Student Research Grants Awarded for 2019
The 2019 Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee was: Bob Raynolds, 2018 Past President and Committee Chair; Tom Casadevall, 2019 President; Marith Reheis, 2017 Past President; Melissa Foster, Student Programs Chair; Lisa Fisher, Secretary and 2011 Past President; Don Sweetkind, Treasurer and 2009 Past President.
Every year, the Colorado Scientific Society’s supports the next generation of scientists by awarding grants through its Memorial Funds Grant Program. The Society maintains six funds established through generous gifts from members and friends. The six funds are the Ogden Tweto Fund, the Steven Oriel Fund, the Edwin Eckel Fund, the Bill Pierce Fund, and the George Snyder Fund. Interest accrued during each year is awarded to senior undergraduates and graduate students through a competitive application process. The principal balances remain untouched assuring continuation of the program.
Twenty four proposals were received from MS and PhD students at nineteen different institutions.
A total of $15,020 was awarded to twenty recipients at amounts ranging from $500 to $1000.
Grants were awarded to:
Adeniyi, Elijah, PhD candidate at Montana State University: The origin and timing of CO2 reservoired in the Duperow Formation, Kevin Dome, Montana
Al Harthy, Mohammed, Masters candidate at University of Mississippi: Geochronological study of the Whalen Group, Hartville Uplift southeast margin of Wyoming craton
Bonnell, Randall, Masters candidate at Colorado State University in Ft Collins: Constraining the depth of Dinwoody Glacier and its mass loss since 1958, Wind River Range, WY
Borel, Megan, PhD candidate at University of Florida: Pioneer Mountain fault characterization, chronology, and kinematics: insights to Idaho’s south-central extensional history
Brown, Haylie, Masters candidate at University of Northern Colorado: Developing Metrics and Protocols for Evaluating Restoration Success for the Front Range (Colorado) by Evaluating the Little Thompson River
Cole, Meredith, PhD candidate at University at Buffalo – SUNY: Caldera Vent Structures: Insights from Grizzly Peak Caldera, CO
Cotterell, Tracey, Masters candidate at Colorado State University in Ft Collins: The significance of breccias in sapphire mineralization in the Yogo dike, Montana
Frothingham, Michael, PhD candidate at University of Colorado in Boulder: Crystal- to Crustal-Scale Seismic Anisotropy of Continental Crust
Hovatter, Brody, Masters candidate at University of Washington: New earliest Torrejonian (To1) mammals from northeastern Montana, U.S.A.
Jeon, ‘Nehe’ Kyungho, PhD candidate at Texas A&M: Glacial-melt Floods in Colorado and Gunnison Rivers near Grand Mesa in the Quaternary?
LaDouceur, Blake, Masters candidate at University of Mississippi: The Significance of the Medicine Hat Block in the assembly of Laurentia: New Interpretations from Single-Grain Zircon Data
Lalor, Eve, Masters candidate at Western Washington University: Scaling of environmental responses to multiple Eocene global warming events
Lehman, Miranda, Masters candidate at Colorado School of Mines: Taking the tectonic pulse of Paleoproterozoic orogenesis: U–Th–Pb monazite geochronology of metasediments in the Colorado Front Range
McCarroll, Nicholas, Masters candidate at Utah State University: Evolution of the Book Cliffs dryland escarpment in eastern Utah – Establishing rates and testing models of escarpment retreat
Messa, Cole, PhD candidate at University of Wyoming: The Yellowstone Magmatic-Hydrothermal System: Using Radiogenic and Stable Isotopes to Constrain the Processes of Water-Rock Interaction
Podrecca, Luca, PhD candidate at Northwestern University: Investigating the sulfur isotope composition of sedimentary pyrite and its relation to sea level change in the Cretaceous of Colorado
Ridl, Shay, Masters candidate at New Mexico State University: Deciphering late-stage, Plio-early Pleistocene drainage evolution of the ancestral Rio Grande river in the southern RG rift, New Mexico
Smith, Kayla, Masters candidate at Utah State University: Meso- to Micro-scale Geologic Characterization of the Great Unconformity: implications for induced seismicity
Strey, Falyn, Masters candidate at University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee: Quartz CPO fabric development in the Willard thrust fault, UT
Wallace, Cory, Masters candidate at Colorado School of Mines: The dynamic cone penetrometer as a tool for predicting landslide runout
