Award at the AGU Fall Meeting 2022
The doctoral student Sofia Michail was awarded the Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022, December 12-16 in Chicago, IL.
Their research is entitled “Laboratory Observations Linking Fault Surface Characteristics to the Onset and Evolution of Frictional Sliding and Off-fault Damage”. The external pageOSPA is awarded only for the upper 2-5% presenters and their oral presentation was recognised for their observations of non uniform pre-slip with DSS measurements in experiments conducted in the LabQuake rock deformation apparatus .
Their research is quite important to further understand earthquake nucleation.
*Michail, S.1, Selvadurai, P. A.1, Cebry, S.B.L.2, Salazar Vásquez, A.1,3, Rast, M.4, Bianchi, P.1, Madonna, C.4, Wiemer, S.1
1Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, NY, USA
3University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, Rapperswil, Switzerland
4Geological Institute, Department of Earth Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland