The Division is pleased to announce the 2021 CSD student research awardees. These awards were competed through the GSA Student Grant program and were granted independent of, or in addition to, the regular GSA student grant.
Cathy Gagnon, Brown University, Stable isotope-based Pliocene-to-present hydroclimate reconstruction from Clayton Valley, NV
Sarah Katz, University of Michigan, Tropical climate and hydrologic variability from 609-530 kyr BP (MIS14/15) at Lake Junín, Peru
Joseph Novak, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fire’s Role in Ecosystem Change: Insights from Lake Baikal
Meredith Parish, Brown University, Controls on tropical precipitation across the mid-Pleistocene Transition
Marina Souza, Queen's University, Secular changes in sedimentary geochemistry across the Archean–Proterozoic (2.5-2.2 Ga) boundary
Laura Streib, Syracuse University, Refining the age model for 1.3 Ma Lake Malawi drill core using optically stimulated luminescence dating
Angela Torres-Zamora, University of Kansas, Controls on deposition and reservoir character of atypical shallow-water tropical carbonate systems: Miocene, Cicuco Field, NW Colombia
Yezi Yang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Investigating the connection between LIP volcanism and marine anoxia across the late Early Cambrian extinctions in Virginia utilizing sedimentary iron and mercury