Student Research Grants Awarded for 2022
The 2022 Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Committee was: Bruce Trudgill (Chair, 2021 President), Lisa Fisher (Secretary, 2011 President), Ned Sterne (President), James Paces, (Treasurer, 2020 President), and Cal Ruleman (President-Elect).
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, the George Snyder Fund, and the Bruce Bryant 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.
Seventeen proposals were received from BS, MS, and PhD students at fourteen different institutions.
A total of $14,863 was awarded to seventeen recipients at amounts ranging from $500 to $1000.
Grants were awarded to:
Luke Bassler, MS candidate at University of Idaho: Testing models of orogenic collapse in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains using stable isotope paleoaltimetry
Jessie Bersson, PhD candidate at Arizona State University: Secondary Explosion Pits on the Banco Bonito Rhyolite Lava Flow, Valles Caldera, New Mexico
Jordan Claytor, PhD candidate at University of Washington: Mammalian Ecology During the Post K-Pg Recovery Interval
Jie Geng, MS candidate at Baylor University: Reconstructing the pCO2 and climate record of the late Early Paleocene in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Xiaolin Han, PhD candidate at University of Kansas: Reconstruction of the sediment routings on High Plains in the Ogallala Formation
Mikelia Heberer, PhD candidate at University of Utah: An Investigation into Ontogenetic Shell Shape and Ornamentation Variation Among Juvenile Western Interior Seaway Scaphite Ammonoids in Eastern Montana and Central South Dakota
Chris Matson, PhD candidate at Colorado School of Mines: The timing and influence of massive volcanism during Ocean Anoxic Event 2 (OAE 2) in the Western Interior Sea
Cole Messa, PhD candidate at University of Wyoming: Basalts of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain: Constraining the Role of Basaltic Magmas in the Evolution of the Yellowstone Hotspot
Andrew Miller, PhD candidate at University of Wyoming: Applying geophysical and geochemical methods to understand the evolution of hydrothermal fluids in Yellowstone National Park
Lauren Miller, MS candidate at Colorado School of Mines: Landslide Analysis with Incomplete Data: Developing a Framework for Critical Parameter Estimation
Mustuque Munim, PhD candidate at Louisiana State University: Unraveling climatic variability in the Rocky Mountains during the Eocene- Oligocene transition: Reconstruction of paleoclimate and paleoecology models using different geochemical proxies
Rebecca Navarrette, BS candidate at The University of Texas at El Paso: Zebra Limestones: White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes?
Mateo Ospino Diaz, MS candidate at Loma Linda University: 3D geological animation based on physical and geochemical data of Box Spring Plutonic Complex, California.
Mollie Pope, MS candidate at University of Wyoming: Apatite as an indicator for water content in magmatic source regions
Cameron Reed, MS candidate at The University of New Mexico: Bedrock Incision History of the Rio Grande and Pecos River Systems of Northern New Mexico
Ethan Schneider, MS candidate at New Mexico State University: Constraining the Oligo-Miocene Transition from Endorheic (Closed Basin) Rift Sedimentation During the Earliest Stages of the Ancestral Rio Grande River, South-Central New Mexico
Chloë Weeks, MS candidate at University of Idaho: Apatite (U-Th)/He cooling dates from the Madison Range, southwest Montana and implications for exhumation driven by the Yellowstone hotspot
