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During a summer graduate course at UH Mānoa, participants used a combination of passive seismic and electrical measurements to unravel the complex hydrogeology structure and associated groundwater flow paths at a coastal site in O’ahu, Hawai`i.

Seven UH students participated in the inaugural 2020 X-Force program, including UH Mānoa Earth sciences PhD student Lauren Ward, who partnered with a team to develop a 3D mapping object detection and integration prototype for the U.S. Army.

Take a deeper dive into the new #kilauea2020 #eruption by viewing ground deformation data and analysis of line-of-sight displacement via Sentinel-1 (satellite) Interferometry, courtesy of Bridget Smith-Konter and graduate students Liliane Burkhard and Lauren Ward.

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The University of Hawai‘i Geophysical Society, a group led by SOEST Earth Science graduate students, raises funds through an annual charity softball tournament. Lauren Ward is the Treasurer of this group and this year the $1,238 they raised went to St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

Lauren joins X-Force for 2020 Summer supporting the Army CTO Project.

The Bullard Fellowship of $18,000 was awarded to Lauren Ward for her research efforts. She uses tide gauge and GPS data, including vertical GPS, to model the motions, slip rates and locking depth of the San Andreas fault system through a complete earthquake cycle, along with her advisor, Dr. Bridget Smith-Konter.

Lauren Ward received the 2019 Toby Lee ARCS Award in Earth Sciences of $5,000 and the additional $1,000 Scholar of the Year Award for her efforts to refine simulations of the San Andreas Fault System and its crustal deformation response to the earthquake cycle.

At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Lauren Ward worked with mentor Dr. Petya K. E. Campbell on a summer project related to global carbon-cycle research and the use of measurements from space-based instruments. Lauren studied the relationship between photosynthesis activity and chlorophyll fluorescence at the leaf and canopy scales in her project, "Seasonal Dynamics in Vegetation Solar-Induced Fluorescence Associated with Climate and CO₂ Dynamics." Her research was supported by the Hawai'i Space Grant Consortium.