Bridget Smith-Konter

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2005; Earth Science/Geophysics; Advisor David T. Sandwell

B.S., Northern Arizona University, 1999; Astronomy and Physics (Magna Cum Laude)

2021 Full Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

2016-2021 Associate Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (with tenure)

2014-2016 Assistant Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

2012-2014 Associate Professor, University of Texas at El Paso (with tenure)

2008-2012 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso

2007-2008 Postdoctoral Researcher, California Inst. of Technology, NASA JPL

2005-2007 Postdoctoral Researcher, UC San Diego, Scripps Inst. Oceanography

1999-2005 Graduate Research Asst., UC San Diego, Scripps Inst. Oceanography

1999 Undergraduate Research Asst., NASA Ames, NASA Astrobiology Academy

1998 Undergraduate Research Asst., Stanford University (SLAC)

1997-1999 Undergraduate Research Asst., NASA Space Grant, Lowell Observatory

SOEST Teaching Excellence Award (2022)

UTEP College of Science Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching (2011)

UTEP Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Outstanding Research Award (2009)

NSF Faculty Early Career Award (2008)

American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting Outstanding Geodesy Student Paper Award (2004)

1st Place, SIO Visualization Contest (2003)

E. Frieman Director’s Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research (2003)

NASA Earth System Science Fellowship (2003-2005)

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1999-2002)

Northern Arizona University Outstanding Graduating Senior in the Arts and Sciences (1999)

University of Hawaiʻi University Representative, UNAVCO, 2020

Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Science Planning Committee; Co-Lead of the Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT) Interdisciplinary Focus Group (2016-2021)

UNAVCO Geodetic Infrastructure Advisory Committee (2015-2017)

UNAVCO Plate Boundary Observatory Working Group Committee(2015-2017)

EarthScope Speaker Series (2011-2012)

EarthScope Education and Outreach Committee (2011-2014)

Earth Moves Me!, Program Director (2018-2021)

Education