The Lipman Research Fund was established in 1993 and is supported by The Lipman Family Foundation. The purpose of the fund is to promote and support graduate-student research in volcanology, petrology, geochemistry, and mineralogy. The president of the Lipman Family Foundation, Peter W. Lipman, was the recipient of a GSA research grant in 1965, the 2004 GSA Distinguished Service Award, and the first MGPV Distinguished Geological Career Award in 2010.
Applying for a grant.
To be considered for a Lipman Graduate Student Research Grant, candidates should submit a research proposal to GSA’s Graduate Student Research Grants program. Each year, GSA generally accepts proposals from 1 December through 1 February. The proposals to be considered for a grant are forwarded to the Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology (MGPV) Division of GSA. Criteria for selection by MGPV - how well the proposal integrates and depend on a range of geology (field) evidence that may be combined with lab work or modeling to answer the posed question or select the samples. Will the study would make an important or interesting contribution. Will the techniques to be used have a good chance of answering the question(s) posed.
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Awardees (1993-)
2023
John Ajayi, University of Connecticut, Willimantic, CT, for his project: Reconstructing Paleoelevation of Taiwan Orogenic belt using Isotope Geochemistry of Fluvially-exported Catchment-integrated Organic Molecular Biomarkers. (project description & biography)
Erin Alexander, Arizona State University, Austin, TX, for her project: Seeing Beneath the Surface: Using Geomorphology and Geochemistry to Map Hot Spring Regions. (project description & biography)
Brooke Benz, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Ironton, MO, for their project: Defining the volcanic and magmatic history at Askja Volcano, Iceland. (project description & biography)
Emilie Bowman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, for her project: Investigating the crustal thickness and topographic evolution of the southern Central Andes of Northern Chile and Argentina. (project description & biography)
Catriona Breasley, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA for their project: The geochemistry, petrology and mineralogy of the Prof pegmatite, Revelstoke, BC. (project description & biography)
Haley Dietz, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, for her project: Quantifying pre-eruptive water content of eastern Snake River Plain basaltic melts using plagioclase hygrometry, Idaho, USA. (project description & biography)
Cameron Essex, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, for their project: Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions of the Pleistocene Ice Sheet Informed by Glacio-Volcanic Deposits in Northeast Iceland. (project description & biography)
Lydia Fairhurst, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CANADA for their project: Emplacement conditions of class 1 kimberlites as recorded in natural and experimentally produced reaction products on mantle-derived chromite and ilmenite. (project description & biography)
Serena Formenti, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA for her project: Studying the composition of the Deep Mantle from the Surface of the Earth: Investigating Clues in the Northwest Hawaiian Ridge. (project description & biography)
Kailee Gokey, Miami University, Oxford, OH, for her project: Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Gold in Mine Waste in Tonopah, Nevada: Implications for Potential Recycling and Environmental Benefits for an Underserved Community. (project description & biography)
Alexander Hammerstrom, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Northampton, MA, for their project:Trapped: Using Cascadian olivine-hosted melt inclusions to decipher the petrogenesis of primary magmas in a continental arc setting. (project description & biography)
Sarah Hickernell, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, for their project: Coevolution of Intrusive and Extrusive Magmas: Mineral Records of the Searchlight Magmatic System, NV. (project description & biography)
Rachel Holsteen-Bruyere, Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ, for herproject: Highly Explosive Mafic Volcanoes: A New Model of Volatile Solubility. (project description & biography)
Samuel Hudziak, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, for their project: Constraining the age and stratigraphic correlation of the Saunders Ash, Mt. Taranaki, New Zealand. (project description & biography)
Kaitlyn Hulsey, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, for their project: Building up magma reservoirs in the Earth's crust: the case of Stone Mountain. (project description & biography)
Nathanael Kilburg, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, for their project: Characterizing the Matlock Keratophyre using high precision major and trace element geochemistry. (project description & biography)
Jisoo Kim, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, for her project: Magma reservoir and volatile content: Implications for future inter-caldera activity at Valles Caldera, New Mexico, USA. (project description & biography)
Laura Lapham, University of Conneticut, Storrs, CT, for their project: Post-Glacial fire and climate history of Southern New England. (project description & biography)
Mikkel Louis, Oregon State University, Albany, OR, for her project: Constraining eruption initiation mechanisms for cyclic explosive eruptions at Misti volcano, Peru. (project description & biography)
Pablo Moreno-Yaeger, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, for his project: Volatiles and rhyolite genesis within a predominantly basaltic to andesitic arc. (project description & biography)
Hans Naake, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, for his project: Isotope Fractionation of a Paleoclimate Evaporation Proxy Produced by Two Diatom Communities. (project description & biography)
Jackson Oakey, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, for his project: Flow or blow? Understanding magma flow in conduits during vesiculation. (project description & biography)
Trent Olson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, for his project: Constraining the crystallization conditions of the Mt. Taranaki, NZ MASH zone. (project description & biography)
Michael Powell, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CANADA for his project: High field strength element behaviour in late stage felsic systems. (project description & biography)
Anna Ruefer, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, for their project: Big vs little: the generation, storage, and eruption of explosive rhyolitic eruptions. (project description & biography)
Erik Schoonover, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, for their project: Connecting plutons and volcanoes through zircon depth profiles. (project description & biography)
Elizabeth Shade, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, for their project: Fluorescence as a Tool in Diamond Origin Tracing. (project description & biography)
Isabella Ulate, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, for her project: Weathering in Rocky Mountain Alluvial Valleys. (project description & biography)
Brooke Vander Pas, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, for her project:Isotopic and Geochemical Evidence for Potential Terrestrial-Oceanic Anoxia Ties from Near-Polar Early to Middle Devonian Coastal Sequences. (project description & biography)
Ethan Wagner, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, for his project: Geochronology of the rhyolites and andesites of the Bursum caldera, Mogollon-Datil volcanic field, New Mexico. (project description & biography)
Zachary Walton, University of Kentucky, South Bend, IN, for their project: Carbonate Content as a Control on REE Distribution in the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District. (project description & biography)
Jiawei Wang, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, for his project: Weathering Kinetics of Granitic Iron-bearing Minerals. (project description & biography)
Thomas Williams, Brown University, Providence, RI, for their project: Across-Arc Variability of Major, Trace, and Volatile Elements in the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone. (project description & biography)
Frank Wroblewski, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, for their project: Validating the Visible and Near-Infrared Reflectance of Glass with Electron Microscopy. (project description & biography)
Hanlin Zhang, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, for his project: Trace element and Hf-Isotope analysis of zircons from Sanit Francois Terrane. (project description & biography)
2022
Lindsey Abdale, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada, for her project Short-wave infrared spectroscopy of REE-bearing minerals from the Mount Grace extrusive carbonatite, southeastern British Columbia (Canada) (project description & biography)
Brooke Benz, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, for her project Magma Storage Conditions at Askja Volcano, Iceland (project description & biography)
Mariana Berger, The Ohio State University, Hilliard, OH, for her project: Understanding the dominate processes influencing the calcium isotopic signature in cold seep barites from the Gulf of Mexico (project description & biography)
Sarah Brooker, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, for her project: Stable Isotope Composition as a Tracer of Ancient Subduction (project description & biography)
César Bucheli Olaya, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, for his project Understanding the interaction between magmatic processes, volatile budgets, and eruptive style in Central Andean volcanoes: constrains to the plumbing systems of Lascar and Uturuncu (project description & biography)
Weiming Ding, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, for his project: A systematic investigation of stable cerium (Ce) isotope systematics and its potential application to reconstruction of paleoenvironmental conditions (project description & biography)
Joy Foluso, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, for her project: The Investigation of the Concentration and Isotopic ratios of CO2 in fluids as a Proxy for Mantle Processes in Rifting (project description & biography)
Elmer Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Cabo Rojo, PR, for his project: Identifying Ore Deposits in Puerto Rico by using Geochemistry of Surface Waters (project description & biography)
Nanci Reyes Guzman, Miami University, Oxford, OH, for her project Initiation of the 2021 La Palma eruption: constraining the eruption trigger and timing by U-series disequilibria and olivine diffusion profiling (project description & biography)
Alexander Holmwood, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, for his project Temporal evolution of the Majuba Hill Cu-(Sn) deposit, Pershing County, Nevada (project description & biography)
Jessica Johnson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, for her project Understanding Fluid-Rock Interactions in Skarn Development via Skarn Garnets in New Mexico and New York (project description & biography)
Tess Johnson, East Carolina University, Vass, NC, for her project Constraints on subvolcanic magma plumbing system evolution from Crystal Size Distribution analysis of igneous groundmass (project description & biography)
Nathaniel Lenhard, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, for his project Geochemical Comparison of the Chasca Orkho Series and Magmatic Inclusions at Volcán Ollagüe, Central Volcanic Zone, Northern Chile (project description & biography)
Charles Lewis, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, for his project The Chaxas Volcanic Center: Revealing Protracted Magmatic Lifecycles in High-Flux Arc Settings (project description & biography)
Mary Macquistan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, for her project The origin of exotic barium silicate minerals in the Cordillera: Characterization and comparison of the Gun occurrence (Yukon Territory) and localities in California (project description & biography)
Emily McQuarrie, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, for her project Using marine sediments off Grays Harbor to reconstruct deglaciation of the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet (project description & biography)
Cissy Ming, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, for her project A tale of two reservoirs: Geochemical drivers impacting effectiveness of hypolimnetic oxygenation for manganese treatment (project description & biography)
Venkata Sailaja Pappala, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, for her project Experimental determination of controls on lithium isotopic fractionation during water-vermiculite interactions in low temperature settings: Implication for continental silicate weathering (project description & biography)
Travis Parsons, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, for his project The first complete rheological map of basalt at emplacement conditions (project description & biography)
Mollie Pope, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, for her project Apatite as an indicator of water contents in magmatic source regions (project description & biography)
Carli Schmidt, Northern Illinois University, Genoa, IL, for her project An experimental investigation of gold incorporation into bornite, intermediate solid solution (ISS), and pyrrhotite: Implications for constraining gold distribution in porphyry ore deposits (project description & biography)
Ashley Thrower, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, for her project A new method for determining temperatures in geothermal systems: Application of intersector chemical zoning of tourmaline (project description & biography)
Simin Zhao, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, for her project Effects of mineral substrates on authigenic clay precipitation in reverse weathering process (project description & biography)
2021
Bryce Brown, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, for his project: Ra/Th Dating of Potassium Feldspar Crystals in Trachytes from the Las Cañadas Caldera, Tenerife, Spain (project description & biography)
Karoline Bruckel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, for her project: What triggers supereruptions? Insights into the remobilization of silicic magma systems from quartz melt channels (project description & biography)
Watsawan (Fai) Chanchai, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, for her project: A Carbonate Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Oceanic Oxygenation during the Basal Cambrian Carbon Isotope Excursion (BACE) (project description & biography)
Kristi Dobra, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, for her project: Using Barium Isotopes to Trace Oil and Gas Produced Water in Sediment (project description & biography)
Alyssa Endrich, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, for their project: Petrogenesis of Cenozoic Basalts from the Centennial Valley and vicinity, southwest Montana (project description & biography)
Yihang Fang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, for her project: The role of dissolved silica in the formation of sedimentary dolomite: evidence from the Silurian Burnt Bluff Formation, Wisconsin (project description & biography)
Samuel Grandy, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, for his project: Late Miocene-Pliocene Volcanism in the Sierra San Francisco, Central Baja California Peninsula, Mexico: Implications for Mantle Processes and Regional Tectonic Development (project description & biography)
Jaclyn Hager, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, for her project: Using anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) to determine the flow characteristics of a pyroclastic density current (project description & biography)
Mckenna Holliday, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, for her project: Geochemical characterization of clinker profiles in Custer National Forest, Montana. (project description & biography)
Abigail Martens, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, for her project: Pre-eruptive crystallization conditions in the past 25 Ma at Martinique Island as revealed by textural and chemical variation in phenocrysts. (project description & biography)
Julia McIntosh, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, for her project: Measuring stable and radio isotopes of clay minerals from Pennsylvanian-aged paleosols to assess diagenetic mechanisms in the Illinois Basin (project description & biography)
Dana Mineart, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, for her project: Constraining continental emerges: Proterozoic ocean crust as a record of seawater isotopes (project description & biography)
Alireza "Ali" Namayandeh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, for his project: Impact of oxyanion surface complexes mode and strength on the nucleation and growth of goethite and hematite during ferrihydrite transformation (project description & biography)
Samuel Oxhorn, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, for his project: Western Aleutian Volcanism; Differentiation of Holocene Kiska Magmas (project description & biography)
Natalie Packard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, for her project: Determining the temperature dependence of triple oxygen isotope fractionation during acid digestion of carbonate minerals (project description & biography)
Emily Persinger, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, for her project: Using remote sensing to predict nutrient pollution events associated with the suspended load for the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers (project description & biography)
Amy Plechacek, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ann Arbor, MI, for her project: Assessing radium leaching potential from stratigraphic units within the Midwestern Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system (project description & biography)
Calli Provenza, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, for her project: Hydrothermal Source Proxy Using Noble Metals (project description & biography)
Mark Radwin, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, for his project: Extreme diagenesis and chemical evolution in southwest Australia: observations from mineralogy (project description & biography)
Gabriela Ramirez, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, for her project: Platinum-Group Element Concentrations in Tropical Lake Sediments in the Exploration of Nickel Laterite Deposits (project description & biography)
William "Bo" Ward IV, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, for his project: Reconstructing changes in precipitation triggered by ancient global warming (project description & biography)
Nitzan Yanay, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, for his project: Weathering of Himalayan carbonates, the marine 87Sr/86Sr record and implications for Cenozoic cooling (project description & biography)
Qin Zhang, University of Calgary, Calgary, AZ, Canada, for her project: Experimental Determination of Glauconite Carbonation Kinetics (project description & biography)
Simin Zhao, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, for her project: The effects of Fe2+ concentration on the early diagenesis of biogenic silica in reverse weathering (project description & biography)
2020
“Leye” Oyeleye Adeboye, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA for his proposal: Evaluation of Saturate and Aromatic Fraction Biomarkers in the Mississippian Limestone in an Area of the Anadarko Shelf of Oklahoma (project description & biography)
Molly Anderson, University of Florida, for her project: Petrogenesis of the 8° 20' N Seamount Chain: Modeling Mantle Heterogeneity and Melting in the near-ridge environment (project description & biography)
Marisa Barefoot, Auburn University, for her proposal: Puerto Rico’s Iron Deposits: Developing a Genetic Model through Field Observations and Geochemical Analyses (project description & biography)
Robert Bogue, McGill University, for his project: Carbon isotopes in tree rings reveal history of volcanic CO2emissions at a reawakening volcano in Peru (project description & biography)
Meredith Cole, State University of New York at Buffalo, for their project: Vent Morphology and Evolution at Grizzly Peak Caldera, CO (project description & biography)
Lissie Connors, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR for their project: Assessing Magma Storage and Volatile Fluxes in the Nyiragongo Volcanic Field (project description & biography)
Connor Frederickson, Utah State University, for his project: Fingerprinting paleo-groundwater sources using oxygen isotopes of hematite concretions from the “Boiler Room”, Moab area, Utah (project description & biography)
Lisa Hlinka, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY for her project: Constraining Timescales of Magma Storage and Ascent, and Potential Climate Impacts of the Columbia River Flood Basalt Volcanism (project description & biography)
Allison Huisa, Northern Arizona University, for her project: Understanding High Silicic Rhyolite Storage and Duration in a Dominantly Mafic Intracontinental Volcanic Setting (project description & biography)
Junyao Kang, Virginia Tech, for his project: Reconstructing Redox Conditions of Tonian (ca. 1,000–720 Ma) Oceans (project description & biography)
Jacob Klug, University of Wisconsin-Madison, for his project: Magma mixing and explosive eruptions at Planchon-Peteroa Volcano, Chile revealed through minerals and melt inclusions (project description & biography)
Julia McIntosh, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX for her project: Assessing the silicon isotopic composition of clay minerals from paleosols as proxies for illitization and reconstructing paleoenvironments (project description & biography)
Carolyn Mullins, New Mexico State University, for her project: Provenance Analysis of a Modern Drainage Basin with Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (project description & biography)
Yon-Gyung Ryuh, University of Waterloo, for her proposal: Bromine isotope compositions of Silurian Salina salts in the Michigan and the Appalachian basins (project description & biography)
Rachelle Sanchez, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH for her proposal: Causes of Chemical Variations in Monogenetic Eruptions: The Magmatic Evolution of Xitle Volcano, Mexico (project description & biography)
2019
Kirkland Broadwell, Virginia Tech, for his proposal: Constraining the timing and conditions of collision in the central Appalachians using garnet-allanite-monazite petrochronology (project description & biography)
Richard Chow, Dalhousie University, for his proposal: Characterizing the variation of kimberlitic apatite within kimberlite bodies and determining the partition coefficients between apatite and trace elements in kimberlitic melts: implications on kimberlite modelling (project description & biography)
Seth Coursey, Northern Illinois University, for his proposal: Cobalt solubility and partitioning in hydrothermal systems (project description & biography)
Rose Gallo, Northern Arizona University, for her proposal: Correlating the proximal and distal facies of the Campanian Ignimbrite for stratigraphic reconstruction and process modelling (project description & biography)
Brenna Halverson, University of Missouri, Columbia, for her proposal: Correlation of lava flow characteristics with rheological properties in flows with high discharge rates, using the well preserved 1961 Vikraborgir Lava Flow in Iceland (project description & biography)
Coleman Hiett, Utah State University, for his proposal: Geochemical tracers of volatile transfer above an ancient flat-slab subduction zone: Insight from stable isotopes (δ18O, δ2H, δ13C) in Altiplano xenoliths (project description & biography)
Jordan Lubbers, Oregon State University, for his proposal: Utilizing NanoSIMS to Investigate the High-Resolution Thermal History of the Cerro Galan magmatic System (project description & biography)
Alex Maruszczak, University of South Florida, for his proposal: Characterizing Early Slab Input in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Forearc through Li Isotopes (project description & biography)
Suzanne Mulligan, University of Las Vegas Nevada, for her proposal: Applications and Limitations of Raman-inclusion barometry (project description & biography)
Tyler Schlieder, University of California, Davis, for his proposal: Thermal and chemical ‘resetting’ of crystal records in a large silicic magmatic system following caldera collapse, Taupo Volcanic Center, New Zealand (project description & biography)
Jesse Scholpp, Utah State University, for his proposal: Magma Mingling During Subduction Initiation: Chemical and Physical Processes (project description & biography)
Marie Takach, Oregon State University, for her proposal: Documenting Magma Mixing Processes and Timescales in Tephra Fall Deposits: El Misti Volcano, Peru (project description & biography)
Jennifer Thines, University of Iowa, for her proposal: Timescales of large-volume silicic magma generation revealed by geothermometry and diffusion chronometry (project description & biography)
Karissa Vermillion, New Mexico State University, for her proposal: The potential of sanidine isotopes and trace elements as geochemical tracers for distal volcanic deposits (project description & biography)
Dani Vitarelli, New Mexico State University, for her proposal: Eruptive volume and energy estimates from Kilbourne Hole, southcentral New Mexico (project description & biography)
2018
Aaron Ashley, University of South Carolina, for his proposal: The Effects of Carbonatitic Metasomatism on the Water Systematics of the Lithosphere (project description & biography)
Roy Bassoo, Baylor University, for his proposal: The residual pressure of zircon-hosted mineral inclusions of the Lava Creek Tuff, Yellowstone caldera: A Raman Spectroscopic Study (project description & biography)
Kadie Bennis, University of Missouri-Kansas City, for her proposal: Field and experimental analysis of sediment-magma mingling at the 71 Gulch Volcano in the western Snake River Pain, Idaho, USA (project description & biography)
Melissa Chambers, California State University-Fullerton, for her proposal: Tracking magma mixing through single mineral analysis of megacrystic K-feldspar (project description & biography)
Shoshauna Farnsworth-Pinkerton, Louisiana State University, for her proposal: Deciphering the chemical signature of tourmalinites using multivariate statistics of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Determining the environment of formation (project description & biography)
Justine Grabiec, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for her proposal: Origin of K-Feldspar Megacrysts in Granite: A 3D Tomographic Study (project description & biography)
Lisa Grohn, University of Rochester, for her proposal: Petrogenesis and eruptive history of xenolith-bearing magmas in the north Andean volcanic zone: insight for lower-crust processes in active continental arcs (project description & biography)
Rachel Hampton, University of Oregon, for her proposal: Oxygen Isotope Analysis and U-Th dating of zircons from the Krafla Central Volcano: An insight into the formation of rhyolites in basaltic environments (project description & biography)
Antonio Luna, University of South Florida, for his proposal: Subduction Recycling in the South China Sea – Luzon Arc system: characterization of sedimentary and ocean crustal materials recovered during IODP Expeditions 349, 367, and 368 (project description & biography)
Samuel Mitchell, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, for his proposal: The evolution of volatiles preceding and during deep submarine silicic eruptions (project description & biography)
Bryant Platt, California State University-Fresno, for his proposal: Does Mafic Recharge Control Eruption Timing? A Thermobarometric Test from Brokeoff Volcano, Lassen Volcanic Center, California
Jacob Setera, Rutgers University, for his proposal: Constraining the mid-temperature thermal and hydrothermal history of the Bushveld Igneous Complex: Insights from apatite U-Pb geochronology (project description & biography)
Lorenzo Tavazzani, Southern Methodist University, for his proposal: Miocene granitic intrusions and eruptive centers of the Colorado River Extensional Corridor (AZ, NV), a window into the plumbing system of rhyolitic calderas. (project description & biography)
Samantha Tramontano, City University of New York, for her proposal: Eruption trigger mechanisms at arc volcanoes with century-long repose periods (project description & biography)
Erin Wales, California State University-Northridge, for her proposal: The Role Of Magmatic Scapolite In Recording The Volatile Cycle Of The Lower Crust (project description & biography)
Kellie Wall, Oregon State University, for her proposal: Localization, longevity, and compositional diversity of intermediate magmatism in the Cascade arc: insights from the Goat Rocks volcanic complex (project description & biography)
2017
Katie Ardill, University of Southern California, for her proposal: Investigating the 'missing link' in plutonic-volcanic systems (project description & biography)
Jade Bowers, Oregon State University, for her proposal: Investigating the link between an active stratovolcano and a long-lived supervolcano in Sumatra, Indonesia (project description & biography)
Emily First, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, for her proposal: Mg diffusion in plagioclase: Insights from experiments on natural volcanic material (project description & biography)
Michael Mohr, Boise State University, for his proposal: Chevkinite: A Petrochronometer Sensitive to Pre-Eruptive Magma Dynamics (project description & biography)
Mackenzie Taylor, Miami University, for her proposal: A Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) Investigation of the Texture and Mineralogy of Macrocrystalline Gold from Type 4 Ore from Round Mountain, Nevada (project description & biography)
2016
Olivia Barbee, Michigan Technological University, for her proposal: Plutons and ignimbrites: Textural and geochemical perspectives on magma reservoir dynamic
Zoe Braden, Queens University, for her proposal: In situ laser ablation 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of polydeformed low-grade volcaniclastic rocks from the Variscan orogen
Matthew Dunlop, University of Wyoming, for his proposal: Platinum Isotope Characteristics of Pt-bearing Ore Deposits and Genetic Implications
Joana Voigt, The University of Arizona, for her proposal: Studying the emplacement history of the 2014-2015 Holuhraun eruption in Iceland
2015
Katie Ardill, University of Southern California, for her proposal: Formation of Schlieren Bands Bounding Magmatic Structures: Exploring Magmatic Differentiation Processes in Plutons
Catherine Armstrong, University of British Columbia, for her proposal: Isotopic and Trace Element Fingerprinting of the Enriched Component in the Hawaiian Mantle Plume
Lauren Harrison, University of British Columbia, for her proposal: Fe-Mn Crusts on Northwest Hawaiian Ridge Basalts: A Potential Contaminant?
2014
Emily Devers, Northern Illinois University, for her proposal: An examination of the reactivity of CO2 in the Earth's Mantle
2013
Madison L. Myers, University of Oregon, for her proposal: Volatile fluxes within large ignimbrite storage centers: a case study of San Juan Volcanism
2012
Jenni Hill, Texas Christian University, for her proposal: Phreatomagmatic Eocene Basaltic Volcanism in the Trans-Pecos Igneous Province of West Texas
2011
Mark Stelten, University of California at Davis, for his proposal: Assessing the modern structure of the magmatic system of at Yellowstone caldera, WY through U-series crystal ages, Hf-isotopes, and
2010
Sarah A. Bromley, Oregon State University, for her proposal: Sub-arc Mantle Reservoirs Through Time in Cascadia
2009
Duane Smythe, University of Toronto, for her proposal: Experimental Study on Zircon/Melt Partitioning of Trace Elements
2008
Alicja Wypych, Miami University, for her proposal: Source and process controls on mid-Miocene silicic volcanism in northern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, USA
2007
Daniele McKay, University of Oregon , for her proposal: Explosive basaltic eruptions in arc and backarc settings
2006
Celestine Mercer for her proposal: University of Oregon, for her proposal: Textural characterization of dike samples from a hydrous basaltic andesite stratovolcano: constraints on magma ascent and eruption style.
2005
Christyanne Melendez for her proposal: Debris avalanche event on an isolated rhyolitic dome, Cerro Pizarro, Mexico: Comparative study between small and large scale events
2004
Madalyn Blondes, Yale University, for her proposal: Temporal-compositional trends in single-eruption sequences of the Big Pine Volcanic Field, California
2003
Renee-Luce Simard, Dalhousie University, for her proposal: A Key to Understanding the Pre-Accretion Evolution of Ancient Pacific Margin of North America
2002
Christian S. de Fontaine, Northern Arizona University, for his proposal: Late Quaternary Distal Tephra in Lacustrine Sediments of the Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska: Implications for Magnetic Susceptibility, Sample-Site Selection and Tephrochronology
Carrie A. Menold, University of California-Los Angeles for her proposal: Metamorphism and Exhumation Mechanism of UHP Eclogites, North Qaidam, China
2001
Jose L. Arce, Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, for his proposal: Eruptive Dynamics and Possible Triggering Mechanisms During the Last Major Plinian Eruption at Nevado de Toluca Volcano, Central Mexico
Darin C. Snyder, Miami University, for his proposal: Magma Chamber Processes and Timescales: An Isotopic Investigation of the Agua de Pao Volcano, Sao Miguel, Azores
2000
Leigh Justet, University of Nevada Las Vegas for her proposal: Assessing the Role of Basalt Injection in the Geochemical Evolution of the Jemez Volcanic Field, New Mexico.
1999
Jorge A. Vazquez, University of California-Los Angeles for his proposal: Chronology of Magma Chamber Processes in the Yellowstone Caldera System using Ion Microprobe Analysis.
1998
Jennifer M. Wenner, Boston University for her proposal: The Role of High-Silica Granites in the Sierra Nevada Batholith as End Members in a Mixing Process that Generates Average Continental Crust.
1997
William H. Peck, University of Wisconsin, Madison for his proposal: Empirical Calibration of Oxygen Diffusion Rates in Zircon.
1996
James Rogers, University of Oregon for his proposal: The Explosive/Effusive Transition in Small Silicic Eruptions.
Kurt A. Shoemaker, Miami University for his proposal: Quantification of the Lithospheric and Sublithospheric Contributions to Northwestern United States Basaltic Volcanism.
1995
Kelly Boland, University of Nevada, Las Vegas for her proposal: The Petrogenesis of Andesites During Regional Crustal Extension.
1994
Julia G. Bryce, University of California, Santa Barbara, for her proposal: A Window into Magma Extrusion Mechanisms in CalderaForming Eruptions: The Boulder City Cauldron, Eldorado Mountains, Southeastern Nevada
Kristin T. Huysken, Michigan State University, for her proposal: Time Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of the limber Mountain Magmatic System: An Early History Recorded in the Pre-Caldera-Collapse Tephra.