I am very excited to report that I received the 2026 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award from the Seismological Society of America! SSA is such a wonderful and collaborative community; I’m proud to be a small part of it and am truly honored to receive this award. I share it with all of the extremely generous mentors and collaborators, to whom I owe my career.

Becky Ham at SSA wrote a very kind announcement about the award that you can read here: https://www.seismosoc.org/award-recipient/kevin-milner/

And speaking of generous collaborators, one of my dear friends Scott Callaghan decided to “make a fuss” and surprised me with a sea of my heads on sticks while I accepted the award:

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Photo credit: Mike Blanpied