Student Research Grants Awarded for 2020
Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee: Tom Casadevall (chair), Lisa Fisher, Marith Reheis, Bruce Trudgill, Scott Minor, and Jim Paces
Total grants awarded: $14,207
Grants awarded to:
- Wakil Balumi, PhD candidate at Oklahoma State University: Investigation of Temporal and Spatial Changes in Paleoredox Conditions During Global Ocean Anoxic Events within the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Colorado
- Jordan Claytor, PhD candidate at University of Washington: The Ecological Recovery of Mammals in the Aftermath of the K-Pg Mass Extinction
- Matthew Ettsen, MS candidate at University of Northern Colorado: Nature and Timing of Partial Melt and Deformation in the Big Thompson Metamorphic Suite
- Connor Frederickson, MS candidate at Utah State University: Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Iron Oxides in Moab, UT
- Michael Frothingham, PhD candidate at University of Colorado: Magmatic fabrics and their contribution to continental crustal seismic anisotropy
- Molly Guiney, MS candidate at University of Colorado: Assessing the role of basin morphology and disturbance history on floodplain large wood deposition in the Colorado Front Range
- Alison Hafner, MS candidate at Utah State University: Fault and fracture network behavior in a fluid-gas system: Analysis of fluid flow in natural CO2 reservoirs, Salt Wash Graben, UT
- Rachel Havranek, PhD candidate at University of Colorado: What controls carbonate formation in fine-grained soils?
- Brandon Levenstein, PhD candidate at University of Arizona: Geochronologic and Paleoclimate Study of a Paleo-weathered Surface in the Colorado Front Range
- Lameck Maninji, PhD candidate at Colorado State University: An Assessment of Cu Porphyry Vectoring Techniques in Composite Porphyry Stockwork – Epithermal Vein Swarm Overprints: Case Study on Buried Ruby Cu Porphyry and Butte Cu Porphyry, SW Montana, USA.
- Julia McIntosh, PhD candidate at Southern Methodist University: A paleolatitudinal study of the Permian-Triassic: an initial assessment of the global paleoclimate using phyllosilicates from paleosols
- Jennifer Murdock, MS candidate at University of Denver: Delimiting the Transcontinental Arch of the Rocky Mountain Region Using GIS-Based Contour Mapping
- Rebekah Parks, MS candidate at Colorado School of Mines: Geologic Reservoir Characterization of the Shannon Sandstone near Pine Tree Field, Southwestern Powder River Basin, Wyoming
- Tomsen Reed, MS candidate at Utah State University: Hazard Analysis of a Segment of Highway SR-12 through Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
- Savannah Rice, MS candidate at Colorado School of Mines: The Influence of Pennyslvanian-Triassic Salt Tectonics on Laramide Shortening in Central Colorado: A New Tectonic Model
- Calen Rubin, MS candidate at University of New Hampshire: Cosmogenic 10Be dating of terminal moraines in the Beartooth Mountains to evaluate glacier responses in greater Yellowstone during the last two glaciations
- Jens Christoph Suhr, MS candidate at Colorado State University: Post-Glacial Alluvial Dynamics of the South Fork Cache la Poudre River Valley
- Patrick Sullivan, MS candidate at Colorado School of Mines: Regional Stratigraphy, Source Rock Characterization, and Geochronology of the Skull Creek-Thermopolis Formation, Powder River and Denver Basins
- Grace Sutherland, MS candidate at Western Washington University: Thresholds in fluvial response to ancient global warming events in the southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A.
- Natalie Tanski, MS candidate at Utah State University: Tracking transient incision along the Colorado River in the Canyonlands region using luminescence and 36Cl/10Be burial dating techniques
