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CPS Summer Meeting 2023 Presentation Prize Winners!

6 July 2023

It is our great pleasure to announce the Student and Early-career Presentation Prize winners from the recent CPS Summer Meeting.

Image of a planetary surface in space with CPS logo on yellow background on the right and words The Centre for Planetary Sciences at 果冻影院/Birkbeck Summer Meeting 2023 22 June 2023 in white on yellow background below

We are delighted听to announce the Student and Early-career Presentation Prize winners from the CPS Summer Meeting held on Thursday 22nd June at 果冻影院.听The review听panel were impressed with the very high standard of presentations听and the competition was very close.

Research talks听

Prizes for research talks are awarded in three categories:

Masters students

In joint first prize, a 拢50 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to each of the following:

  • Skye Sands (MSc Planetary Science 2021/22, 果冻影院): Mineral Biosignatures from Biwabik Formation, as an early mars analogue
  • Anna Parsec (MSc Space Sci & Eng. at MSSL): Dioscuri: Mission Concept for Titan Exploration听

A runner-up prize of a 拢25 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

  • Sidonie Coker (Natural Sci. MSci, 果冻影院): An integrated view of the Martian carbon cycle

PhD researchers听

In joint first prize, a 拢50听Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to each of the following:

  • Catherine Regan (MSSL): Effects of the 2007 Martian global dust storm on boundary positions in the induced magnetosphere
  • Priya Patel (MSSL): Water-ice cloud observations at Jezero Crater by the Perseverance Rover

听A runner-up prize of a 拢25 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

  • Luke Keyte (果冻影院 P&A): Azimuthal C/O variations in a planet-forming disk

Early-career researchers

A first prize of a 拢50 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

  • Dr Emily Ingman (MSSL): Surface science investigations of complex organic molecules under astrophysically relevant conditions

听A runner-up prize of a 拢25 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

  • Dr Antonio Manj贸n-Cabeza C贸rdoba (果冻影院 ES): Grain size evolution and mantle convection: Earth vs. Venus

听An honourable mention and prize of a 拢15 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

  • Dr Zixiao Guo (果冻影院 ES): Evidence for primitive sedimentary organic matter in graphite from the Eoarchean Saglek banded iron formation听

Research posters

A first prize听of听a 拢50 Love2Shop Voucher听is awarded to:

  • Jack Hill (MSc Planetary Science): Cosmic-ray Imaging for Martian Subsurface Exploration

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Many congratulations to all the winners and for the excellent standard of work and presentations!听 Thanks also to the presentation prize panel: Karen Anne Devoil, Ian Crawford, Andrew Rushby and Andrew Coates.

There were a total of 13 research presentations on the day听with听about 30 attendees, and it was great to see colleagues from all four CPS departments: 果冻影院 Physics and Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Space and Climate Physics (a.k.a. MSSL; the Mullard Space Science Laboratory) and Birkbeck Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Many thanks again to all those who presented and attended for making the CPS Summer Meeting听such a successful and enjoyable day!听

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