Christy Caudill Receives Pierazzo International Student Travel Award

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Christy Caudill received the 2016 Pierazzo International Student Travel Award at the American Geophysical Union Fall 2016 Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. 

Caudill, of the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration at the University of Western Ontario, received the award for a non-U.S. based graduate student traveling to a planetary meeting in the U.S. Her research title is “Large Basin Impact Cratering Processes as Understood Through Martian and Terrestrial Impact Studies.” 

PSI Senior Scientist Thomas Prettyman, right, presented Caudill with a certificate and check for $2,000. 

The Pierazzo International Student Travel Award was established by PSI in memory of Senior Scientist Betty Pierazzo to support and encourage graduate students to build international collaborations and relationships in planetary science. 

To contribute to the Betty Pierazzo Memorial fund, please go to https://www.psi.edu/support/pierazzofund