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Geosciences acknowledges the following individual honors,
awards, and achievements.
Spring 2009
- Guleed Ali, undergraduate student,
received an American Geological Institute Minority Scholarship for
the 2008-2009 academic year.
- Madison Barkley, graduate student, received the 2009 College of Science
Outstanding Mentor/Teaching Assistant Award.
- Julio Betancourt, adjunct Geosciences
professor and USGS scientist, received the prestigious 2008 Presidential
Rank Award.
- Julia Cole, professor, was recently promoted to full professor in Geosciences.
- Ana Collins, graduate student,
received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Andrew Frassetto, graduate student, received the 2009
College of Science Outstanding Scholar Award.
- Sarah Ivory, graduate student, received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Renata Jasinevicius, graduate student, received the 2009 College of Science Outstanding
Mentor/Teaching Assistant Award.
- Andrew Kowler, graduate student, won a GSA Research Award for
his project “Paleoclimatic
Reconstructions for the Southwest from LGM to Present Using Pluvial
Lake Shorelines.”
- Lepolt Linkimer, graduate student, received the 2009 College of Science Outstanding
Service Award.
- Kendra Murray, graduate student, received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Jill Onken, graduate student, won a GSA Research Award for her
project “Late
Holocene Alluvial Cycles, Landscape Change, and Climatic Controls
in the Carrizo Wash Watershed of West-central New Mexico.”
- Cody Routson, graduate student, received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Alyson Thibodeau, graduate student, received the 2009 College of Science Outstanding
Service Award.
- Sarah Truebe, graduate student, received a National Defense Science and Engineering
Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship.
- Hinako Uchida, graduate student, won the North American prize for best crystallographic
paper in any science discipline for her work on MgO inclusions in
spinel.
Fall 2008
- Guleed Ali, undergraduate student, received a scholarship from the
National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists.
- Margaret Blome, graduate student, received
a DOSECC Internship to examine East African lake records and investigate
African paleoclimate history during the Pleistocene.
- Pete DeCelles, professor, received the Laurence L. Sloss
Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sedimentary Geology from the Sedimentary
Geology Division of GSA. The
Sloss Award is given annually to recognize the lifetime achievements
of one sedimentary geologist. For the full story, see http://uanews.org/node/21726.
- Roy Johnson, professor, received a ConocoPhillips Faculty Sponsorship
for the 2008-2009 academic year. Only sixteen awards were made nationally
in all fields supported by ConocoPhillips; only two awards were made
to geoscientists.
- Kevin Jones, graduate student, received the Richard Hay Award for
best student paper from the Archaeological Geology Division at the
2008 GSA meeting.
- Paul Kapp, associate professor,
received the GSA’s Young Scientist Award. The award
is given to scientists 35 years old or younger for “outstanding
achievement in contributing to geologic knowledge through original
research, that marks a major advance in the Earth sciences. The award
consists of
a gold medal called the Donath Medal and a cash prize of $20,000.
For the full story, see http://uanews.org/node/21727.
- Edgar McCullough, professor emeritus, received
a President’s
Citation award from the UA for Transformative Department Head Leadership.
The award formally recognized Ed’s vision, courage, standards,
and effectiveness in launching the Geosciences Department to international
prominence during his tenure as Geosciences Department Head from
1970 to 1982.
- Alexander Rohrmann, graduate student, received a Farouk El-Baz
Student Research Award at the 2008 GSA meeting to encourage and promote
desert research.
Spring 2008
- Susan Beck, professor,
has been named chairwoman for the Incorporated Research Institutions
for Seismology’s (IRIS)
board of directors. She also received the 2008 Outstanding Faculty
Award from the Geosciences Advisory Board.
- Meg Blome, graduate student,
received a FLAS fellowship (Foreign Language and Area Studies) to
continue studying Arabic next year. The award is funded through the
US Dept. of Education and given by the UA Center for Middle Eastern
Studies (CMES).
- Julia Cole, professor, received a 2008
fellowship from the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program.
- Jessica Conroy, graduate
student, received a $7,000 scholarship from the Phoenix Chapter of
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS).
- Pete DeCelles, professor, received a
Cox Visiting Professorship at Stanford University for one year.
- Bob Downs,
professor, will be co-investigator
of the CheMin component of the Mars Science Laboratory for NASA’s
2009 Rover mission.
- C. Vance Haynes, Regents
professor of Anthropology and Geosciences, received a Career Achievement
Award from the Geosciences Advisory Board and the Department of Anthropology.
- Paul Kapp,
professor, will receive the
2008 Donath Medal for young scientists at the annual GSA meeting
in Houston this October.
- Alena Kimbrough, undergraduate
student, received a Mellon Interdisciplinary Environmental Research
fellowship to support her work for the next two years on drought
in the Southwest.
- Jonathan Overpeck,
professor, testified
before a hearing of the US House of Representatives’ Committee
on Science and Technology titled “Water Supply Challenges for
the 21st Century,” on
May 14, 2008.
Fall 2007
- Andy Cohen, professor, [with Lisa
Park (PhD ’95), Peter Reinthal (EEB), David Dettman, and others]
had a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “Ecological
consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa.” PNAS
2007, v 104, # 42, pp.16422-16427.
- Robert Dietz, graduate student,
received a travel award from ISPE.
- Charlene Estrada, undergraduate
student, received the Association for Women Geoscientists 2007 Minority
Scholarship.
- Mike McGlue, graduate student,
received the Kerry Kelts Award Outstanding Student Award in the Limnogeology
Division of the Geological Society of America.
- Rachel Novak, graduate student,
received an American Geological Institute Minority Geoscience Scholarship.
- Jon Pelletier, professor,
received a new grant from NASA: “Evaluating hypotheses for
glaciation on Mars: A multiinstrument and numerical modeling approach.”
- Eric Seedorff and Susan
Beck, professors, co-chaired the very successful Ores
and Orogenesis Symposium sponsored by the Arizona Geological Society.
Spring 2007
- Vance Holliday, professor, was
on Arizona Illustrator (KUAT Channel 6, Public Television) talking
about his research in Russia that was published in the journal Science.
- Jay Quade, professor, received
a Galileo Circle Fellowship for faculty research.
- Jon Pelletier, professor, was offered
a joint faculty appointment in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
- Lynn Peyton, graduate student,
received a scholarship from the Colorado Scientific Society and a
Courtright Scholarship from the Arizona Geological Society.
Fall 2006
- Andy Cohen, professor, was awarded
a Senior Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institute to support his
sabbatical research from August 2006 through June 2007.
- Jessica Conroy, current PhD Student,
was invited to present her research at the International Young Scientists
Global Change Conference in Beijing, China, in November.
- Karl Flessa, professor, was named
a Centennial Fellow for The Paleontological Society at the annual
meeting of the Geological Society of America in October 2006.
- Lynn Peyton, current PhD Student,was
awarded a Colorado Scientific Society grant and a Geological Society
of America grant.
Spring 2006
- Toby Ault, current PhD Student,
was selected to receive an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Erica Bigio, current MS student,
was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Switzerland.
- Carlos Cinta-Buenrostro, PhD 2006,
has been hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry
and Environmental Science at the University of Texas at Brownsville.
- Karl Flessa, professor, was awarded
a Mary K. Upson Visiting Professorship in the Department of earth
and Atmospheric sciences at Cornell University for the Fall semester
of 2006.
- Facundo Fuentes, current PhD student,
was selected to receive an AAPG Grants-in-Aid funding for his research.
- Tamara Goldin, current PhD student,
recently received the best student presentation award at the "Impact
Craters as Indicators for Planetary Environmental Evolution and Astrobiology" conference
in Sweden.
- Michael McGlue, current PhD student,
was selected to receive an AAPG Grants-in-Aid funding for his research.
- Kathleen Nicoll, PhD 1998, has
been hired as an assistant professor in the Geography Department
at the University of Utah.
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