This is a chance for student and early career earth scientists to present their research via a poster and a Lightning Talk (3 minutes) on their research.
CSS November 2005 Meeting
CSS Poster and Lightning Talk Night for Students and Early Career Earth Scientists
Thursday, November 20, 2025
This is a chance for student and early career earth scientists to present their research via a poster and a Lightning Talk (3 minutes) on their research.
We had pizza with beer and soft drinks for refreshments.
This meeting was held at Calvary Church Golden.
Presentations and Presenters
Thermometric, Geochronologic, and Petrologic Evidence for an Oligocene Thermal Pulse in the Sangre de Cristo Range, Southern Colorado
Samantha Malavarca, Colorado State University
New Detailed Geologic Mapping of the Sand Creek and Little Sand Creek Fault Systems, Sangre De Cristo Mountains, Colorado
Dylan Frawley, Colorado State University
Neogene Southwestern U.S. Temperatures Paced by Global Temperature Change
Rachel Bernstein, Colorado State University
Preliminary geology of the northern half of the Loveland Pass 7.5 minute Quadrangle, central Colorado Front Range
Joshua Thomas, Colorado School of Mines
Subsurface Dynamics of Microplastics in the Land of Headwaters
Ashley Ford, Colorado State University
Deformation along the Nashoba-Avalon terrane boundary in Eastern Massachusetts
Nikhil Arolkar, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Enhancing mineral systems exploration through geochronology, thermochronology, and isotope analysis: USGS Geochron and USGS Isotope databases
Kelly Thomson, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, USGS
Stratigraphic Correlation and High Precision Age Determination of the Middle and Lower Hell Creek Formation
Dorian Gursky, Colorado School of Mines – Geology Department
Sedimentology & Geochronology of the Upper Cretaceous Santa Marta Fm, James Ross Island, Antarctica
Zoë Bowers, Colorado School of Mines
Mapping Surface Deformation using Terrestrial LiDAR and UAS-Multispectral Imaging at the Axial Underground Coal Mine Fire
Jessie Hiatt, Colorado School of Mines
Age and Depositional Framework of an Enigmatic “Shelf-Isolated” Sandstone: The Late Turonian Wall Creek-Turner System, WY
Patrick Sullivan, Colorado School of Mines
High-Precision Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry for the Santa Rita porphyry Cu-Mo-Au-Zn deposit, New Mexico
Sean Gaynor, USGS
40Ar/39Ar Geochronology Supporting Mineral Resources Research at USGS Denver
Cameron Mercer, U.S. Geological Survey
Enhanced Map Unit Correlation and Basin History interpretations from Detrital Zircon U-Pb data: Cenozoic strata of the Death Valley National Park area, California and Nevada, USA
Theresa Schwartz, US Geological Survey
We did not capture the Posters and Lightning Talks in a video
