Mousumi Roy
![Roy working on a project to build short-drill-braced monuments for a GPS study of the current extension rates across the Rio Grande Rift in New Mexico and Colorado. The study was funded by the NSF-Earthscope program.](https://i0.wp.com/advance.unm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_0181-300x225.jpeg?resize=300%2C225)
Honor:
2016 Women In STEM award winner
Title:
professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Winning project:
What Lies Beneath the Dunes? Geophysical Modeling of Subsurface Structure in White Sands National Monument.
Project focus:
The project looks at the influence of subsurface geology and earth structure on dune migration patterns in the world’s largest gypsum sand dune field.