultra-low velocity zones using S diffracted waves.”

2023

The 2023 PGRIP meeting was organised by the University of Aberdeen and University of Edinburgh.

• Best talk: Himanshu Agrawal (University of Edinburgh), “The effects of surface topography on the earthquake ground motion intensities in inter montane basins.”
  Callum Pearman (University of Cambridge), “Geophysical Expression of the Reykjanes V-Shaped Ridges, North Atlantic Ocean.“
• Best Poster: Carl Martin (University of Cambridge), “The ULVZ zoo: Mapping the CMB with Sdiff.“
• Best poster runner-up: Alexander Rutson (University of Leicester), “Intraplate dynamics on Mongolia: Investigating global versus localised influences of mantle flow on landscape evolution.”
• Best poster runner-up: Abigail Plimmer (Cardiff University), “Assessing the role of oceanic, continental and cratonic lithosphere in mantle circulation.“

2022

The 2022 PGRIP meeting was organised by the University of Cambridge.

• Best talk: Rita Kounoudis (Imperial College London), “Seismic imaging of heterogeneous lithosphere beneath the unusually broad Turkana Depression, Africa“
• Best talk runner up: Stuart Russell (University of Cambridge) “Seismic visibility of melt at the core-mantle boundary from PKKP diffracted waves“
• Best Poster: Philippa Slay (University of Cambridge), “Dynamic topography of the Australian continent and its margins“
• Best poster runner-up: Hazel Knight (University of Birmingham), “Did North Atlantic Igneous Province carbon emissions drive PETM climate change: insights from new geophysical data“

 

2021

The 2021 PGRIP meeting was virtual

• Best talk: Deborah Wehner (University of Cambridge)
• Best talk runner up: Viktoria Trautner (University of Oxford)
• Best talk runner up: Benedict Conway-Jones (University of Cambridge)
• Best Poster: Yuhang Dai (University of Southampton)
• Best poster runner-up: Matthew Likely (University of Durham)
• Best poster runner-up: Kat Dapre (University of Bristol)

 

2019

The 2019 PGRIP meeting was organised by the University of Bristol.

• Best talk: Siobhan Killingbeck (University of Leeds)
• Best talk runner up: Joseph Asplet (University of Bristol)
• Best Poster: Benedict Conway-Jones (University of Cambridge)
• Best poster runner-up: Ana Patricia Santana (University of Cambridge)

 

2018

The 2018 PGRIP meeting was organised by the University of Cardiff.

• Talk Winner: Tom Hudson (University of Cambridge), “Using earthquakes to study basal sliding of glaciers.“
• Talk Runner Up: Robert Allen (Imperial College London), “A new marine magnetic anomaly chart for the Caribbean: Implications for the tectonics of the Antilles island arc-subduction system.“
• Poster Winner: Chantelle Roelofse (Cardiff University), “Structural controls on pockmarks fields in the northern Gulf of Mexico: a case study for hydrocarbon exploration in salt basins.“
• Post Runner Up: Anna Williams (University of Bristol), “Challenges in locating microseismicty using Distributed Acoustic Sensors.“

 

2017

The 2017 PGRIP meeting was organised by the University of Aberdeen.

• Talk winner: Oliver Sanford (Durham University), “Modelling seismic wave propagation and scattering within extrusive basalt sequences.“
• Talk runner-up: Alastair Boyce (Imperial College London), “Insights into the tectonics of the Eastern North American Sheild at the macro-scale: a new absolute P-wave tomographic model for North America“
• Poster winner: Guy Paxman (Durham University), “Lithospheric flexure in East Antarctica: the Origin and Evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial basin.“
• Poster runner-up: Daniel Possee (University of Southampton), “Seismicity and local earthquake tomography from Haiti.“

The 2017 Joint Assembly (BGA-VMSG-TSG) meeting was organised by the University of Liverpool.

• Early Career Prize: Robert Green (University of Cambridge), “Seismic velocity structure of volcanic rift zones in Iceland.“
• Overall Talk winner: Carl McDermott (Imperial College London), “Using SDRs to identify the mode of breakup along South America’s magma-rich margin.“
• BGA Talk winner: Jennifer Jenkins (University of Cambridge), “Searching for structure in the mid-mantle: Observations of converted phases beneath Iceland and Europe.“
• BGA Talk runner-up: Tom Hudson (University of Cambridge), “Exploring deep melt migration before and after an Icelandic eruption.“
• BGA Poster winner: Finn Illsley-Kemp (University of Southampton), “Formation of an oceanic transform fault during continental rifting.“

 

2016

The 2016 PGRIP meeting was organised by the University College, London.

• Talk winner: Adam Robinson (University of Durham), “Construction and Subduction of the Louisville Ridge Seamount Chain – Insights from Wide-Angle Seismic Imaging.“
• Talk runner-up:  Rebecca Coats (University of Liverpool), “Lava dome eruptions: testing the strain rate dependence of porous lava rheology.“
• Poster winner: Jennifer Jenkins (University of Cambridge), “Converted phases from sharp mid-mantle heterogeneity beneath Western Europe.“
• Poster runner-up:  Aude Lavayssiere (University of Southampton), “Imaging lithospheric discontinuities using S to P receiver functions.“

 

2015

The 2015 PGRIP meeting was organised by the University of Southampton.

Many thanks to commercial sponsors: Shell  

• Talk winner: Robert Green (University of Cambridge), “Triggered earthquakes suppressed by an evolving stress shadow from a propagating dyke: Bárðarbunga Volcano, Iceland.“
• Runner-up: Bedanta Goswami (University of Southampton), “Resistivity image beneath an area of active methane seeps in the continental slope of West Svalbard margin.“
• Poster winner: Simon Stephenson (University of Cambridge), “A Cenezoic record of uplift, erosion and dynamic support: examples from Madagascar.“
• Runner-up: Melanie Siegburg (University of Southampton), “Tecono-magmatic interaction at the Boset Volcanic Complex in the main Ethiopian Rift.“

 

2014

The 2014 PGRIP meeting was organised by the University of Liverpool.

Many thanks to commercial sponsors: Badleys, BP and CGG

Talk winner: Tim Hughes (University of Southampton), “Environmental controls on thermal performance of submarine high-voltage cables.“

Runner-up: Laura Petrescu (Imperial College London), “Probabilistic inversion and H-k stacking of receiver functions.“

Poster winner: 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.“