Scholarships

Norman H. Foster Memorial Scholarship for research in applied petroleum geology

The Norman H. Foster Memorial scholarship is awarded to a graduate student at an accredited college or university who can demonstrate the ability and intent to utilize various exploration techniques to locate structural and/or stratigraphic accumulations of oil and gas.  Innovative research with the addition of fieldwork and/or subsurface data will be given special consideration. The scholarship was created in memory of Norm Foster who was one of RMAG’s most prestigious members, a leader in the Denver geologic community, an outstanding and successful explorer, and a highly respected member of local and national organizations.

The 2023 Norman H. Foster Memorial Scholarship was awarded to:

Patrick Sullivan, Ph.D. candidate, Geology, Colorado School of Mines

Patrick Sullivan, Ph.D. candidate, Geology, Colorado School of Mines

Patrick’s thesis topic is “Origin and stratigraphy of enigmatic sandstones of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: The Late Turonian Wall Creek-Turner system, Powder River Basin, WY.” Patrick’s work is under the direction of Dr. Stephen Sonnenberg. He intends to obtain new sedimentological and geochronological data from the Wall Creek-Turner system in the Powder River Basin and integrate them with coeval units across the Rocky Mountain region to solve a number of problems. Patrick will use a diverse suite of analytical methods to help better characterize and understand the distribution of depositional environments and their geochronologic framework during the Late Turonian of the Western Interior Seaway.

Patrick has a M.S. in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines and a B.S. in Geology from Macalester College.

The 2022 Norman H. Foster Memorial Scholarship was awarded to:

Luis Carlos Escobar Arenas, MS student, Colorado State University
“Surface-based modeling of 3D architectural elements controlled by near wellbore modeling”