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2020 AGeS2 (Awards for Geochronology

Student Research2) Grants

AGeS offers opportunities for graduate students to develop the the meeting. For more information, see the AGeS2 homepage:
scientific rationale for projects involving geochronology and then www.geosociety.org/ages. The AGeS2 program is supported by
provides them with hands-on experience acquiring data in labs, all the National Science Foundation under the following awards:
while being mentored by geochronologists. This grants program is EAR-1759200, EAR-1759353, and EAR-1759201.
available to GSA student members and is separate from, but com-
plementary to, GSA’s longstanding Graduate Student Research
Grants program. In 2020, 69 students submitted proposals, and
awards were made to 18 students. The average award amount was
US$8,364. These AGeS2 awardees will participate in teleconfer-
ences with the cohort of funded AGeS students over a two-year
interval. Each awardee will also receive an additional US$500 to
attend an AGeS cohort workshop preceding the 2021 or 2022 GSA
Annual Meeting, and will be encouraged to present their results at

STUDENT PROPOSAL TITLE INSTITUTION TECHNIQUE
Birth of a Bridge: Cosmogenic Nuclide Depth Profile
Erin Bessette-Kirton Dating of Fluvial Terraces to Determine the Formation University of Utah Cosmogenics
Age of Rainbow Bridge, Utah
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Xenia Boyes Dating the onset of the Iceland plume: Ar/ Ar California Institute of 40 Ar/ Ar
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chronology of Baffin Island basalts Technology
Testing Potential Triggering Mechanisms of Large Western Washington
Eric Brown Holocene Rock Avalanches, Whatcom County, University Cosmogenics
Washington, USA
Reassessing a Supereruption: Investigating the
Genna Chiaro Eruptive Tempo of the Ora Ignimbrites (Permian, Vanderbilt University 40 Ar/ Ar
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Italy) with High-Precision Ar/ Ar Sanidine Ages
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Temporal-Geochemical Transition of Miocene-
Quaternary Magmatism Towards Continental
Lisa Duong Georgia State University 40 Ar/ Ar
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Characteristics at Cerro Chirripo National Park,
Costa Rica
Ediacaran Detrital Zircon Provenance in South
Australia: Implications for the Age of the Shuram
Sarah Giles Columbia University U-Th-Pb
Excursion and Ediacaran Paleogeographic
Reorganization
Age Linking Middle Miocene and Anthropocene
Daianne Hofig Texas A&M University 40 Ar/ Ar
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climates: Novel Insights from Ar/ Ar geochronology
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Understanding Silicic Magma Storage Using U- Th
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Allison Huisa Dating of Zircon and Chevkinites in a Dominantly Northern Arizona University U-Th-Pb
Mafic Intracontinental Volcanic Setting
Does Forearc Erosion Mirror Short-Term Megathrust Western Washington
Chantel Jensen Cosmogenics
Earthquake Cycle Deformation? University
Temporally Calibrating an Early Eukaryotic Fossil
Mary Lonsdale Johns Hopkins University U-Th-Pb
Assemblage with U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS Zircon Ages
Surficial and Geomorphic History of Reynolds Creek,
Logan Mahoney Idaho State University U-Th-Pb
Idaho
Testing Tectonic and Climatic Drivers of Transient
Eyal Marder Landscape Evolution in the Colorado Front Range Colorado State University Cosmogenics
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Using River Profile Analysis and Be Erosion Rates
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