RMAG FOUNDATION 2020 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
After reviewing 51 scholarship applications from graduate students enrolled in 12 universities across the country and 1 undergraduate student, the Trustees of the RMAG Foundation have granted nine scholarships totaling $30,500 to the following students:
- Gary Babcock Memorial Scholarship
- Matthew Ellison, M.S. candidate at Utah State
“The Biggest Snowball Fight in Earth History: Sequence Stratigraphy and Facies Analysis of the Pocatello Formation, Idaho, USA”
- Matthew Ellison, M.S. candidate at Utah State
- Dudley and Marion Bolyard Scholarship at University of Colorado
- Michael Frothingham, M.S. candidate at CU
“Magmatic Fabric Influence on Crustal Seismic Anisotropy”
- Michael Frothingham, M.S. candidate at CU
- Robert M. Cluff Memorial Scholarship
- Thomas Martin, M.S. candidate at Colorado School of Mines
“Machine learning and advanced analytics of geoscience data,
examples from deepwater core to fluvial outcrops”
- Thomas Martin, M.S. candidate at Colorado School of Mines
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Daan Beelen, M.S. candidate at CSM
“A Possible Late Cretaceous Impact Structure in Black Mesa,
Arizona”
- Daan Beelen, M.S. candidate at CSM
- Norman H. Foster Memorial Scholarship
- Savannah Rice, M.S. candidate at Colorado School of Mines
“The Influence of Pennsylvanian-Triassic Salt Tectonics on
Laramide Shortening in Central Colorado: A New Tectonic
Model”
- Savannah Rice, M.S. candidate at Colorado School of Mines
- Michael S. Johnson Scholarship
- Jacquelin Lee, M.S. candidate at the University of Kansas
“A novel approach to date continental sediment deposition
and paleoclimate events using volcanogenic zircon in
paleosols”
- Jacquelin Lee, M.S. candidate at the University of Kansas
- Philip J. McKenna Memorial Scholarship
- India Phillips, Rising Senior at Colorado College
“Using oxygen and carbon isotope rations of tooth enamel to understand niche partitioning among mammals after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction”
- India Phillips, Rising Senior at Colorado College
- Stone-Hollberg Scholarship
- Alison Hafner, M.S. candidate at Utah State
Fault and fracture network behavior in a fluid-gas system: Analyses of fluid flow in natural CO2 reservoirs, Salt Wash Graben, UT”
- Alison Hafner, M.S. candidate at Utah State
- Veterans Memorial Scholarship
- Chance Seckinger, M.S. candidate at Colorado School of Mines
“Lateral Heterogeneity of Basin-Plain Turbidites of the Cloridorme Formation, Quebec, Canada”
- Chance Seckinger, M.S. candidate at Colorado School of Mines
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THESE OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS!
THEY WILL BE INVITED TO RECEIVE THEIR AWARDS AT THE APRIL 1 RMAG LUNCH.