Jacob Richardson was presented a 2014 Pierazzo International Student Travel Award at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria.
The Pierazzo 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.
Richardson, of the University of South Florida, received the award for a United States-based graduate student to travel to a planetary-related meeting outside the United States. His research title is “LiDAR Observations of an Earth Magma Plumbing System as an Analog for Venus and Mars Distributed Volcanism.”
Jakob Deller of the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, and Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, German will receive the award for a non-U.S.-based graduate student traveling to a planetary meeting in the U.S. His research title is “SPH Modeling of Impact Events on Non-Spherical Rubble-Pile Asteroid Simulants” and he will attend the 46th Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Tucson, Ariz. Nov. 9-14, 2014.
Each awardee receives a certificate and check for $2,000 at their respective conference.Above, PSI Senior Scientist Anton Ivanov, left, presents Jacob Richardson with the award, as Michela Barin, a city councilperson representing Noale, Italy, the city where Betty Pierazzo was from, and Betty’s brother Flavio Pierazzo, applaud.