AGeS2 Program

Awards for Geochronology Student Research2

AGeS Awards

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2021 AGeS Recipients

Student	Proposal Title	Institution	Technique
Bryce Belanger	Dating climatic shifts during past warm periods: Building a U-series chronology for a Last Interglacial speleothem	Vanderbilt University	U-series
Austin Carter	A novel ²³⁴U/²³⁸U folding verification technique applied to an ice core from the Allan Hills, Antarctica	University of California - San Diego	U-series
Rebecca Goughnour	Quantifying the duration of magma flow through two Columbia River Flood Basalt dikes using the biotite Ar thermochronometer	Idaho State University	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar
Anselm Krause	Uplift Patterns of Marine Terraces, Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand: A Catalog of Subduction Driven Surface Deformation	California Polytechnic State University, Pomona	Luminescence
Aubrey LaPlante	Feldspar IRSL dating of Late Holocene earthquakes in the transfer zone between the Panamint and Ash Hill faults, Eastern California Shear Zone	Northern Arizona University	Luminescence
Kurt Lindberg	Improving Holocene chronologies for macrofossil-poor Baffin Island lake sediments using ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating	University at Buffalo	Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating
Andre Mere	Rock avalanches in a semi-arid orogen: spatiotemporal insight provided by ¹⁰Be exposure ages in the San Gabriel Mountains, California	University of California, Riverside	Cosmogenics
Nicholas Meszaros	Eruption Tempos of Fayalite and Biotite Rhyolites at Valles Caldera, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico: Implications for Current Magmatic Quiescence	The University of Texas at Austin	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar
Shanti Penprase	Signals of environmental and human-driven change in catchment-averaged paleoerosion and terrace formation in the Whitewater River Basin, SE Minnesota	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Cosmogenics
Brian Penserini	Testing Multiple Working Hypotheses for Large-Scale Capture Events using low-T Thermochronometry, Sutlej River, western Himalaya	University of California Santa Barbara	(U-Th)/He
Julianne Scamardo	Sediment storage as a driver of floodplain geomorphic heterogeneity in ephemeral watersheds across the Southwest U.S.	Colorado State University	Luminescence
Jack Simmons	Evaluating exotic vs. endemic paleogeographic models for Late Jurassic terranes in the western Sierra Nevada, California	University of North Carolina Wilmington	U-Th-Pb
Sianin Spaur	The hydroclimate response to warming in the southwestern US across the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum.	Colorado State University	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar
Haley Thoresen	Eocene Basin Record of Metamorphic Core Complex Exhumation in the Western United States Cordillera	University of Idaho	(U-Th)/He

2020 AGeS Recipients

Student	Proposal Title	Institution	Technique
Erin Bessette-Kirton	Birth of a bridge: Cosmogenic nuclide depth profile dating of fluvial terraces to determine the formation age of Rainbow Bridge, Utah	University of Utah	Cosmogenics
Xenia Boyes	Dating the Onset of the Iceland Plume: ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar chronology of Baffin Island Basalts	California Institute of Technology	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar
Eric Brown	TESTING POTENTIAL TRIGGERING MECHANISMS OF LARGE HOLOCENE ROCK AVALANCHES, WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON, USA	Western Washington University	Cosmogenics
Genna Chiaro	Reassessing a Supereruption: Investigating the Eruptive Tempo of the Ora Ignimbrites (Permian, Italy) with High-Precision ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Sanidine Ages	Vanderbilt University	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar
Lisa Duong	Temporal-geochemical transition of Miocene-Quaternary magmatism towards continental characteristics at Cerro Chirripo National Park, Costa Rica	Georgia State University	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar
Sarah Giles	Ediacaran detrital zircon provenance in South Australia: Implications for the age of the Shuram excursion and Ediacaran paleogeographic reorganization	Columbia University	U-Th-Pb
Daianne Hofig	Age Linking Middle Miocene and Anthropocene climates: novel insights from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology	Texas A&M University	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar
Allison Huisa	Understanding Silicic Magma Storage Using ²³⁸U-²³⁰Th Dating of Zircon and Chevkinites in a Dominantly Mafic Intracontinental Volcanic Setting	Northern Arizona University	U-Th-Pb
Chantel Jensen	Does forearc erosion mirror short-term megathrust earthquake cycle deformation?	Western Washington University	Cosmogenics
Mary Lonsdale	Temporally calibrating an early eukaryotic fossil assemblage with U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS zircon ages	Johns Hopkins University	U-Th-Pb
Logan Mahoney	Surficial and Geomorphic history of Reynolds Creek, Idaho	Idaho State University	U-Th-Pb
Eyal Marder	Testing tectonic and climatic drivers of transient landscape evolution in the Colorado Front Range using river profile analysis and ¹⁰Be erosion rates	Colorado State University	Cosmogenics
Lyle Nelson	Radiometrically dating the Great Unconformity and the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary as expressed in the Death Valley region	Johns Hopkins University	U-Th-Pb
Oyewande Ojo	Thermotectonic history as recorded in footwall blocks of the S. Malawi Rift and N. Shire Graben border faults: Insights from apatite fission tracks	Oklahoma State University, Stillwater	Fission Track
Nicolas Perez-Consuegra	Using apatite ⁴He/³He and U-Th/He thermochronology to unravel the timing and mechanism of incision of the Cauca River Canyon in the Northern Andes	Syracuse University	(U-Th)/He
Elizabeth Patterson	Reconstructing precipitation variability in Mainland Southeast Asia over the last 20,000 years using stalagmites	University of California, Irvine	U-series
Valarie J Smith	Timing of the onset of accretionary orogenesis and metamorphism following ~ 100 m.y. of a passive margin setting in the southern Appalachian orogen	Florida State University	U-series
Elaine Young	Characterizing the rapid uplift and exhumation of the Fish Creek Vallecito basin, southeastern California	University of California, Davis	(U-Th)/He

2019 AGeS Recipients

Student	Proposal Title	Institution	Technique
Francisco Apen	Developing apatite petrochronology through high-precision ID-TIMS	University of California, Santa Barbara	U-Pb, Sr, Nd
Joseph Biasi	Alteration of the Columbia River Basalts: Implications for ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology	California Institute of Technology	Ar
Tarryn Cawood	Structural Controls and Timing of Mineralization in the Oro Cruz Gold Deposit, SE California	University of Southern California	Re-Os
Johanna Eidmann	Evaluating how reforestation and hurricanes affect landsliding, erosion, and reservoir sedimentation	Colorado State University	CRNs
Karol Faehnrich	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology of the Kaltag-Porcupine fault system of Yukon and Alaska	Dartmouth College	FAr
Joel Gombiner	Age of Moses Coulee glacial outburst flood gravels through U-series dating of calcite cements	University of Washington	U-series
Lisa Grohn	Crystallization and eruption history of ultramafic lower-crustal xenoliths in the north Andean arc	University of Rochester	U-Pb
David Hernandez Uribe	Tracking the spatio-temporal evolution of the subducted Farallon oceanic slab beneath the Colorado Plateau	Colorado School of Mines	Lu-Hf
Ellen Lamont	Evaluating Late Cenozoic Mountain Range Evolution in India's Himalayan Fold-and-Thrust Belt	Oregon State University	(U-Th)/He
Drew Levy	Assessing the contribution of Jurassic crustal thickening to growth of the Cretaceous Nevadaplano	University of Nevada Reno	Ar
Madeline Lewis	Timing of Mafic Intrusions Relative to Granitic Pluton Emplacement in the Sierra Nevada Batholith	California Institute of Technology	U-Pb
Craig Martin	Detrital zircon geochronology of sediment from the Shyok suture zone in Ladakh, India	MIT	Detrital zircon
Kirsty McKenzie	Quantifying differential uplift of the Yaquina Bay Fault, Oregon using OSL of marine terrace sands	Pennsylvania State University	OSL
Nikolas Midttun	Relating strain localization during post-orogenic collapse to inherited crustal structure in the northern Basin and Range province	University of Michigan	AFT
Erin Peck	Rate of accommodation space filling following the 1700 earthquake in an Oregon estuary	Oregon State University	¹⁴C
Logan Powell	Zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry: Evidence for the ~1.4 Ga Picuris orogeny	Colorado School of Mines	U-Pb
Maria Alejandra Rodriguez Mustafa	Timing of mineralization in the Candelaria deposit, Chile: Implications for the IOA-IOCG continuum	University of Michigan	Ar
Jennifer Thines	Petrogenesis of Afro-Arabian large-volume silicic magmas revealed by U-Pb zircon geochronology	University of Iowa	U-Pb
Kirk Townsend	Linking long-term patterns of rock uplift to short-term fault kinematics and seismic hazards	University of Michigan	CRNs
Karissa Vermillion	Spatial and temporal variations in voluminous caldera volcanism in southern New Mexico	New Mexico State University	Ar

2017 AGeS Recipients

Student	Proposal Title	Institution	Technique
Emery Anderson-Merritt	Bracketing slip rates on the Mojave San Andreas using feldspar IRSL luminescence dating	UC Davis	Feldspar IRSL Luminescence
Snir Attia	Constructing an improved geochemical record of Mesozoic Sierra Nevada volcanism to test models of arc tempos	USC	U-Pb (LASS-ICPMS)
Katherine Guns	Strain Drain along the Southern San Andreas Fault: Investigating possible strain transfer though faults of the Eastern Transverse Ranges, Joshua Tree National Park, CA	University of Arizona	¹⁰Be CRN
Brendon Quirk	Assessing the possible coseismic nature of paleo-rock avalanches in the intermountain seismic belt, Utah	University of Utah	¹⁰Be & ³⁶Cl CRN
Maya Stokes	Role of river capture in retreat of the Blue Ridge Escarpment	MIT	¹⁰Be & ²⁶Al CRN
Kellie Wall	Timing of Eruption Relative to Magma Crystallization during the Life of an Arc Volcano	Oregon State University	U-Pb (SHRIMP)

2016 AGeS Recipients

Student	Proposal Title	Institution	Technique
Alyssa Abbey	Arkansas River development and late Cenozoic exhumation in the southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado.	University of Michigan	Detrital U-Th-Pb
James Chapman	Zircon δ¹⁸O Trends in Cordilleran Magmatism in the Western U.S. and the Relationship to Mantle Lithosphere Geodynamics	University of Arizona	zircon U-Pb geochronology and zircon δ¹⁸O isotope geochemistry
Jeremy Cordova	Pressure-temperature-time evolution of the Easton terrane, North Cascades, Washington State: the record of subduction initiation.	Western Washington University	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar
Luke Fairchild	Constraining rapid paleogeographic change in the Mesoproterozoic as recorded by the North American Midcontinent Rift	University of California, Berkeley	U-Pb (TIMS)
Emilie Gentry	In situ U-(Th-)Pb LA-ICP-MS analysis of monazite in high-strain zones to test the extent and origin of the Norumbega fault system in the New England Appalachians, a San Andreas-type fault system.	Colorado School of Mines	U-(Th-)Pb LA-ICP-MS
Benjamin Klein	A detrital zircon study of metasediments in lower arc crust in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Detrital U-Th-Pb
James Mauch	Quantifying active salt deformation in Spanish Valley, UT, utilizing a chronostratigraphy of offset stream terraces	Utah State University	cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) ¹⁰Be-²⁶Al isochron burial dating
Alexander Morelan	Alluvial Fan Morphology Along Faulted Range Fronts as a Recorder of Slip Rate	University of California, Davis	¹⁰Be CRN
Matthew Morris	Thermochronometric constraints on the age of Hells Canyon, testing lithospheric foundering in NE Oregon.	University of Oregon	(U-Th)/He

2015 AGeS Recipients

Student	Proposal Title	Institution	Technique
Mariana Bonich	Developing novel methods to link source rock to sediment sink: overcoming the 'stepladder effect'	Syracuse University	(U-Th)/He
Aaron Bufe	Investigating deformation in the wake of the Yellowstone hotspot using markers along the Snake River	University of California Santa Barbara	Luminescence
Jaime Delano	Understanding earthquake-cycle contributions to uplift and incision of the southern Olympic Mountains, WA	Western Washington University	Luminescence
Shelby Fredrickson	A geomorphic investigation of the tectonic transition between the Santa Barbara and Ventura folds belts near Rincon Point, California	University of California Santa Barbara	Luminescence
Victor Guevara	Durations and rates of Archean high temperature metamorphic implications for continental stabilization and early Earth tectonics	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	U-Pb TIMS
Sean Kinney	Re-evaluating the White Mountain magma series through high-precision zircon U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry	Columbia University	U-Pb TIMS
Stephen Nguyen	Is there evidence in the magmatic record from a high-standing plateau in the Great Basin?	Texas Tech University	U-Pb LA-ICP-MS
Barbara Ratschbacher	Timescales of shallow-level pluton construction via fractionation and crystal-melt separation - implications for the volcanic-plutonic connection and upper crustal differentiation	University of Southern California	U-Pb TIMS
Trevor Waldien	Neogene deformation at a Mesozoic terrane margin in the eastern Alaska Range, Alaska	University of California, Davis	(U-Th)/He
Randolph Williams	Dating using the diagenetic record of the earthquake cycle, Loma Blanca Fault Zone, Socorro Basin, NM	University of Wisconsin - Madison	U-series

James Chapman (UAZ) works in the lab during an AGeS project.

James Chapman (UAZ) works in the lab during his AGeS project.