Student Awards, 2004

Since 1993 the North-Central Section has provided grant awards for undergraduate research projects. Research proposals are evaluated competitively. To provide further recognition to the award recipients and to provide encouragement for further participation, the Section Management Board is posting a list of the 2004 award recipients. The number of awards may vary from year to year depending upon the funding available from the Section Treasury.

Erik Gulbranson
Dr. Timothy Demko
Department of Geosciences University of Minnesota Duluth
“Paleoenvironmental and Diagenetic History of Palustrine Carbonates and Calcretes: Triassic Chinle Formation and Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation”

Eric Shullenberger
Drs. Jason Rech and Brian Currie
Department of Geology Miami University
“Paleoclimatic Implications of Late Neogene Carbonates: Atacama Desert, Chile”

Jeremy Treague
Dr. Harry Jol
Department of Geography and Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
“A Geoarchaeological Investigation for an 1805 Lewis and Clark Site, Coastal Oregon”

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For many years the North-Central Section has provided various awards and grants to students to encourage their participation in Section meetings and to reward their high quality efforts in preparing and presenting papers or posters. The Section plays a vital role in aiding the development of tomorrow’s leaders. To provide further recognition to the award and grant recipients and to provide encouragement for further participation, the Section Management Board is posting this list of 2005 recipients. The number of awards and grants varies from year to year depending upon the funding available from the Section Treasury.

2004 Meeting: St. Louis, Missouri

Recipients of "Outstanding Paper and Poster Awards" and "Book Awards"

Jeremy Haynes
University of Missouri Kansas City
"Ground-Rupturing Earthquakes at the Archaeological Site of Qasr Tilah, Dead Sea Transform, Jordan" (Paper)

Susan Klosterman
Wright State University
"Phylogenetic Analysis of the Orthograptinae (Early Late Ordovician Graptolithina)" (Paper)

Steven Kroll
Northern Illinois University
"Effects of Fuel Oxygenates on BTEX in Undisturbed Columns of Fine-Grained Materials" (Poster)

Rebecca Hamilton
University of Cincinnati
"Channel Development of Supraglacial Streams in Clean Ice: Implications for Understanding Bedrock-Channel Formation" (Poster)

Ryan Bresnahan
University of Memphis
"Denudation of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Upland Gravel in the Upper Mississippi Embayment and its Structural Implications" (Book Award)

Marshall Lake
Southern Illinois University
"Georadar Profile Studies of Quaternary Deformation Associated with the Farrenburg and Commerce Geophysical Lineaments in the New Madrid Seismic Zone" (Book Award)

David Schmidt
The Ohio State University
"Search for Micribial Carbonates in the Silurian of the Cincinnati Arch Region" (Book Award)

Recipients of Travel Grants (For GSA Student Members and Associates) - Provided by the GSA North-Central Section and the GSA Foundation

2004 Section Meeting at St. Louis, Missouri

• Central Michigan University—Brandi Boyd Eastern Illinois University—Kaitlin McCormick
• Grand Valley State University—Jonathan Strark
• Illinois State University—Hari Regupathy IPFW—Chris Zollinger
• Lake Superior State University—Dan LaPorte, Kimberley Montague
• Murray State University—Joseph Lambrix
• Muskingum College—William Carlson, Vaugh Kushner
• The Ohio State University—Bradley Cramer, Kate Tierney, Matthew Williams
• Southern Illinois University—Abani Samal
• University of Akron—Kelly Shultz
• University of Arkansas—Amie Scheffer
• University of Iowa—Holly Schultz University of Missouri Columbia—Scott Lepley
• University of Missouri Kansas City—Aliyia Allison, Janice McCabe, Rachael Smith
• University of Missouri-Rolla—Caroline Davis, Sean O’Donnell
• University of Nebraska at Omaha—William Moak
• Wright State University—Brian Bayliss, Susan Klosterman

2004 Section Meeting at St. Louis, Missouri

(Only Open to Student Members or Associates of the GSA North-Central Section) Provided by the GSA North-Central Section and the GSA Foundation

• Ball State University—Bryon Adams Beloit College—Elizabeth Chessar
• Central Michigan University—Emily Hartwich
• College of Wooster—Will Driscoll, Joshua Michaels, Allison Mione, Kevin Wolfe, Nicholas Young, Elyse Zavar
• Cornell College—Amelinda Webb
• Eastern Illinois University—Kelsey Garner
• Kent State Univerity—Muhammad Asim, Clayton Loelin
• Illinois State University—Lauren Hunt, Suzanne Moore, Jennifer Murphy, Anastasiya Ojeda
• Indiana State University—Michelle Abriani, Purnim Bhaomik
• Iowa State University—Carmomilia Bright, A. Zannazzi
• Miami University—Tony Albrecht, Angela Cowan, Kristin Guthrie, Christopher Sayre, E. Shillenberger, William Wilcox
• North Dakota State University—Jennifer Thorstad
• Northern Kentucky University—Benjamin Otto
• Northwest Missouri State University—Diane Leipard
• The Ohio State University—Kathy Bremar, Jin-Pai Lin, Kate Tierney, Seth Young
• University of Chicago—Nicole Lunning
• University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana—Sarah Brown, Kurtis Burmeister, Alexander Glass, Jennifer Jackson
• University of Iowa—Adel Haj, Lori Wozniak
• University of Michigan—Holli Frey, Lin Ma, Steven Ownby, Maodu Yan
• University of Minnesota—Stacia Gordon
• University of Minnesota Duluth—Roger Bannister, Andrew Breckenridge, Margretta Meyer, Kristin Riker-Coleman
• University of Missouri Columbia—Amanda Hassler, C. Isaza, Paula Lee, Scott Lepley, Jason Yuvan
• University of Missouri-Rolla—Mark Dudley, Sean O’Donnell
• University of Nebraska Lincoln—Jonathan Allen, K. Eggemeyer, Paul Hansen, Erica Sorensen, Stephanie Thomas
• University of Northern Iowa—Jesse Koch University of Toledo—Henry Loope, Abby Norton, Kelly Weyer
• University of Toronto—Silvia Mancini
• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire—Kevin Gostamski, Carolyn Moeller, Jeremy Treague
• University of Wisconsin Madison—Skylar Primm, Betty Socha University of Wisconsin Milwaukee—Darlene Fissler
• Washinton University—Robert Buchwaldt, Jeff Hoffman, Johan Kieniewicz, Stephanie Novak
• Wright State University—Sveta Bose, Kurtz Miller

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