Submitted by Yvonne Gibbs on Thu, 20/06/2019 - 09:35
Congratulations to Jerome Neufeld & Thomasina Ball (cohort 2) who are the 2019 winners of the APS-DFD (American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics) Francois Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics. The award is made in recognition of their paper "Static and dynamic fluid-driven fracturing of adhered elastica", published in 2018 in Phys Rev Fluids:
https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.074101
Congratulations to Ophelia Crawford (cohort 1) on the award of the Keith Runcorn Prize by the Royal Astronomical Society for best PhD thesis in geophysics for 2018. Fred Richards, also from Bullard, was runner up. https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/winners-2018-ras-thesis-prizes
Congratulations to Tom Winder (cohort 3) who won the OSPP Award contest at the EGU General Assembly 2019 in recognition of the work on “The importance of pre-existing structures and stresses to dike-induced earthquakes: The 2014–15 Bárðarbunga–Holuhraun rifting event, Iceland”