Awards

• Highly Commended PhD Thesis from the University of Leeds' Examination Board
• Outstanding Student Presentation Award at AGU 2012
• Won 2nd Prize for Student Post-graduate Researcher of the Year Award at Leeds University 2011 Research (SHOWCASE Website)
• Nominated for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Excellence Award, 2011
• Highly commended by NSF for Student Oral Presentation at ISAES, Edinburgh, July 2011
• Awarded best Poster in session at the SCAR Open Science Conference, Buenos Aires, July 2010
• Awarded best Poster at UKPN Cryospheric Workshop in Sheffield, November 2009

Funding

• Part of successful bid to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on behalf of UKPN. This bid was for funding for 3 workshops, a series of schools visits and 2 networking events.
• Departmental bursary awarded for academic performance at the University of Lancaster (2007 - 2008)
• Awarded a three month placement by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) at the University of Regensburg to study German Language (Summer 2004)
• Partial Scholarship awarded to attend Aberystwyth University (2002 - 2006)

Travel Grants

• AGU Student Travel Grant 2011
• TransAntarctic Association award granted for travel to AGU in 2011
• SCAR travel grant award to attend SCAR Open Science Conference 2010, Buenos Aires, July 2010
• Full Argentinean Fellowship award for SCAR Open Science Conference 2010 registration costs, Buenos Aires, July 2010
• TransAntarctic Association award granted for travel to summer school in 2010
• SCAR travel grant award to attend the UKNCAR Town Meeting, London, April 2010
• Travel Support granted to attend the Workshop on Pliocene Climates, Bordeaux, Oct 2009
• Antarctic Climate Evolution travel grant to attend Antarctic Climate Evolution Symposium, Granada, Sept 2009
• TransAntarctic Association award granted for travel to summer school in 2009