Student Poster Awards

Submit your abstract for the Student Research Poster Competition here.

Awards are presented to students that presented posters during the student poster sessions at the annual meeting. Students need to attend the Sedimentary Geology Division business meeting and awards reception to find out if they won and to claim their award.  Awards are co-sponsored by SEPM.


2025 SEPM-SGD Outstanding Student Poster winners

  • George Bradley (Queen's University): Paragenetic evolution and implications of a mixed carbonate-evaporite system; The Givetian Dawson Bay Formation, Elk Point Basin
  • Margaret Pozzo (Illinois State University): Regional and Local Geology for a Potential CCS Site; an Example From the Illinois Basin, Sangamon County, Illinois

Previous Student Poster Awardees

2025: George Bradley, Margaret Pozzo

2024: Patrick Sullivan, Amira Harris Bommarito

2023: Natalee Weis, Joe Clevenger, Briana McMaster Smith, Joshua Malone

2022: Sophie Black, Jack Fekete, Chandler La Duke, Austin McGlannen

2019: Eliel Anttila, Anthony Edgington, Richard Hess, Taylor Kelln

2018: Daniel S Coutts, Asmara Lehrmann, Joshua R. Malone, Mingyu Yang

2017: Tadasse Alemu, Paul Dohm, Nicholas Fedorchuk, Charlie Y.C. Zang

2016: Rachel Fliflet, Angela Norman, Nicholas David Risedorf, Cody Stopka

2015: Carson Ames, Kristin Chilton, Christopher Connell, Evan Jones

2014: Alexa Goers, Robert Mahon, Maya Stokes, Tyler Winkler

2012: Samantha Taylor, Elizabeth Heness, Marcelina Labaj, David Malone

2009: Holly Buehler, Christopher Cassle, Eli Erickson, Katherine Murray, Michelle Olson

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