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SECTION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH GRANTS 2018 Research Grant Recipients
Rocky Mountain Section Undergraduate Research Grants Samantha McComb, State University of New York at Potsdam
Andrew Del Turco, Stockton University Rebecca Nathan, Hartwick College
Michael Ferraro, Utah State University Telemak Olsen, Skidmore College
Corey Flynn, University of Colorado Boulder Melinda Quock, University of Vermont
Jacob Hooker, University of Northern Colorado Nathan Smail, Skidmore College
Lauren Miller, Colorado School of Mines Benjamin Teerlinck, University of Connecticut
Evan Millsap, Utah State University Frank Tetto, Lehigh University
North-Central Section Undergraduate Research Grants Hannah Tompkins, Rochester University
Vanessa Bump, University of Indianapolis Ellen Weber, Wilkes University
Nancy A. Duque, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee South-Central Section Undergraduate Research Grants
Duncan Glasford, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Asmara Lehrmann, Trinity University
Laura Taylor, University of Houston
Geoffrey Montour, University of Iowa
David Rogers, Missouri University of Science & Technology Southeastern Section Undergraduate Research Grants
Nicholas Bentley, Florida State University
Northeastern Section Stephen G. Pollock Undergraduate Nikita Kepezhinskas, University of Florida
Research Grants
GSA International
Morgan Balliet, Wilkes University Farouk El-Baz Student Research Grants
Jake Bernstein, Bryn Mawr College Mary Barlow, University of Houston for “Impact
Kendra Bonsey and Allison Curley, Dickinson College of Climate Change on Channel Geomorphology
Patrick Fennelly, State University of New York at Buffalo
Sean Frangos, Villanova University in Hyper-Arid Polar Desert.”
Audrey Rader, University of Nevada–Las Vegas for
Joshua Foust, Wilkes University “Restoration of Ecological Functions of Soils and Vegetation in
Colin Griffin, State University of New York at Buffalo
Kayla Hollister, State University of New York at Buffalo the Mojave-Sonoran Ecotone.”
Caroline Hung, Williams College–Mystic This grant is to encourage and support desert studies
by students worldwide either in their senior year
of their undergraduate studies, or at the master’s or Ph.D. level.
2018 Cole Awards
The Gladys W. Cole and W. Storrs Cole Memorial Awards for W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Fund
postdoctoral research are funded by the GSA Foundation. Dorothy Pak, Marine Science Institute of the University of
California Santa Barbara, will be awarded US$6500 from the
Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award W. Storrs Cole Fund for research in invertebrate micropaleontol-
Joan Florsheim, University of California, Santa Barbara, will be ogy for the project, “Reconstructing North Pacific Ecosystem
awarded US$7,000 from the Gladys W. Cole Fund for research in Response to Climate Transitions of the Past 2000 Years Using
geomorphology of semiarid and arid terrains for her project, Foraminiferal Proxies.” The award will be presented at the
“Quantification of Geomorphic Disturbance and Recovery Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research award cere-
Following Wildfire.” The award will be presented at the mony at the 2018 GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana,
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Awards USA, on Tuesday, 6 Nov.
Ceremony at the 2018 GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis,
Indiana, USA, on Tuesday, 6 Nov.
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