Best Student Papers

The Cordilleran Section recognizes the high quality of science being presented at our meetings in general, and by our student members in particular. The Section acknowledges this excellence by awarding Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards for student presentations in each of the following four categories: Undergraduate Poster, Undergraduate Oral, Graduate Poster, and Graduate Oral. If Professional members are interested in participating in evaluating these presentations, please contact the Section Chair, or the Local Organizing Committee Chair.

Outstanding Student Presentations

 2005 Awardees:

Heather Bleick, Vanderbilt University — Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation

Production and distribution of hybridized magma in a replenished, open-system magma chamber; Aztec Wash pluton, Eldorado Mountains, Nevada

Valbone Memeti, University of Southern California — Honorable Mention, Graduate Poster Presentation

Regional and emplacement-related tectonism during intrusion of the Tuolumne batholith: Results from the Benson Lake and May Lake Pendants, Sierra Nevada, California - Honorable mention, Graduate Poster Presentation.

Sunshine Mansfield, Humboldt State University — Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation

Geology south of Punta Gorda, Mendocino Triple Junction region, CA

Dylan Rood, UC Santa Barbara — Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation

Neogene to Quaternary kinematics of the central Sierran frontal fault system in the Sonora Pass region: Preliminary structural, paleomagnetic, and neotectonic results

Lee Murai, Moss Landing Marine Labs — Honorable Mention, Graduate Oral Presentation.

Trans-terrestrial landslides along the northern rim of the Circum-Pacific and the impact on the marine environment: Big Sur coastline, California

 2004 Awardees:

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 2003 Awardees:

Martín Hernández-Marín, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México -- Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation

Deformability of volcano-lacustrine sediments during subsidence by aquitard consolidation

Sarah Gaudio, College of Wooster -- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Poster Presentation

Discrimination and correlation of Peach Springs Tuff and Peach Spring age-equivalent ignimbrites by geochronology, petrology, and immobile element geochemistry, northern Colorado River extensional corridor

Ryan Gold, Whitman College -- Outstanding Undergraduate Oral Presentation

A comparative study of aerial photograph sand LIDAR imagery for landslide detection in the Puget lowland, Washington

David Barbeau, University of Arizona -- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Oral Presentation

Detrital zircon geochronology of basement and cover rocks from the Santa Lucia Mountains, California; new evidence for limited transport of Salinia

Lorna Jaramillo, University of Colorado -- Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation

Remote sensing evaluation of element dispersion characteristics of porphyry copper deposits in the Silver Bell Mountains, Arizona

Ewa Szynkaruk, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México -- Honorable Mention Graduate Poster Presentation

Tectonic implications of geomorphologic an structural characteristics of the Morelia - Acambay fault system, central Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

Vlad Constantin Manea, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México -- Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation

Thermal models, coupling and metamorphism for the Mexican subduction zone beneath Guerrero

Matthew Forrest, Moss Landing Marine Labs -- Honorable Mention Graduate Oral Presentation

Present-day shallow-water hydrothermal venting along the El Requesón fault zone provides possible analog for formation of Pliocene-age chert deposits in Bahía Concepción, B.C.S. México

 2002 Awardees

Matthew Silver, Whitman College -- Outstanding Undergraduate Oral Presentation

Analysis of plan-view geometry of clastic dike networks in Missoula flood slackwater sediments (Touchet beds), southeastern Washington

Robyn Cook, Middlebury College -- Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation

Differentiation of two Quaternary Mt. Hood lahars by clay mineralogical, quantitative X-ray diffraction and particle size analyses

Tandis Bidgoli, San Francisco State University -- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Poster Presentation

Determining uplift rates and patterns from Quaternary marine terraces of the Point Reyes Peninsula, California

Jessica Olsen, California State University, Northridge -- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Poster Presentation

Changes in the hydrogeology of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah defined by shifts in mineralogy and Sr-isotope composition

Brian Collins, University of California, Berkeley -- Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation

Geotechnical observations and analyses of recent coastal bluff failures, Pacifica California

Derek Ryter, University of Oregon -- Honorable Mention Graduate Oral Presentation

Quaternary tectonic evolution of the central San Jacinto fault zone, southern California

Heather Petcovic, Oregon State University -- Honorable Mention Graduate Oral Presentation

Dike-wallrock interactions in granitoids of the Wallowa Mountains, NE Oregon

Michael O'Neal, University of Washington -- Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation

The effects of moraine degradation on lichenometric dating of Little Ice Age moraines

Brandi Molitor, Western Washington University -- Honorable Mention Graduate Poster Presentation

Extent and climatic implications of the Upper Truckee Glacier during the Tahoe glaciation -Assessing conflicting scenarios

Todd Williams, Humboldt State University -- Honorable Mention Graduate Poster Presentation

The geodetic signature of modern deformation within the southern Cascade margin, northwestern California

Sean Fleming, University of British Columbia -- Honorable Mention Graduate Poster Presentation

Single and multiple mass transfer rates: Implications to groundwater contaminant transport at large temporal and spatial scales from deterministic and stochastic analysis

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