Meredith Plumley will receive the 2018 Donald L. Turcotte Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. This award is given annually to a recent Ph.D. recipient for “outstanding dissertation research that contributes directly to nonlinear geophysics.”  

Meredith Plumley received her B.A. in mathematics in 2011 from Washington University in St. Louis. She joined the applied mathematics department at the University of Colorado Boulder for her graduate work, earning her Ph.D. in 2018 under the supervision of Keith Julien and Michael Calkins. Her research topics include fluid dynamics, planetary magnetic fields, and model reduction techniques. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher with Andrew Jackson at ETH Zürich in the Department of Earth Sciences.