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Through 2008, the TRGS is proud to have awarded $22,000 in scholarships to students from more than a dozen schools.
Recipients are strongly encouraged to present their results at TRGS Field Conferences.

Warren Grice presented his TRGS-supported work as a poster.
Emily Geraghty shared her supported research on two field trips.
Part of Eric Stewart's field area.
Setting for Zachary Coppa's project.
Map of part of Cara Harwood's California field area.
  • 1995: Casey Kipf, Montana State University (TRGS) - Thrust faulting in the Beaverhead Mountains:--is the basement fundamentally or incidentally involved?
  • 1996: Steve Porder, University of Montana (Harrison) - Kinematic test of thrust rotation for the Lewis—Hoadley—Eldorado Plate near Wolf Creek
  • 1997: Thomas Kalakay, University of Wyoming (TRGS) - Structural and thermochronologic study of the Pioneer batholith, southwest Montana: A test of the critical taper wedge model in the Sevier Orogen of southwest Montana
  • 1997: Brian Collins, University of Montana (Harrison) - Stratigraphy of the Wallace Formation near Superior
  • 1998: Robert A. Houston, Oregon State University (TRGS) - Is the Butte ore deposit tilted or not? A field geology study designed to resolve models of 5-12 degrees vs. >25 degrees of post-ore tilting
  • 1998: Joshua T. Goodman, University of Montana (Harrison) - Detailed geologic mapping of Belt rocks in the SW and SE Missoula quadrangles
  • 1999: Julia Murphy, University of Florida (TRGS) - Geochronology of synkinematic plutons in the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt, southwest Montana
  • 1999: James D. Bigger, Eastern Washington University (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Waulsortian mounds, carbonates, and geologic mapping of the Green Ashley Gulch quadrangle, Big Snowy Mountains, central Montana
  • 1999: Sam Coyner, University of Florida (TRGS) - The role of partial melting and magmatism during late orogenic extension, Bitterroot Metamorphic Core Complex, Montana/Idaho
  • 2000: Robert Houston, Oregon State University (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Is the Butte ore deposit tilted or not? A field geology study designed to resolve models of 5-12 degrees vs. >25 degrees of post-ore tilting
  • 2001: Mark Pollack, University of Tennessee, (Harrison) - Morphological variation in “molar-tooth” carbonate: Implications for genesis and substrate rheology
  • 2001: Julie Kickham, Utah State University (TRGS) - Temporal and kinematic evolution of intrabasinal extensional folds in Grasshopper basin, southwest Montana
  • 2001: Matthew Buoniconti, University of Miami (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Sequence stratigraphic distribution of reservoir and source rock facies in Mississippian ramp-to-basin carbonates, Idaho
  • 2002: Rebecca Kunz, University of Montana (TRGS) - The shonkinite intrusions of Garrison, Montana: A possible extension of the Adel Mountains Volcanics
  • 2002: Grant S. Sha, Washington State University (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Anorthosites, medium to high-grade metamorphic rocks, and localized shear bands: A strain gradient profile map of Monumental Buttes/Goat mountain, St. Joe National Forest, northern Idaho
  • 2002: Eric Burtis, University of Montana (Harrison) - The geochemistry and geochronology of a Neoproterozic sill complex in northwestern Montana: Implications for the Belt Basin
  • 2003: Matthew Hoffer, University of Idaho (TRGS) - Geologic mapping of the Careywood 7.5’ quadrangle, northern Idaho
  • 2004: Emily Geraghty, University of Montana (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Jurassic-aged fractures and grikes in Mississippian carbonate: Implications for fractured hydrocarbon reservoirs, Rocky Mountain Thrust Front
  • 2004: Nancy E. Oyer, Montana Tech (Harrison) - Precambrian talc and quartz in upper amphibolite facies marbles of Archean age in the Gravelly and Ruby Ranges, Montana
  • 2004: Quintin Overocker,University of Tennessee (Harrison) - Origin of breccias in the Wallace Formation, Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup, Montana and Idaho
  • 2004: Warren Grice, University of Florida (TRGS) - Late Cretaceous to Eocene exhumation of the Anaconda metamorphic core complex, southwest Montana
  • 2005: Joshua Richards, University of Florida, Age and isotopic composition of Precambrian mafic dikes in the Wyoming Province: Window into the evolution of subcontinental lithosphere (TRGS)
  • 2005: Kelly Probst, University of Florida, Assessing Precambrian crust through a geochemical investigation of Mesozoic plutons in the northwestern Cordillera: Implications for continental reconstruction (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship)
  • 2005: Andy Brehm, Utah State University, Geologic mapping of the Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group, Uinta Mountains, Utah (Harrison)
  • 2006: Julian G. McCune, University of Montana, Cenozoic Sedimentary Basin Evolution and Hydrostratigraphic Assessment of the Upper Blackfoot River Basin, Western Montana (TRGS)
  • 2006: Erin Haney, University of Montana, P-T Paths of Metamorphic Pelitic Rocks in the Anaconda Metamorphic Core Complex (TRGS)
  • 2006: Brandon Mijal, Western Washington University, Holocene glacial chronology for the Sawtooth Range, Idaho (TRGS)
  • 2006: Heather M. Henry, University of Montana, Mapping of the Rocky Mountain Front Triangle Zone, Montana (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship)
  • 2006: John MacLean, University of Montana, Stratigraphic analyses to test the Siberia-Laurentia connection (Harrison)
  • 2006: Amy Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Using biomarkers to analyze biogeochemical changes across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary (Harrison)
  • 2007: Kevin Lielke, University of Montana, Paleoenvironmental and tectonic reconstruction of Tertiary lake deposits in the Ruby and Madison basins of southwestern Montana (TRGS)
  • 2007: Daniel Rybczynski, Utah State University, CORRELATION, PALEOGEOGRAPHY, AND PROVENANCE OF THE EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAIN GROUP, GOSLIN MOUNTAIN AREA, NORTHEASTERN UTAH (Harrison)
  • 2007: Abigail E. Stephens, Oregon State University, The Lights Creek Stock copper deposits: porphyry Cu or evaporitic-source Cu Fe-oxide mineralization? (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship)
  • 2007: James F. Glover, III, Washington State University, Detrital zircon geochronology and mineralogy of Bonneville Flood deposits along the Snake River, Idaho: Provenance and sediment dispersal patterns of megafloods (TRGS)
  • 2007: Jennifer L. McHarge, University of Wyoming, Origins of Amalgamated Channel Sand Bodies in the Lance Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (TRGS)
  • 2007: Daniel Jones, University of Wyoming, Mapping of the Big Creek Gneiss, Southern Sierra Madre, Wyoming (Harrison)
  • 2008: Eric Stewart (TRGS) Idaho State University: Geologic mapping in the Allan Mountain Quadrangle, east-central Idaho
  • 2008: Timothy Nesheim (Harrison) Univ. of Iowa: Are 1.1 Ga deformational fabrics present in metasedimentary rocks of the Belt Supergroup, northern Idaho?
  • 2008: Richard M. Gaschnig (General Assistance) Washington State Univ.: Zeroing in on basement terrane boundaries in central Idaho using inherited zircons from the Idaho batholith
  • 2008: Cara Harwood (Harrison) University of California ar Davis: Stromatolites and microbial bioherms from the Neoproterozoic Beck Spring Dolomite of southern California
  • 2008: K.D. Gray (TRGS) Univ. of Idaho: Post-accretionary modification of the ocean-continent isotropic boundary in the northern Rocky Mountains, and the implications of superposed shear zones
  • 2008: Brady Z. Foreman (TRGS) Univ. of Wyoming: Fluvial response to abrupt climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Bighorn and Piceance Creek Basins
  • 2008: Eric E. Baar (General Assistance) Washington State Univ.: Regional-scale detrital zircon provenance study of the Middle to Late Ordovician Eureka Quartzite, east-central Idaho
  • 2008: James F. Glover III (General Assistance) Washington State Univ.: Detrital zircon geochronology of Bonneville Flood deposits along the Snake River, Idaho: Implications for sediment dispersal patterns of megafloods
  • 2008: Zachary J. Coppa (TRGS) Washington State Univ.: Differentiating the Bonneville Flood deposits from the Missoula Flood deposits using U-Pb geochronology and mineralogical analysis from Lewiston, Idaho, to Wallula Gap, Oregon
  • 2008: Nigel Davies (TRGS) Western Washington Univ.: The Holocene glacial history of the Upper Green River Basin, Wind River Range, Wyoming
  • 2008: Bailey Elkins (General Assistance) Univ. of Montana: Mapping of kinematics within the Lewis and Clark Line using GPS geodesy
  • 2008: Michael R. Johnson (General Assistance) Univ. of Wyoming: Paleoclimate reconstruction through stable isotope analysis of soil carbonates in the southwestern Wyoming Washakie Basin