VT SuperDARN graduate Evan Thomas wins AGU early-career award
By: miker on: Tue., Aug. 06, 2019 12:13 PM EDT (5038 Reads)
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The American Geophysical Union (AGU) announced the 2019 Section awardees on July 31, 2019. Dr. Evan Thomas has won the Basu United States Early Career Award for Research in Sun-Earth Science from the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section. Evan is a 2016 doctoral graduate from the VT SuperDARN Group (advised by Jo Baker and Mike Ruohoniemi) and a past awardee of a NSF postdoctoral research fellowship (performed at Dartmouth College under Dr. Simon Shepherd). He is now research faculty at Dartmouth College and is very active across the SuperDARN collaboration.
The citation for the award reads: 'For significant work that shows the focus and promise of making outstanding contributions to research in Sun-Earth systems science that further the understanding of both plasma physical processes and their applications for the benefit of society.'
Congratulations, Evan!
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For more information about 2019 AGU Section Awardees and Named Lecturers see the
Eos article at
https://eos.org/agu-news/2019-agu-section-awardees-and-named-lecturers
Citation: Bell, R., and M. A. Holmes (2019), 2019 AGU section awardees and named lecturers, Eos, 100,
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO130047. Published on 31 July 2019.
For more information about the Basu Early Career award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science see
https://honors.agu.org/sfg-award-lecture/basu-united-states-early-career-award-for-research-excellence-in-sun-earth-systems-science/
Funding of this award is made possible by a generous contribution from AGU members Sunanda and Santimay Basu
