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2020 GSA International, GSA Division, and

GSA Section Student Research Grants

GSA International, GSA Divisions, and GSA Sections have recognized the following student research grant
recipients who submitted proposals of exceptionally high merit in conception and presentation in their fields.

GSA International Graduate Student Research Grants

Farouk El-Baz Student Research Grants
Harriet Cornachione, Utah State University
Howard Head, University of Cape Town
This grant is to encourage and support desert studies by students world-wide either
in their senior year of their undergraduate studies or at the master’s or Ph.D. level.

Division Graduate Student Research Grants

Continental Scientific Drilling Division Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division
Continental Scientific Drilling Division Student Research Grant Peter Birkeland Soil Geomorphology Research Award
Kaitlyn Crouch, Utah State University Jason Windingstad, Illinois State University
Hannah Hartley, University of Utah Denton, Andrews, Porter Glacial Geology Award
Erdoo Mongol, Missouri University of Science and Technology Gryphen Goss, University of Calgary
Alex Washburn, Texas Tech University Arthur D. Howard Student Research Award
Edward Fordham, Western Washington University
Geoinformatics & Data Science Division J. Hoover Mackin Student Research Award
Geoinformatics & Data Science Division Student Research Grant Celeste Wieting*, Colorado State University
Karelia La Marca, University of Oklahoma Marie Morisawa Research Award
James Robinson, Western Washington University Joanmarie Del Vecchio, Pennsylvania State University
Shaparak Salek, California State University, Northridge Stanley A. Schumm Research Grant Award
William Swanson*, University of Kansas Alyssa DeMott, Central Washington University
Thuy Trang Vo, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Binqian Yin, University of Texas at Arlington Sedimentary Geology Division
Sedimentary Geology Division Student Research Grant Award
Geophysics & Geodynamics Division Jessica Raff, Vanderbilt University
Allan V. Cox Research Award and Supplement
Brandon Chase, University of Alberta Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
Geophysics Student Research Grant Award and Supplement Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Student Research
Jeng Hann Chong, California State University, Northridge Travel Grant Awards
Emma Armstrong, Utah State University
Hydrogeology Division Samuel Bold, Humboldt State University
Hydrogeology Division Student Research Grant Awards Michael Braunagel, The Ohio State University
William Andrews, Illinois State University Daniel Colwell, University of Wyoming
Julia Cantelon, Dalhousie University Alexandra DiMonte, Utah State University
Jacob Clyne, The Ohio State University Emma Heitmann, University of Washington
Jihyun Kim, University of Arizona Valeria Jaramillo Hernandez, University of California,
Kyungwon Kwak, Texas A&M University Los Angeles
Shashank Khatri, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, Daniel Ruiz, University of Texas at Austin
and Volcanology Division Mackenzie Wegmann, Northern Illinois University
James B. Thompson Jr. Graduate Student Research Grant
in Metamorphic Petrology and Geochemistry
Natashia Drage, Dalhousie University
Jacob Forshaw, University of Calgary
Christopher Schuler, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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