Kudos to Assistant Professor Christopher Hamilton, named one of Science News magazine's 10 young scientists to watch (SN10; the only planetary scientist in the list). Christopher spends some of his time studying terrestrial volcanic areas like Iceland and Hawai’i, and then applies that knowledge to volcanoes all over the solar system.

Professor Hamilton received the Geological Society of America (GSA) Early Career Award in the Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, & Volcanology Division and was previously awarded a NASA Early Career Fellowship and a faculty fellowship from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, which provided a stipend and a 10-week summer residency at Marshall Space Flight Center.