Congratulations to Maria Tsekhmistrenko, on being awarded the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 2018 AGU Fall meeting in Washinton D.C.

Maria is a current Postgraduate Student at the Department of Earth Sciences in Oxford working within the Seismology Group with Tarje Nissen-Meyer and Karin Sigloch. Maria’s AGU presentation related to her research project, investigating the La Reunion plume and was titled: An Indian Ocean cluster of mantle plumes imaged by multifrequency P-wave tomography — a match to geochemical correlations?

“I was thrilled to know our presentation won the OSPA. I am very thankful to the judges for their kind comments and helpful feedback. I also want to thank the coordinators for organizing a great session.”

You can find out more about Maria’s current research here.