Funded Projects: AGeS-Grad

2024 AGeS-Grad Awards

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

2023 AGeS-Grad Awards

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

2021 AGeS-Grad Awards

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

2020 AGeS-Grad Awards

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

2019 AGeS-Grad Awards

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

2017 AGeS-Grad Awards

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)

2016 AGeS-Grad Awards

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

2015 AGeS-Grad Awards

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

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