CPS Summer Meeting 2023 Presentation Prize Winners!

We are delighted to announce the Student and Early-career Presentation Prize winners from the CPS Summer Meeting held on Thursday 22nd June at UCL. The review panel were impressed with the very high standard of presentations and the competition was very close.

Research talks 

Prizes for research talks are awarded in three categories:

Masters students

In joint first prize, a £50 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to each of the following:

• Skye Sands (MSc Planetary Science 2021/22, UCL): Mineral Biosignatures from Biwabik Formation, as an early mars analogue
• Anna Parsec (MSc Space Sci & Eng. at MSSL): Dioscuri: Mission Concept for Titan Exploration 

A runner-up prize of a £25 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Sidonie Coker (Natural Sci. MSci, UCL): An integrated view of the Martian carbon cycle

PhD researchers 

In joint first prize, a £50 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to each of the following:

• Catherine Regan (MSSL): Effects of the 2007 Martian global dust storm on boundary positions in the induced magnetosphere
• Priya Patel (MSSL): Water-ice cloud observations at Jezero Crater by the Perseverance Rover

 A runner-up prize of a £25 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Luke Keyte (UCL P&A): Azimuthal C/O variations in a planet-forming disk

Early-career researchers

A first prize of a £50 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Dr Emily Ingman (MSSL): Surface science investigations of complex organic molecules under astrophysically relevant conditions

 A runner-up prize of a £25 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Dr Antonio Manjón-Cabeza Córdoba (UCL ES): Grain size evolution and mantle convection: Earth vs. Venus

 An honourable mention and prize of a £15 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Dr Zixiao Guo (UCL ES): Evidence for primitive sedimentary organic matter in graphite from the Eoarchean Saglek banded iron formation 

Research posters

A first prize of a £50 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Jack Hill (MSc Planetary Science): Cosmic-ray Imaging for Martian Subsurface Exploration

 
Many congratulations to all the winners and for the excellent standard of work and presentations!  Thanks also to the presentation prize panel: Karen Anne Devoil, Ian Crawford, Andrew Rushby and Andrew Coates.

There were a total of 13 research presentations on the day with about 30 attendees, and it was great to see colleagues from all four CPS departments: UCL Physics and Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Space and Climate Physics (a.k.a. MSSL; the Mullard Space Science Laboratory) and Birkbeck Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Many thanks again to all those who presented and attended for making the CPS Summer Meeting such a successful and enjoyable day!