​In January 2016, University of Victoria Master’s student, Dawei Gao, won an Outstanding Student Poster Award at the 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. His co-authored paper on earthquake dynamics explores the question: What would happen if the Cascadia subduction fault (off the west coast of Canada) ruptured, or broke, in the same way as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake? 

Dawei Gao stands ready to answer questions beside his award-winning student poster at the 2015 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Dawei developed profiles of the...