Western Graduate Receives National Awards
Kristin Hill was recently awarded two national awards that will help fund her MS thesis research on gravity changes at Mount Baker.
She received one of the 2005 Jack Kleinman Grants for Volcano Research from the USGS. The program is intended to perpetuate and memorialize the attributes embodied by Jack Kleinman, a USGS employee who died in a kayaking accident in 1994. The research grants are privately endowed and administered by the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington. The U.S. Geological Survey evaluates applications and provides scientific oversight.
She also received the 2005 Parke D. Snavely, Jr., Cascadia Research Award from GSA. The Snavely award "supports graduate student research that is field-oriented and contributes to either the understanding of the geologic processes and history of the Pacific Northwest convergent margin or evaluates its hazards or resource potential."
