Grant Block wins NSF/USGS Internship
November 18, 2024
Congratulations to Grant Block on being awarded a National Science Foundation/United States Geological Survey Internship!
He will be working on building new capability in the Pylith modeling software in order to build models of surface deformation at the Yellowstone Caldera.
Grant is the first UNM Physics student to win this award.
About NSF/USGS Internships
The National Science Foundation and USGS collaboration is designed to encourage, develop, and facilitate research opportunities at USGS for NSF-supported graduate students. Administered as supplements to current grants, a primary objective is to expose graduate students to the federal science workplace and provide career mentoring.
About the Research
Last year, Grant was first author on a research paper published in the Geophysical Research Letters along with Professor Mousumi Roy. See the Roy Lab website for more information about Geophysics.
