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Research Grants Awarded for 2005

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Emmett Evanoff (chair), Bruce Bryant, Don Sweetkind (CSS Treasurer), and Jim Cappa

Total grants awarded: $9,950

Grants awarded to:

Jennifer L. Aschoff, U TX-Austin: Control of Fold-Thrust Belt Transverse Zones on Basinal Sandstone Tongue Development in the Cordilleran Foreland Basin
Richard S. Barclay, Northwestern U: Linking the Marine and Terrestrial Records of the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event to Test the pCO2 Drawdown Hypothesis Using Fossil Plant Cuticle
Erica Bigio, UAZ: The Integration of Tree-Ring and Alluvial Fan Records of Fire at the Missionary Ridge Fire, Durango Colorado
Julia Ferguson, U Ill: Detailed Stratigraphic Analysis of the Upper Stratified Member of the Wapiti Formation, east-central Absaroka Range, Wyoming
Kurt L. Frankel, USC: Tectonic Controls on Erosion in the Southern Rocky Mountains
Kevin Hadder, USU: Quaternary Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Browns Park, Utah and Colorado
Jodi Lau, U Ill: Paleomagnetic Analysis of the Chinese Wall Trachyandesite, east-central Absaroka Range, Wyoming
Scott Muggleton, UNM: Magnetic fabrics as indicators of magma flow and implications for emplacement mechanisms of the Spanish Peaks igneous complex (south-central Colorado)
Thomas Neeley, CSU: 3D strain at transitions in foreland arch geometry: structural modeling of the Beartooth arch – Rattlesnake Mountain transition, NW Wyoming
Daniel Peppe, Yale: Integrated stratigraphy of a North American terrestrial Paleocene reference section: implications for long-term climate change and postextinction biotic recovery
Kelly R. Probst, U FL: Assessing Precambrian crust through a geochemical investigation of Mesozoic plutons in the northwestern Cordillera: Implications for continental reconstructions and metallogenesis
Dustin Trail, UC: Identifying the earliest Precambrian crustal components: Detrital zircons from the Beartooth Mountains, Montana
William Thomas Wilcox, Miami U, Ohio: Biostratigraphic evaluation of the Jurassic Curtis, Summerville, and Stump Formations, central-northeastern Utah

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Research Grants Awarded for 2006

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Vince Matthews (chair), Don Sweetkind (CSS Treasurer), and Jim Cappa

Total grants awarded: $10,100

Grants awarded to:

Riyad Ali-Adeeb, U MN-Duluth: Stratal architecture of the upper Morrison Formation: Tectonic and climatic implication
Benjamin Burger, UC-Boulder: Age and correlation of fossiliferous Late Paleocene-Early Eocene strata in the Piceance Creek basin, western Colorado
Siobhan Fackelman, UNC: Potential Impact Structure: Santa Fe, NM
Debra S. Jennings, Baylor U: Differentiating Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironments in the Morrison Formation, central Wyoming using detailed paleopedalogical analyses
Adam Majeski, USU: Distinctly different fluvial systems tied together through a common base level: Geologic and Geomorphic Response of the Dirty Devil River, North Wash Creek, and the Colorado River to rapid base level drop of Lake Powell
Sara Lynn Peyton, UAZ: Temporal evolution of the Laramide orogeny from (U-Th)/He thermochronology
Kurt Refsnider, UW-Madison: Quaternary Glacial and Climate History of the Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado
Justin Tully, Montana State University: Structural Investigation of the Elk Range thrust system in the Pearl Pass quadrangle, west-central Colorado

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Research Grants Awarded for 2007

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Research Grants Awarded for 2008

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Bill Nesse (chair)

Total grants awarded: $11,000 from the Ogden Tweto, Steven Oriel, Bill Pierce, and George Snyder Memorial Funds.

Grants awarded to:

Bradley Johnson, U. N Carolina: The effect of Holocene climate change on alpine landscapes in the southeastern San Juan Mountains Colorado
Christina Carr, Mont. SU: Fault segmentation control on alluvial fan development along the Lemhi Range, east-central Idaho
Byron Straw, UNC: Glacial and Periglacial Record of Post-Pinedale Climatic Events, Lake of the Clouds Cirque, Never Summer Mountains, Colorado.
Zachary Wessel, CSU: The nature of the Idaho Springs-Ralston Shear Zone: Implications for Proterozoic Tectonics and Laramide Magmatism
Wesley Clary, CSU: The Kinematic History of the Southern PicurisPecos Fault System, New Mexico: A critical Test of Rocky Mountain Tectonic Models
Ryan Thompson, CSU: Possible coupling of intra-basin fracturing with basin-bounding deformation, Central Wyoming
Brady Foreman, UWY: Fluvial response to abrupt climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Bighorn and Piceance Creek Basins, USA
Jesse Thompson, KU: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Rollins Sandstone Member (Illes/Mount Garfield Formation) and Cameo-Wheeler Coal Zone, Piceance Basin, Colorado
Douglas Portis, NAZU: Proterozoic deformation and metamorphism, southern Hualapai Mountains, Northwest Arizona: Refining the western boundary between the Mohave-Yavapai crustal Provinces

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Research Grants Awarded for 2009

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Matt Morgan (chair), J. Burnell, Cal Ruleman, C. Turner, and Don Sweetkind (CSS Treasurer)

Total grants awarded: $13,580 from the Ogden Tweto, Steven Oriel, Edwin Eckel, Bill Pierce, and George Snyder Memorial Funds.

Grants awarded to:

Stephanie Mason, U NM: Paleomagnetism and structural analysis of the western margin of the Rio Grande Rift, San Luis Basin: Implication for the kinematic evolution of continental rift zones
Karen Williams, Mont. SU: Stream channel organization: the relationship between patterns in channel form and unit stream power
Holly Brunkal, CSM: Channel infilling rates and mechanisms for runoff-initiated debris flows following wildfire in the western U.S.
Senthil Yuvara, BGSU: Reassessing the reservoir characteristics of the Pictured Cliffs Sandstone, San Juan Basin, Colorado and New Mexico, using architectural-element analysis
Christopher Cassle, CSU: Detailed sedimentological and stratigraphic analyses of black shale successions within the Permian Phosphoria Formation of Idaho and Wyoming, USA
David Nicklaus, Miami U: Depositional origin of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Buckhorn Conglomerate, Colorado and Utah
Cody Routson, UAZ: Paleoclimate Reconstruction for the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Jill Onken, UAZ: Late Holocene alluvial cycles, landscape change, and climatic controls in the Carrizo Wash watershed of west-central New Mexico
Jennifer Manion, WASU: The older hydrothermal system in Yellowstone National Park
Skye Cooley, USU: Co-evolution of Pleistocene Bear River and Pluvial Lake Bonneville
Matthew Zimmerer, NMIMT: Constraining the relationship between the volcanic and plutonic record using the geochronology of eroded calderas of the Southern Rocky Mountain Volcanic Field
Joshua Keeley, IDSU: Geochemistry of Neoproterozoic volcanic rocks and granitic clasts from the Pocatello Formation and formation of Perry Canyon in southeastern Idaho and northern Utah: Implications for Rodinian rifting
Carley Freer, U Houston: Investigation of the deformation history of reactivated asymmetric anticlines in the Southern Rocky Mountains using field-based structural analysis and mechanical modeling
Nicolas Young, U Buffalo – SUNY: 10Be chronology of late Pleistocene outburst floods and ice extent in the Upper Arkansas River Valley, Colorado
Laura Hamlin, UWY: Determining the controls on extensional fracturing in the Wyoming Foreland using integrated kinematic analysis
Warren Roe, Mont SU: Tertiary paleogeography and sedimentology of the Big Hole basin, southwestern Montana

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Research Grants Awarded for 2010

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Matt Morgan (chair), Bruce Geller, and Don Sweetkind (CSS Treasurer)

Total grants awarded: $11,900 from the Ogden Tweto, Steven Oriel, Edwin Eckel, Bill Pierce, and George Snyder Memorial Funds.

Grants awarded to:

Kristin Jacob, UC-B: The Petrogenesis of Silicic Magmas Based on U-Pb Zircon Geochronology and Geochemical Studies: The Never Summer Igneous Complex, Colorado
Scott McFadden, Iowa SU: The origin of nodular sillimanite rocks and their genetic relationship to metamorphosed Proterozoic Cu-zn and Pb-Zn deposits, Colorado
Sean Polun, Idaho SU: Dike Related Rifting in the Quaternary Blackfoot Volcanic Field, SE Idaho: Implications for Geothermal Energy Development
Josh Maurer, BGSU: Reinterpretation of depositional environment and timing of the Devonian Ignacio and Elbert formations; San Juan Basin, Colorado
Natalie Kramer, CSU: Using Ground Penetrating Radar to characterize the stratigraphic architecture of post-glacial valley fill, Rocky Mountains, Northern Colorado
Trevor Ycas, Fort Lewis College: Dendrochemical Signatures of Anthropogenic Metal Pollution in Engelmann Spruce (Picea engelmannii): an investigation of historic metal concentrations in a highly mineralized hard-rock mining district.
David Reioux, U Mont: Metamorphic evolution of the southern Highland Mountains, Montana, and implications for the reconstruction of Laurentia
Jennifer Gifford, U FL: A New View into the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle of the Great Falls Tectonic Zone
Karri Sicard, UWY: Understanding the relationship between Cretaceous and Tertiary magmatism, deformation, and metamorphism in a metamorphic core complex and partial crustal section East Humboldt Range, Nevada
Stephanie Mason, UNM: Paleomagnetism of Oligocene Ignimbrites from the Western Margin of the San Luis Basin: Implication for the Kinematic Evolution of the Rio Grande Rift
Chris Denison, CSU: Geologic implications for the mountain pine beetle epidemic, Willow Creek Pass, Grand County, CO
Christopher Florian, UC-B: High Plains Lake Coring Project

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Research Grants Awarded for 2011

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Scott Minor (chair), Matt Morgan, Scott Lundstrom, and Don Sweetkind (CSS Treasurer)

Total grants awarded: $11,285 from the Ogden Tweto, Steven Oriel, Edwin Eckel, Bill Pierce, and George Snyder Memorial Funds.

Grants awarded to:

Evan Anderson, UC-Boulder: The microchemistry of Green River insects: resolving the taphonomy of lacustrine carbonaceous compressions
Alberto Carmenate, U FL: Low-T thermochronology of south-central ID: an investigation of interactions between uplift, extension, and hotspot processes
Catherine Cox, Anya Reitz, Ryan Isherwood, CSM: Analysis of the origin of the Crestone crater, CO
Kevin Hobbs, UNM: A paleoclimatic survey of the Paleocene sediments of the San Juan Basin, NM
Ethan Lake, U TX-Austin: Giant ignimbrites of southwestern CO: new geochemical and thermal insights into the origins of super eruptions
Christopher Peterson, U NV-Reno: Geologic mapping of northwestern North Park, CO, with emphasis in sedimentology of the Coalmont Formation
Caroline Pew, U WA: Floral response to climate change during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in Hanna Basin, WY
Kate Allstadt, U WA: Shallow repeating seismic events under an alpine glacier on Mount Rainier, WA: evidence for seasonal stick-slip glacier sliding events or volcanic earthquakes?
Mu (Anne) Ji, CSU: Changes in arsenopyrite dissolution rates over 130 years in arsenic contaminated floodplain deposits, Black Hills, SD
Victor Guevara, U Mont: Thermochronological constraints on the Clearwater metamorphic core complex, ID
Robert Mahon, Idaho SU: Geologic map of the Saddle Peak Hills and a portion of the Old Ibex Pass 7.5’ quads, sequence stratigraphy of the Beck Spring Dolomite and age constraints from the Pahrump Group, Death Valley, CA
Matthew Sophy, UNM: Characterization of geothermal resources around Sierra Cuchillo, NM
Rebecca Deal, U N Carolina: Temporal and spatial variability of high-resolution, post-last glacial maximum climate records, southern San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Rose Feinstein, U. Houston: Effects of catastrophic blowdown on the channel morphology of headwater streams in the Routt National Forest, Colorado

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Research Grants Awarded for 2012

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: not recorded

Total grants awarded: $12,325 from the Ogden Tweto, Steven Oriel, Edwin Eckel, Bill Pierce, and George Snyder Memorial Funds.

Grants awarded to:

Whitney G. Bausch, MS, University of Montana: The Petrology, Geochemistry, and Age of Extension in the Lost Trail Pass Dike Swarm, SW Montana
Lesley Ann Butcher, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder: What caused the Laramide Orogeny? Testing the lower crustal hydration hypothesis using xenoliths
Cailey B. Condit, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder: Integrated geologic history of the Precambrian rocks of the Madison Range, Montana: implications for lower crustal deformational processes and the assembly of Laurentia
Magdalena Donahue, PhD, University of New Mexico: Uplift of the Rocky Mountains, new age contraints and thermochronology on pre-Oligocene sedimentary units of southwestern Colorado and northern New Mexico
Melissa Foster, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder: Timing the alluvial deposition and abandonment of strath terraces along the Front Range near Boulder, CO
Thomas R. Good, MS, University of Utah: Paleoenvironmental Implications of Trace Fossil Assemblages in a Jurassic Eolianite, Nugget Sandstone, Dinosaur National Monument
William Huff, MS, Utah State University: Reconstructing Arroyo Entrenchment and aggradation events in Southern Utah: Implicaitons of a Changing Climate
Jeffrey S. Ingram, MS, University of Missouri, Columbia: Geologic mapping, structural analysis, and metamorphic studies of Paleoproterozoic reworking in the Elmers Rock Greenstone Belt, central Laramie Mountains, Wyoming
Amber Johnson-Carroll, MS, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology: A stratigraphic evaluation and correlation of the Jurassic Morrison Formation in southern Montana
Jeremy A. Riedel, MS, University of New Hampshire: Constraining the timing of the Wasatchian/Bridgerian boundary in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming
Robert Salaz, MS, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology: U-Series dating of travertine deposits and water chemistry analysis of springs and wells near ponderosa, NM: Implications for defining the eastern limits of the Valles Outflow Plume
Joel S. Sholtes, PhD, Colorado State University: Influence of network scale and hydrology on geomorphic sensitivity to environmental change
Zachary Vance, MS, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology: Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Gallinas Mountains, NM: A stable isotope study addressing the genesis of the Fluorite-REE deposits and their associated fluids
Adam M. Zurn, UG, Fort Lewis College: Relative Age of Mass-Wasted Rock Slabs from Varnish Microlaminations

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Research Grants Awarded for 2013

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: not recorded

Total grants awarded: over $6,500 accepted by May 13, 2013, from the Ogden Tweto, Steven Oriel, Edwin Eckel, Bill Pierce, and George Snyder Memorial Funds.

These Grants had been accepted by May 13, 2013:

Martin Cramer, University of Montana: Tectonothermal evolution of the western margin of Laurentia: Archean to Proterozoic metamorphism in the Ruby Range, southwest Montana
Patrick Gelato, University of Florida: (U-Th)/He thermochronology of the Boise Mountains. (Idaho): Miocene exhumation associated with migration of the Yellowstone hotspot and development of the Western Snake River Plain
Mario Guzman: Fluid Evolution and Gold Mineralization at the North Amethyst Vein System, Creede District, Colorado
Brett Hernandez: Rheomorphism and Depositional Kinematics at Ruby and Sugarloaf Mountains
Rachel Landman, University of Colorado-Boulder: Constraining thermal histories in carbonates and marine shales: conodont AHe calibration in the White River Uplift
Chong Ma, University of Florida: Thermal evolution of the mid/lower crust in Sawtooth metamorphic complex (Sawtooth Mountains, ID)
Joseph Mangano Colorado State University: Morphologic Evaluation and Sediment Budget Using Airborne LiDAR and Repeat Cross Sections, Upper Colorado River, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
Francis Rengers: Sedimentology of Gully Cut and Fill Sequences in the Denver Basin
Jacob O. Thacker: Structural and mineralogic characterization of the South Prairie fault in the Stillwater Complex, Beartooth Mountains, Montana

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Research Grants Awarded for 2014

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Matt Sares (chair), Pete Modreski, Lisa Fisher, and Don Sweetkind (CSS Treasurer)

Total grants awarded: $12,300 from the Ogden Tweto, Steven Oriel, Edwin Eckel, Bill Pierce, and George Snyder Memorial Funds.

Grants awarded to:

Melissa Foster, CU-B: Fire and Flood: Calculating erosion rates associated with the Boulder Flood, 2013
Derek Schook, CSU: Using dendrochronology to extend Rocky Mountain river discharge records and understand floodplain geomorphology
Scott Shahverdian, CSU: Mechanisms and controls on post-fire sediment storage and evacuation, South Fork Cache la Poudre Basin, CO
Kendra Johnson, CSM: Degradation of the Hebgen Lake rupture (Montana) and application of diffusion coefficients to undated scarps in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Mongolia
Dale Malinzak, SDMT: Vertebrate Paleontology, Paleobiogeography, and Paleoecology of Late Maastrichtian Laramidia and Statistical Analysis of its Bearing on Hypotheses of Faunal Provinciality
Trevor Atkinson, Utah S: Geochemical and Geophysical Characterization of the Mountain Home Air Force Base Geothermal Resource
Doug Nichols, Colo. Mesa U: Age revision of the Miocene Browns Park Formation and Oligocene Bishop Conglomerate based on new detrital zircon studies, northwest Colorado
Hal Wershow, W. Washington U: Holocene glacial and paleoclimate reconstructions for the Lyman Glacier and the North Cascades, Washington
Dan Scott, CSU: Physical Controls on Delta Formation and Carbon Storage in Mountain Lakes
Nick Sutfin, CSU: Geomorphic controls on floodplain sediment aggradation and riparian carbon retention in mountainous headwater streams of the Colorado Front Range
Victor Guevara, Virginia Tech: Laurentia’s oldest granulites? Probing for metamorphic evidence of collisional orogenesis on early Earth
Tyson Berndt, KU: Metamorphic and structural evolution and provenance of the Blue Ridge area, Fremont County, Colorado
Mario Guzman, CSM: Fluid Evolution and Gold Deposition of the North Amethyst Vein System, Creede District, Colorado
Dominic Pyanoe, CSU: Fluid evolution in the polymetallic vein fields of the Montezuma Mining District, Colorado and exploration implications for a possible underlying base metal porphyry
Jordan Dickinson, Baylor U: A seismo-lineament study of selected earthquakes near Trinidad, southern Colorado
Josh Johnson, CU-B: New ways to decipher the past: Exhumation constraints on the Colorado Front Range by testing and developing helium thermochronometers
Meredith Bush, UT-Austin: Depositional Response of Southern Laramide Basins to Paleogene Tectonic Reorganization of North America: Evolution of the Galisteo-El Rito & Raton Basin
Crystal Rauch, CSU: San Juan Formation: Evidence for pyroclastic origins of thick and extensive conglomerate
Rachel Swihart, BGSU: Origin of Topaz Bearing Rhyolite Lava Domes: Geochemical Investigation of the Nathrop Volcanics

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Research Grants Awarded for 2015

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Scott Lundstrom (chair), Paul Morgan, Matt Sares, and Don Sweetkind (CSS Treasurer)

Total grants awarded: $8,619 from the Ogden Tweto, Steven Oriel, Edwin Eckel, Bill Pierce, and George Snyder Memorial Funds.

Grants awarded to:

Emma Bradford, CSM: Compensational behavior of debris flow fans
Derek Schook, CSU: Quantifying river migration rates using nested scales of geomorphic analysis
Brady Utley, USU: Dynamic relationships between the Bear River, Quaternary basaltic centers, normal faults, and the resulting landscape evolution of the northeast edge of the Great Basin, southeast Idaho
Stuart Parker, U Mont: Deformed river gravel deposits of the southern Beaverhead Mountains
Weston Martin, USU: Source rock potential and structural setting of mid-Neoproterozoic extensional basins, Utah and Arizona
GG Ellsworth, U Memphis: The timing, rate and deformational sequence inside the Heart Mountain Detachment zone, Wyoming
Gerhard Heij, U OK: The Heart Mountain Detachment’s ultracataclasite: flash heating recorded by pseudomorphic minerals and a surprisingly consistent magnetic fabric
Suzanne Craddock, NAZU: Unraveling the history of tectonic burial and Barrovian metamorphism in the Funeral Mountains, Death Valley
Daphnee Tuzlak, USU: Investigating patterns of bedrock incision to understand fluvial processes and tectonic deformation around the Yellowstone Hotspot — Snake River Canyon, Wyoming
Annette Patton, CSU: Upland process and controls on 2013 debris flows, Rocky Mountain National Park
Dirk Rasmussen, Western Washington U: Assessing latitudinal gradients and spatial variability in fluvial response to abrupt global warming at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary
Luke Schwaub, U Idaho: Reservoir characterization of the Logan Gulch Member of the Three Forks Formation in Western Montana

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Research Grants Awarded for 2016

Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Paul Morgan (chair), Lisa Fisher, Melissa Foster, and Peter Barkmann

Total grants awarded: over $10,000 from the Ogden Tweto, Steven Oriel, Edwin Eckel, Bill Pierce, and George Snyder Memorial Funds.

Grants awarded to:

Ryan Creitz, NMSU: Stratigraphic history and provenance of Eocene synorogenic strata in southern New Mexico: implications of basin formation and sediment dispersal during the final stages of the Laramide orogeny
Andrew Harp, SUNY-Buffalo: Determining the propagation direction and an eruption’s influence on magma flow direction within silicic dikes, Summer Coon Volcano, CO, US
Kelly Kochanski, UC-B: Sastrugi formation in the Rocky Mountains
Erin Lathrop, USU: Capturing changes in the Mesoproterozoic carbon cycle: C-isotope stratigraphy of the ~1254 Ma Bass Formation, Grand Canyon Supergroup, AZ
Caitlin Leslie, Baylor U: Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate Reconstruction of the Lower Paleocene Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
John Ethan Malone, Augustana: Does the Florence Pass Shear Zone in the Big Horn Mountains of North-Central Wyoming exist?
James Daniel Pike, Texas Tech: Surface hierarchy characterization and wind parameters from a lower Permian coastal dune field, Ingleside Formation, Manitou Springs, Colorado
Anthony Pivarunas, U FL: Paleomagnetism and Geochronology of the McClure Mountain igneous complex
Maxwell Pommer, CSM: Biotic and chemical controls on sedimentation, sequence stratigraphy, and diagenesis in the Phosphoria Rock Complex (Permian), Rocky Mountain Region, USA
Sean Ross Scott, U WY: Non-traditional stable isotope systematics of Yellowstone hot springs
Patrick Whalen, U. Kentucky: Evaluating Pyroclastic Sedimentary Rocks: Examples from the Oligocene of Central Colorado
Ryan Wilhelmi, U FL: Protolith, Provenance, Cooling History and Deposition Age of Basement Rocks in the Blacktail Mountains, Montana