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”
  • Dudley and Marion Bolyard Scholarship at University of Colorado
    • Michael Frothingham, M.S. candidate at CU 
      “Magmatic Fabric Influence on Crustal Seismic Anisotropy”
  • 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”
  • Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
    • Daan Beelen, M.S. candidate at CSM
      “A Possible Late Cretaceous Impact Structure in Black Mesa,
      Arizona”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THESE OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS!

THEY WILL BE INVITED TO RECEIVE THEIR AWARDS AT THE APRIL 1 RMAG LUNCH.