[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 108 (Monday, September 13, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S9120]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     HONORING DR. CATHERINE SNELSON

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I today congratulate Dr. Catherine Snelson, 
assistant professor of geoscience at the University of Nevada, Las 
Vegas, for receiving the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for 
Scientists and Engineers, PECASE.
  This award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government on 
young scientists at the outset of their careers. In addition, Cathy has 
also received the Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award from the 
National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Defense Programs.
  I commend Dr. Snelson for her hard work and commitment to academic 
excellence in the public interest.
  Dr. Snelson received her B.S. from California State University at 
Hayward in 1995, and her M.S. and her Ph.D. in geophysics from the 
University of Texas at El Paso. While completing these degrees, she 
performed fieldwork in the western United States, Ireland, and central 
Europe.
  Since joining the faculty of UNLV as an assistant professor in 
January 2002, Dr. Snelson has continued to do important research that 
will protect the people of Nevada. Specifically she has identified 
areas that would be most affected by seismic events occurring in and 
around the Las Vegas Valley, and she has been involved in setting up 
motion recording stations to monitor earthquakes throughout the valley.
  Please join me in congratulating Dr. Catherine Snelson for her 
academic excellence, and in wishing her well in her promising career as 
a geoscientist.

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