CHARLES F. RICHTER EARLY CAREER AWARD Diego Melgar Moctezuma, assistant geodetic researcher, was awarded the 2016 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award. The Richter Award honors an outstanding scientist’s efforts to the goals of the Seismological Society of America in the early stage of his or her career. Already, Melgar has made significant contributions to the research areas of earthquake rupture, earthquake early warning, and tsunami modeling. Taking a keen interest in public outreach Melgar has also spoken on the significance and science of seismology to audiences in La Jolla, Berkeley and Marin County, California. Melgar analyzes the source of earthquakes in order to improve seismologists’ understanding of the physics of earthquake rupture. He contributes to the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system in the West Coast by maintaining a 32 station real-time GPS network. Melgar is also developing rapid and efficient tsunami warning systems. In terms of publishing, Melgar has 27 articles in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals under his belt. Before being appointed to his current researcher position, Melgar received his undergraduate degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); his doctoral degree at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego; and most recently completed a postdoc at UC Berkeley.
Diego Melgar
EXCHANGE PROGRAM Clothilde Venereau is participating in an exchange program as a visiting undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. Originally from France, Venereau is studying at Imperial College in London where she is currently enrolled as a junior majoring in Geophysics. She became fascinated with seismology in her second year at Imperial College after taking a “Global Seismology” class. Venereau loves the fact that seismology can be applied to fundamental and diverse scientific questions such as the structure of the earth and geohazard management. Venereau decided to spend the year abroad at UC Berkeley because it was always her dream to study in California. In addition, Clothilde came to UC Berkeley to take advantage of the plethora of classes and to pursue indepth research at the Berkeley Seismology Lab. Her all-time favorite geological place is the French Alps, but she has fallen in love with the geological wonderlands of Yosemite and the Grand Canyon here in the states. In conclusion, Venereau’s time at UC Berkeley and at the BSL, more specifically, has been a busy year but probably the best and most exciting time of her life.
Clothilde Venereau
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