AGU announced the names of outstanding student papers from last December's Fall Meeting, and we have one from each of the 3 state universities:
Seismology
Ryan C. Porter, University of Arizona, Tucson, Crustal anisotropy in southern California: Evidence for a fossilized detachment?
Tectonophysics
Alicia Cruz-Uribe, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ages of Sevier thrusting from
dating of metamorphic garnet using the Lu-Hf method.
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
Chunpeng Zhao, Arizona State University, Tempe, Investigating the edges of the large low
shear velocity province in the lowermost mantle beneath the Pacific Ocean.