Neala Marie Creasy and Wenbo Wu received the 2019 Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Section Award for Graduate Research at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award is given annually for advances that contribute to “the understanding of the deep interior of the Earth or other planetary bodies using a broad range of observational, experimental, or theoretical approaches.”

Neala Marie Creasy received her B.S. in applied geophysics from Michigan Technological University in 2010, and a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Yale University in 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Maureen Long and Dr. Kanani Lee. Creasy is currently working as a National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences postdoctoral fellow in computational seismology and seismic anisotropy under the supervision of Dr. Ebru Bozdag at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. Her research interests include mantle flow in the deep Earth by using forward and inverse modeling with 3D seismic wave simulations to understand the nature of seismic anisotropy.