Funded Projects: AGeS-Grad
2025 AGeS-Grad Awards: These projects were selected for funding but are incomplete due to the termination of our NSF award that supported the AGeS3 initiative on April 25, 2025
Information about the review process for the 2025 AGeS-Grad application cycle is in the 2025 AGeS Grad Review Context Statement.
| Student | Proposal Title | Institution | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmed Abdelrahman | The Zalingei Fold Belt, Sudan: Paleoproterozoic mobile belt or Neoproterozoic Suture Zone? | Oklahoma State University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Copeland Cromwell | Geochronologic and Stratigraphic Analyses of Beach Ridges in Northeast Florida as Proxies for Sea Level Change during the Holocene | University of Florida | Luminescence |
| Kate Drobnich | Testing a geomorphic mechanism for stalling of escarpment retreat using cosmogenic radionuclides and river grain size measurements. | Colorado State University | Cosmogenics |
| Kathleen Farr | Using geochronology and stable isotope geochemistry to determine the driver of climatic shifts on the Colorado Plateau throughout the Miocene | University of Idaho | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Jasmine Fridman | The Relationship Between North Atlantic Deep Marine Glauconite to Surrounding Miocene Sediment | Wesleyan University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Amy Hagen | Out with the old, in with the new: Constraining the pace of biotic turnover during the Cambrian Explosion as recorded in the Harkless Formation, NV | Virginia Tech | U-Th-Pb |
| Jayde Hirniak | Advancing tephrochronology as a dating method for archaeological deposits throughout South Africa | Arizona State University | Tephronchronology |
| Samantha Khatri | A Novel Archive for the Eocene–Oligocene Transition using Intercontinental Lacustrine Carbonates | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | U-Th-Pb |
| Caje Kindred Weigandt | Documenting the Cucamonga fault Incremental Slip Rate Record at Day Canyon, California: Implications for seismic risk to metropolitan Los Angeles | University of Southern California | Luminescence |
| Jon Krupnick | Influence of tectonism and drainage integration on 10Be and 36Cl terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide-derived catchment-averaged erosion rates, New Mexico | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | Cosmogenics |
| Bethan Lodge | Using radiocarbon to develop precise age models for modern, fast-growing tropical stalagmites | Vanderbilt University | Cosmogenics |
| Gwen Olivier | Using optically stimulated luminescence to reconstruct alluvial chronology relative to past human occupation in the Northern Jornada del Muerto Basin | Texas State University | Luminescence |
| Trap Puckette | Using 10Be exposure age dating of raised shorelines to provide new post-glacial relative sea-level constraints for NW Scotland | University of California, Santa Barbara | Cosmogenics |
| Cameron Reed | IRSL dating of Middle Pleistocene terraces to test models of Quaternary integration in the northern Río Grande system | The University of New Mexico | Luminescence |
| Marco Rodriguez | Timing and Trigger Mechanisms of the Buckeye Canyon Landslide, North of Yosemite National Park, CA | California State University, Fresno | Cosmogenics |
| Bjorn Springer | Does a late Ediacaran LIP coincide with the Shuram CIE?: Constraining the timing and duration of the Catoctin volcanics using CA-ID-TIMS geochronology | The Johns Hopkins University | U-Th-Pb |
| Iva Tomchovska | Argon-Argon Dating of Volcanic Ashes in a Biodiversity Hotspot: Advancing the Geochronology of Fossil-Bearing Strata and History of the Amazon Basin | California Institute of Technology | 40Ar/39Ar |
| William Wolfe | Ar/Ar Dating of Inter-sedimentary Lava Flows in the Paleogene Naran Bulak Fm, Mongolia: Calibrating the Asian Land Mammal Record & PETM Boundary | Colorado School of Mines | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Jannitta Yao | Investigating the geologic signatures of orogenic plateaus with garnet Sm-Nd dating and metamorphic petrochronology | Dartmouth College | Sm-Nd |
Information about the review process for the 2024 AGeS-Grad application cycle is in the 2024 AGeS-Grad Review Context Statement.
| Student | Proposal Title | Institution | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ayodele Anne Abayomi | Refining the chronostratigraphy of late-Quaternary Texas coastal sediments to examine climate controls on sediment flux | The University of Texas at Dallas | Luminescence |
| Nicole Aikin | Canyon Chronicles: Tracing Orogenic Construction through Garnet Geochronology | University of Washington | Lu-Hf, Sm-Nd, Rb-Sr, Pb-Pb |
| Yuly Paola Rave Bonilla | Newly identified monogenetic volcanoes in Antioquia, Colombia: the possibly northernmost monogenetic volcanic field of Andes Cordillera. | University of South Florida | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Hannah Cothren | Developing a high-precision age model for the appearance of animal-life in Newfoundland, Canada | University of Washington | U-Th-Pb |
| Ella Davis | Timing of Metamorphism and Deformation in the Southern Extent of the Northern Highlands Terrane, Scotland | Virginia Tech | U-Th-Pb |
| Aniket Dhar | Speleothem Growth Dynamics in Stalagmites from Belum Caves, Southern India across Marine Isotope Stages 6-10 | University of Arizona | U-Th-Pb, Q |
| Anthony Fuentes | Towards Resolving the Red Bed Controversy: Developing the Capacity for Detrital Hematite U/Pb Geochronology | University of California Berkeley | U-Th-Pb, Sed |
| Adit Ghosh | Investigation of soil erosion rates in the Channel Islands to quantify a baseline to underpin soil sustainability studies in Southern California | University of Southern California | Cosmogenics |
| Mikala Hammer | 40Ar/39Ar dating of cryptomelane to constrain manganese enrichment in the Emily Deposit, Cuyuna Range, Minnesota | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Kristen Hashberger | Stratigraphy and Provenance of the Baca Formation in the Baca and Carthage-La Joya Basins, Central New Mexico | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | U-Th-Pb, Sed |
| Cassandra Kenyon | OSL provenance in Colombia’s Magdalena Valley: shedding light onto Eastern Cordilleran uplift and development of the Magdalena River | University of Oklahoma | Luminescence |
| Elisha Miller | How Do Surficial Processes Influence Rift Evolution? Rates of Uplift and Erosion from Lake Tanganyika | University of Oklahoma | Cosmogenics |
| Kabir Mohammed | Tonian flasks: the age of a key microfossil assemblage from southern Kazakhstan and implications for Neoproterozoic eukaryote radiation | Johns Hopkins University | Re-Os |
| Keanu Montanez | Assessing the timing and degree of contact metamorphism in the Funeral Mountains | Northern Illinois University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Emma Morrison | Can U-Pb zircon geochronology on gabbro intrusions in Timor Leste distinguish whether they are part of an ophiolite or from pre-collisional rifting? | Brigham Young University | U-Th-Pb |
| Jada Nimblett | Geohazards associated with the Platanar-Porvenir volcanoes, Alajuela, Costa Rica. | Georgia State University | Cosmogenics |
| Bailey Nordin | Targeting changes in sedimentation across a warming Arctic periglacial fan using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating | Dartmouth College | Luminescence, Q/Sed |
| Aurora Rosenberger | Investigating temporal connections between normal faulting, ductile stretching, and detachment faulting in the Snake Range core complex, Nevada | Washington State University | (U-Th)/He |
| Supratik Roy | Interrogating timescales of regional metamorphism during Phanerozoic v. Paleoproterozoic orogenesis | Johns Hopkins University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Rachel So | A U-Th chronology of evaporites in a hypersaline lake: Constraining lake level history at Great Salt Lake over glacial cycles of the last 280 ky | University of Southern California | U-series, Lakes |
| Anna Strickland | Petrochronology of enigmatic metatrondhjemite and restite blocks enclosed in subduction melanges: Insights into potential fossilized slab melts | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | U-Th-Pb |
| Zachary Walton | Alteration in Ultramafic Lamprophyres and its Control on Rare Earth Element Distribution in Western Kentucky | University of Kentucky | U-Th-Pb |
Information about the review process for the 2023 AGeS-Grad application cycle is in the 2023 AGeS-Grad Review Context Statement.
| Student | Proposal Title | Institution | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khawaja Ahad Javed | Is there a temporal relationship between the intrusion of Mount Hajdukovich pluton and Granite Mountain pluton of the Eastern Alaska Range? | University of Alaska Fairbanks | U-Pb |
| Jonathan Anaya | Detrital Thermochronology of Mesozoic Strata in the Mongolian Altai: Implications of Inherited Structures for Intracontinental Deformation | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | (U-Th)/He |
| Tristan Bench | X-Ray Mapping for Enhancing Luminescence Surface Exposure Dating Scanning Techniques | University of Washington, Seattle | X-ray mapping for luminescence study |
| John Brigham | Can Sm-Nd garnet geochronology on rodingites hosted in serpentinite constrain the timing of serpentinization in the northern Appalachian Mountains? | Syracuse University | Sm-Nd |
| Cole Cochran | Dating Geomorphic Surfaces to Constrain the Timescale of Carbon Cycling in a Permafrost River System | University of Colorado Boulder | Luminescence |
| Samantha Dunn | LASS-ICPMS zircon petrochronology to investigate the connection between the Jackass Lakes pluton and adjacent porphyry and metavolcanic rocks | California State University Fullerton | U-Pb |
| Helbert Garcia | Unraveling the response of low-latitude tropical mountains to Pleistocene climate change | Syracuse University | Cosmogenics |
| Megan Gillen | Geomorphological Evolution of the Provincetown Hook, Cape Cod, Massachusetts | MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science & Engineering | Luminescence |
| Benjamin Guerrero | Revealing the contribution of climate to hillslope processes using the 14C-10Be cosmogenic nuclide pair in the western Central Andes (30-36°S) | Syracuse University | Cosmogenics |
| Abdullah Ibrahim | Unravelling the nature and origin of the active tectonic pulses in the failed Suez rift, Egypt | Western Michigan University | Luminescence |
| Jordan Jensen | Developing a new approach to date <1 Ma fault slip using paired U-series disequilibrium and (U-Th)/He analyses of hematite | Utah State University | U-series |
| Joshua Lee | Quantifying the relationship between soil production and weathering of underlying bedrock | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | Cosmogenics |
| Yvonne Leon | Slip rate and hazard potential of the Long Valley fault near Mammoth, California | University of California, Davis | Cosmogenics |
| Payton McCain | Thermal History of the Western Cordilleran Fold-Thrust Belt, southern Peru: implications for incision of one of Earth's deepest canyons | Texas A&M University | (U-Th)/He |
| Sierra Rack | Timing and Paleogeography of Mesozoic Arc Accretion in the Northern Sierra Nevada | University of California, Davis | U-Pb |
| Rachel Renne | As old as the hills? Investigating the age and duration of small-scale microtopography in big sagebrush ecosystems | Yale | Luminescence |
| Zena Robert | Constraining the Timing of Primary Loess Deposition and Geomorphic Processes on Permafrost-Rich Hillslopes in Interior Alaska | Montana State University | Luminescence |
| Nicole Salladin | Applying Detrital Zircon and Sanidine Dating to Constrain Early Eocene Chronostratigraphy and Provenance Trends in the Southeastern San Juan Basin | New Mexico State University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Victoria Todd | A Multi-proxy Investigation of Tropical Climate Variability ca. 200 ka | The University of Texas at Austin | Luminescence |
| Caleb Walcott | Luminescence rock surface dating as a novel tool to reconstruct Greenland Ice Sheet history across multiple timescales | University at Buffalo | Luminescence |
| Sarah Wells-Hull | Unraveling the timing and origin of enigmatic extensional faults in an ancient convergent orogen, western North Carolina | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Yiming Zhang | Dating the Grenville Loop using U-Pb apatite thermochronology | University of California, Berkeley | U-Pb |
Information about the review process for the 2021 AGeS-Grad application cycle is in the 2021 AGeS-Grad Review Context Statement.
| Student | Proposal Title | Institution | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryce Belanger | Dating climatic shifts during past warm periods: Building a U-series chronology for a Last Interglacial speleothem | Vanderbilt University | U-series |
| Austin Carter | A novel 234U/238U folding verification technique applied to an ice core from the Allan Hills, Antarctica | University of California - San Diego | U-series |
| Rebecca Goughnour | Quantifying the duration of magma flow through two Columbia River Flood Basalt dikes using the biotite Ar thermochronometer | Idaho State University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Anselm Krause | Uplift Patterns of Marine Terraces, Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand: A Catalog of Subduction Driven Surface Deformation | California Polytechnic State University, Pomona | Luminescence |
| Aubrey LaPlante | Feldspar IRSL dating of Late Holocene earthquakes in the transfer zone between the Panamint and Ash Hill faults, Eastern California Shear Zone | Northern Arizona University | Luminescence |
| Kurt Lindberg | Improving Holocene chronologies for macrofossil-poor Baffin Island lake sediments using ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating | University at Buffalo | Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating |
| Andre Mere | Rock avalanches in a semi-arid orogen: spatiotemporal insight provided by 10Be exposure ages in the San Gabriel Mountains, California | University of California, Riverside | Cosmogenics |
| Nicholas Meszaros | Eruption Tempos of Fayalite and Biotite Rhyolites at Valles Caldera, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico: Implications for Current Magmatic Quiescence | The University of Texas at Austin | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Shanti Penprase | Signals of environmental and human-driven change in catchment-averaged paleoerosion and terrace formation in the Whitewater River Basin, SE Minnesota | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | Cosmogenics |
| Brian Penserini | Testing Multiple Working Hypotheses for Large-Scale Capture Events using low-T Thermochronometry, Sutlej River, western Himalaya | University of California Santa Barbara | (U-Th)/He |
| Julianne Scamardo | Sediment storage as a driver of floodplain geomorphic heterogeneity in ephemeral watersheds across the Southwest U.S. | Colorado State University | Luminescence |
| Jack Simmons | Evaluating exotic vs. endemic paleogeographic models for Late Jurassic terranes in the western Sierra Nevada, California | University of North Carolina Wilmington | U-Th-Pb |
| Sianin Spaur | The hydroclimate response to warming in the southwestern US across the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum. | Colorado State University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Haley Thoresen | Eocene Basin Record of Metamorphic Core Complex Exhumation in the Western United States Cordillera | University of Idaho | (U-Th)/He |
Information about the review process for the 2020 AGeS-Grad application cycle is in the 2020 AGeS-Grad Review Context Statement.
| Student | Proposal Title | Institution | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erin Bessette-Kirton | Birth of a bridge: Cosmogenic nuclide depth profile dating of fluvial terraces to determine the formation age of Rainbow Bridge, Utah | University of Utah | Cosmogenics |
| Xenia Boyes | Dating the Onset of the Iceland Plume: 40Ar/39Ar chronology of Baffin Island Basalts | California Institute of Technology | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Eric Brown | TESTING POTENTIAL TRIGGERING MECHANISMS OF LARGE HOLOCENE ROCK AVALANCHES, WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON, USA | Western Washington University | Cosmogenics |
| Genna Chiaro | Reassessing a Supereruption: Investigating the Eruptive Tempo of the Ora Ignimbrites (Permian, Italy) with High-Precision 40Ar/39Ar Sanidine Ages | Vanderbilt University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Lisa Duong | Temporal-geochemical transition of Miocene-Quaternary magmatism towards continental characteristics at Cerro Chirripo National Park, Costa Rica | Georgia State University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Sarah Giles | Ediacaran detrital zircon provenance in South Australia: Implications for the age of the Shuram excursion and Ediacaran paleogeographic reorganization | Columbia University | U-Th-Pb |
| Daianne Hofig | Age Linking Middle Miocene and Anthropocene climates: novel insights from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology | Texas A&M University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Allison Huisa | Understanding Silicic Magma Storage Using 238U-230Th Dating of Zircon and Chevkinites in a Dominantly Mafic Intracontinental Volcanic Setting | Northern Arizona University | U-Th-Pb |
| Chantel Jensen | Does forearc erosion mirror short-term megathrust earthquake cycle deformation? | Western Washington University | Cosmogenics |
| Mary Lonsdale | Temporally calibrating an early eukaryotic fossil assemblage with U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS zircon ages | Johns Hopkins University | U-Th-Pb |
| Logan Mahoney | Surficial and Geomorphic history of Reynolds Creek, Idaho | Idaho State University | U-Th-Pb |
| Eyal Marder | Testing tectonic and climatic drivers of transient landscape evolution in the Colorado Front Range using river profile analysis and 10Be erosion rates | Colorado State University | Cosmogenics |
| Lyle Nelson | Radiometrically dating the Great Unconformity and the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary as expressed in the Death Valley region | Johns Hopkins University | U-Th-Pb |
| Oyewande Ojo | Thermotectonic history as recorded in footwall blocks of the S. Malawi Rift and N. Shire Graben border faults: Insights from apatite fission tracks | Oklahoma State University, Stillwater | Fission Track |
| Nicolas Perez-Consuegra | Using apatite 4He/3He and U-Th/He thermochronology to unravel the timing and mechanism of incision of the Cauca River Canyon in the Northern Andes | Syracuse University | (U-Th)/He |
| Elizabeth Patterson | Reconstructing precipitation variability in Mainland Southeast Asia over the last 20,000 years using stalagmites | University of California, Irvine | U-series |
| Valarie J Smith | Timing of the onset of accretionary orogenesis and metamorphism following ~ 100 m.y. of a passive margin setting in the southern Appalachian orogen | Florida State University | U-series |
| Elaine Young | Characterizing the rapid uplift and exhumation of the Fish Creek Vallecito basin, southeastern California | University of California, Davis | (U-Th)/He |
Information about the review process for the 2019 AGeS-Grad application cycle is in the 2019 AGeS-Grad Review Context Statement.
| Student | Proposal Title | Institution | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francisco Apen | Developing apatite petrochronology through high-precision ID-TIMS | University of California, Santa Barbara | U-Pb, Sr, Nd |
| Joseph Biasi | Alteration of the Columbia River Basalts: Implications for 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology | California Institute of Technology | Ar |
| Tarryn Cawood | Structural Controls and Timing of Mineralization in the Oro Cruz Gold Deposit, SE California | University of Southern California | Re-Os |
| Johanna Eidmann | Evaluating how reforestation and hurricanes affect landsliding, erosion, and reservoir sedimentation | Colorado State University | CRNs |
| Karol Faehnrich | 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Kaltag-Porcupine fault system of Yukon and Alaska | Dartmouth College | Ar |
| Joel Gombiner | Age of Moses Coulee glacial outburst flood gravels through U-series dating of calcite cements | University of Washington | U-series |
| Lisa Grohn | Crystallization and eruption history of ultramafic lower-crustal xenoliths in the north Andean arc | University of Rochester | U-Pb |
| David Hernandez Uribe | Tracking the spatio-temporal evolution of the subducted Farallon oceanic slab beneath the Colorado Plateau | Colorado School of Mines | Lu-Hf |
| Ellen Lamont | Evaluating Late Cenozoic Mountain Range Evolution in India's Himalayan Fold-and-Thrust Belt | Oregon State University | (U-Th)/He |
| Drew Levy | Assessing the contribution of Jurassic crustal thickening to growth of the Cretaceous Nevadaplano | University of Nevada Reno | Ar |
| Madeline Lewis | Timing of Mafic Intrusions Relative to Granitic Pluton Emplacement in the Sierra Nevada Batholith | California Institute of Technology | U-Pb |
| Craig Martin | Detrital zircon geochronology of sediment from the Shyok suture zone in Ladakh, India | MIT | Detrital zircon |
| Kirsty McKenzie | Quantifying differential uplift of the Yaquina Bay Fault, Oregon using OSL of marine terrace sands | Pennsylvania State University | OSL |
| Nikolas Midttun | Relating strain localization during post-orogenic collapse to inherited crustal structure in the northern Basin and Range province | University of Michigan | Fission track |
| Erin Peck | Rate of accommodation space filling following the 1700 earthquake in an Oregon estuary | Oregon State University | 14C |
| Logan Powell | Zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry: Evidence for the ~1.4 Ga Picuris orogeny | Colorado School of Mines | U-Pb |
| Maria Alejandra Rodriguez Mustafa | Timing of mineralization in the Candelaria deposit, Chile: Implications for the IOA-IOCG continuum | University of Michigan | Ar |
| Jennifer Thines | Petrogenesis of Afro-Arabian large-volume silicic magmas revealed by U-Pb zircon geochronology | University of Iowa | U-Pb |
| Kirk Townsend | Linking long-term patterns of rock uplift to short-term fault kinematics and seismic hazards | University of Michigan | CRNs |
| Karissa Vermillion | Spatial and temporal variations in voluminous caldera volcanism in southern New Mexico | New Mexico State University | Ar |
| Student | Proposal Title | Institution | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emery Anderson-Merritt | Bracketing slip rates on the Mojave San Andreas using feldspar IRSL luminescence dating | UC Davis | Feldspar IRSL Luminescence |
| Snir Attia | Constructing an improved geochemical record of Mesozoic Sierra Nevada volcanism to test models of arc tempos | USC | U-Pb (LASS-ICPMS) |
| Katherine Guns | Strain Drain along the Southern San Andreas Fault: Investigating possible strain transfer though faults of the Eastern Transverse Ranges, Joshua Tree National Park, CA | University of Arizona | 10Be CRN |
| Brendon Quirk | Assessing the possible coseismic nature of paleo-rock avalanches in the intermountain seismic belt, Utah | University of Utah | 10Be & 36Cl CRN |
| Maya Stokes | Role of river capture in retreat of the Blue Ridge Escarpment | MIT | 10Be & 26Al CRN |
| Kellie Wall | Timing of Eruption Relative to Magma Crystallization during the Life of an Arc Volcano | Oregon State University | U-Pb (SHRIMP) |
| Student | Proposal Title | Institution | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alyssa Abbey | Arkansas River development and late Cenozoic exhumation in the southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado. | University of Michigan | Detrital U-Th-Pb |
| James Chapman | Zircon δ18O Trends in Cordilleran Magmatism in the Western U.S. and the Relationship to Mantle Lithosphere Geodynamics | University of Arizona | zircon U-Pb geochronology and zircon δ18O isotope geochemistry |
| Jeremy Cordova | Pressure-temperature-time evolution of the Easton terrane, North Cascades, Washington State: the record of subduction initiation. | Western Washington University | 40Ar/39Ar |
| Luke Fairchild | Constraining rapid paleogeographic change in the Mesoproterozoic as recorded by the North American Midcontinent Rift | University of California, Berkeley | U-Pb (TIMS) |
| Emilie Gentry | In situ U-(Th-)Pb LA-ICP-MS analysis of monazite in high-strain zones to test the extent and origin of the Norumbega fault system in the New England Appalachians, a San Andreas-type fault system. | Colorado School of Mines | U-(Th-)Pb LA-ICP-MS |
| Benjamin Klein | A detrital zircon study of metasediments in lower arc crust in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Detrital U-Th-Pb |
| James Mauch | Quantifying active salt deformation in Spanish Valley, UT, utilizing a chronostratigraphy of offset stream terraces | Utah State University | cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) 10Be-26Al isochron burial dating |
| Alexander Morelan | Alluvial Fan Morphology Along Faulted Range Fronts as a Recorder of Slip Rate | University of California, Davis | 10Be CRN |
| Matthew Morris | Thermochronometric constraints on the age of Hells Canyon, testing lithospheric foundering in NE Oregon. | University of Oregon | (U-Th)/He |
| Student | Proposal Title | Institution | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mariana Bonich | Developing novel methods to link source rock to sediment sink: overcoming the 'stepladder effect' | Syracuse University | (U-Th)/He |
| Aaron Bufe | Investigating deformation in the wake of the Yellowstone hotspot using markers along the Snake River | University of California Santa Barbara | Luminescence |
| Jaime Delano | Understanding earthquake-cycle contributions to uplift and incision of the southern Olympic Mountains, WA | Western Washington University | Luminescence |
| Shelby Fredrickson | A geomorphic investigation of the tectonic transition between the Santa Barbara and Ventura folds belts near Rincon Point, California | University of California Santa Barbara | Luminescence |
| Victor Guevara | Durations and rates of Archean high temperature metamorphic implications for continental stabilization and early Earth tectonics | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | U-Pb TIMS |
| Sean Kinney | Re-evaluating the White Mountain magma series through high-precision zircon U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry | Columbia University | U-Pb TIMS |
| Stephen Nguyen | Is there evidence in the magmatic record from a high-standing plateau in the Great Basin? | Texas Tech University | U-Pb LA-ICP-MS |
| Barbara Ratschbacher | Timescales of shallow-level pluton construction via fractionation and crystal-melt separation - implications for the volcanic-plutonic connection and upper crustal differentiation | University of Southern California | U-Pb TIMS |
| Trevor Waldien | Neogene deformation at a Mesozoic terrane margin in the eastern Alaska Range, Alaska | University of California, Davis | (U-Th)/He |
| Randolph Williams | Dating using the diagenetic record of the earthquake cycle, Loma Blanca Fault Zone, Socorro Basin, NM | University of Wisconsin - Madison | U-series |