| 2020 | - Science Dialog (Scialog) Fellow in Astrobiology: “Signatures of Life in the Universe”, Co-Sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) and Heising–Simons Foundation
- Fulbright–NSF Arctic Initiative Scholar, Faculty Fellowship to the University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences
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| 2017 | - Invited by the Icelandic government to help develop a proposal for a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site within the Central Highlands (The Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland was successfully inscribed as a World Heritage Center in 2019)
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| 2016 | - Chair of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) Working Group on Volcano–Ice Interactions
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| 2015 | - NASA Early Career Fellowship (ECF) Award
- Appointed to the Editorial Board of GSA’s journal Geology
- Vice-Chair of the IAVCEI Working Group on Volcano–Ice Interactions
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| 2014 | - Elected Secretary of the IAVCEI Working Group on Volcano–Ice Interactions
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| 2011 | - NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellowship (2011–2013)
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| 2010 | - Graduate Student Marshall, Spring Commencement, University of Hawai‘i
- University of Hawai‘i Research Council Doctoral Research Achievement Award
- Mark Lierman Memorial Scholarship from the Hawai‘i Geographic Information Coordinating Council for extraordinary achievements in Geography and GIS
- Research Highlight in Nature Geoscience (https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1011)
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| 2009 | - AGU award for outstanding student presentation (Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Division)
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| 2007 | - Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNÍS) student research grant
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| 2006 | - GSA student research grant with an award for outstanding merit
- Research grant from the Graduate Student Organization, University of Hawai‘i
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| 2005 | - Léopold Gélinas Medal from the Geological Association of Canada (GAC) for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Canada (Volcanology and Igneous Petrology Division)
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| 2004 | - Canadian National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postgraduate Masters Scholarship
- Dalhousie University, Earth Sciences, Best Undergraduate Thesis Award
- AGU award for outstanding student presentation (Planetary Sciences Division)
- Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS), Rupert MacNeil Award for best presentation
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| 2003 | - Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences (APICS) award for best presentation
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| 2002 | - Dalhousie University Student Work International Fund Scholarship
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