The primary goal of OSPA is to provide student presenters at AGU meetings valuable feedback about their research and presentation skills to help them advance their careers. AGU sections, through the diligent recruiting efforts of coordinators and liaisons, recruit volunteer reviewers to offer written feedback to OSPA presenters.
OSPA recognizes outstanding students for their quality research in Earth and space science as well as their ability to effectively communicate it, as demonstrated by presentations at the Annual Meeting. The prestigious award is only given to the top 3-5% of student presenters in each section. The Cryosphere Section is proud of our strong cohort of past student awardees.
Student presentations are evaluated according to a common rubric by up to three reviewers. AGU encourages students to remind attendees that they are presenting in OSPA and that they would like feedback in the OSPA portal, such as including a slide or QR code pointing to their presentation or poster in the online evaluation portal.
More information on participating as a judge or student, as well as a link to previous winners, can be found here.
Cryosphere OSPA Winners
2024 [Soon TBA]
- Student name, affiliation at time of presentation
2023
- Eliza Dawson, Stanford University
- Maya Fields, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
- Eric Gagliano, University of Washington
- Jillian Steinmetz, Cornell University
- Katherine Robinson, Simon Fraser University
- George Lu, Columbia University
- Sophie de Roda Husman, Delft University of Technology
- Kira Michelle Holland, University of Alberta
- Megan Thompson-Munson, University of Colorado Boulder
2022
- Advik Eswaran, Princeton University
- Mohammad Farhat, Observatoire De Paris
- Rigoberto Moncada Lopez, California Institute of Technology
- Andrew Nolan, Simon Fraser University
- Adrià Fontrodona-Bach, University of Birmingham
- Joel Wilner, Dartmouth College
2021
- Riley Culberg, Stanford University
- Devon Dunmire, University of Colorado Boulder
- Ingalise Kindstedt, University of Maine
- Tabea Rettelbach, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz
- Lindsey Michelle Smith, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Jack Tarricone, University of Nevada, Reno
2020
- Benjamin Hills, University of Washington
- Vincent Cooper, University of Washington
- James Kirkham, British Antarctic Survey
- Rebecca Muhlheim, Carleton College
- Celia Trunz, University of Arkansas
- Aymeric Servettaz, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
2019
2018
- Elizabeth Case, Columbia University
- Devon Dunmire, University of Colorado Boulder
- Michalea D King, Ohio State University
- Indraneel Kasmalkar, Stanford University
- Adrienne Michelle Marshall, University of Idaho
- Ariel Morrison, University of Colorado Boulder
- Ben M Pelto, University of Northern British Columbia
- Mike Wood, University of California Irvine
2017
- Maya Karina Becker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Michalea D King, Ohio State University
- Donal O'Leary, University of Maryland College Park
- Konstanze Haubner, University of Copenhagen
- Sarah W. Cooley, Brown University
- Camilla Francesca Brunello, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Alexandra Pulwicki, Simon Fraser University
- Simon Pendleton, University of Colorado Boulder
- Mariah J Radue, University of Maine