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PhD candidate Lauren Harrison received an Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA) at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Her talk entitled the "The Hawaiian mantle plume from toe to head along the Northwest Hawaiian Ridge" qualified for the prestigious award, typically given to only the top 5% of student poster and oral presentations. Congratulations Lauren!

Congratulations to Ivan Ma (GeoEng),Daniel Wheeler (GeoEng), Peter Li (Civil) and Owen Liu (Mechanical) for their victory at the 2016 Western Engineering Competition. The students placed 1st of 12 engineering teams in the Consulting Engineering division of the competition held on January 15th. Their presentation and technical report detailing a 100% renewable energy powered resort in Kelowna, BC won over the engineering consultants and Kelowna municipal officials on the panel of judges. Best of luck as they move onto the national Canadian Engineering Competition in early March hosted by McGill University!

Garry Clarke's research on Canada's disappearing glaciers is featured in the CBC's 'top science stories of 2015'. For details see the following web pages for the research article and the original CBC interview: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/the-top-science-stories-of-2015-bob-m…, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-april-11-2015-1.302797…

Raymond is being recognised for the outstanding work he did helping the Department design and move into the Earth Sciences Building which serves as a research and teaching hub for EOAS as well as other science units within the Faculty. Congratulations Raymond --and thanks!

Congratulations to Dominque who has been elected to the Board of the Geochemical Society. As one of 6 Directors, Dominque will be responsible for helping to run the world's premier organisation for the promotion of geochemistry, includinginvolvement with the Goldschmidt series of conferences. http://www.geochemsoc.org/

In recent weeks, Oldrich Hungr has been recognized multiple times for his contributions to research on landslides.

1) The International Consortium on Landslides based in Kyoto has awarded him the Varnes Medal,the Consortium's highest award. See http://icl.iplhq.org/category/iplhq/award-and-honors/varnes-medal/

2) He has been selected as the Heim Lecturer to present a keynote address at the 12th International Symposium on Landslides, to be held in Naples next June. See http://www.isl2016.it/index.php?option=com_contentview=categorylayout=b…

3) He is to receive the 2015 Best Paper awardfor his contribution to the journal 'Landslides' (Springer).

Congratulations Oldrich on this impressive suite of achievements.