Past Scholarship Winners

2024 - $12,500 in total scholarships

Lauren Bergeron (Harrison), University of Chicago, Sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Mesoproterozoic glauconite-rich Shepard and Mt. Shields Formations of the Lower Missoula Group
Wyatt Everhart (TRGS), Kansas State University, Using geochemical and Sr-Nb isotope data to evaluate the petrogenesis of Eocene to Oligocene basalts from the Dillon volcanic field, Montana, USA
Lucas Forster (Foster), Colorado School of Mines, Alteration mineralogy and lithogeochemistry of the Hog Heaven Mine, northwestern Montana
Riley Henson (TRGS), University of Montana, Quantifying geomorphic resilience in rivers to hydroclimatic extreme events
Emily Jackson (Skipp), University of Georgia, Paleosols and sequence-stratigraphic architecture: a test in the Cloverly Formation of Wyoming
Akshay Jayachandran (TRGS), University of Connecticut, Cenozoic climate and fire connections in the North American Cordillera
Ashlesha Khatiwada (TRGS), Colorado State University, Examining the mass balance process of very small glaciers
Hanna Konavaluk (Harrison), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Into the changing world of the Mesoproterozoic: characterizing the paleoenvironment of the Belt Supergroup
Natali Kragh (Skipp), Montana State University, Determining the relationship between contemporaneous late Cretaceous volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, southwestern Montana
Zach Morrow (Stillwater), Montana State University, A structural analysis of Sevier and Laramide style deformation, southwestern Montana
Emma Tombaugh (Skipp), Utah State University, Testing models of Yellowstone landscape evolution through chronostratigraphy of Shoshone river terraces
Daniel Vega (TRGS), Idaho State University, Unraveling Mesozoic crustal thickening in the Sevier hinterland, North America: structural mapping and geochronology of the Basin-Elba fault, Albion Range, Idaho

2023 - $10,000 in total scholarships

Skye Bensel (TRGS), Boise State University, Examining Seasonal Variations of Subsurface Water Storage in the Critical Zone with Geophysical Imaging
Zac DeLuca (TRGS), University of Montana, Hydrogeomorphic Response to Severe Flooding in Yellowstone National Park
Samantha Khatri (TRGS) University of Georgia, The relationship of aggradation rate and fluvial architecture: a test in the Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of Montana and South Dakota
Ariana Miranda (Skipp), Temple University, Paleosols of Florissant Fossils Beds National Monument, central Colorado
Olivia Moehl (Belt Association), Dartmouth College, Are the Appekunny and Greyson Formations Correlated? A study using litho- and magnetostratigraphy
Cade Orchard (TRGS), University of Georgia, Nonmarine stratigraphy and community response to transgression: a test in the Cloverly Formation of Wyoming
Mollie Pope (Sibanye-Stillwater), University of Wyoming, Apatite as an indicator of water content in magmatic source regions
Brett Steck (Kleinkopf), University of Montana, Microseismic mapping of the aftershock sequences following the magnitude 5.8 Lincoln, MT earthquake
Adam Trzinski (Harrison), University of Wyoming, Exhumation history of the Granite Mountains, Wyoming - Insights from the Battle Springs Formation
Jack Willard (TRGS), Utah State University, Testing Patterns of Uplift from the Yellowstone Hotspot Along the Gallatin River, SW Montana

2022 - $10,000 in total scholarships

Mikelia Heberer, University of Utah: An Investigation into Ontogenetic Shell Shape and Ornamentation Variation Among Juvenile Western Interior Seaway Scaphite Ammonoids in Eastern Montana and Central South Dakota (TRGS Scholarship)
Kayla Irizarry, Penn State University: Did persistently low oxygen conditions slow diversification during the Cambrian? (Skipp Scholarship)
Ashlesha Khatiwada, University of Montana: Analyzing the multipath of GNSS time series to study snow properties (Kleinkopf Scholarship)
Jon Lever, Idaho State University: Tightening the Belt: New age and provenance constraints on Proterozoic strata in east-central Idaho (Belt Scholarship)
Anna Marshall, Colorado State University: Sources and Functions of Spatial Heterogeneity in Determining Channel Evolution of Large Mountain River (TRGS Scholarship)
Carlos Montejo, University of Idaho: Quantifying Exhumation Related to the Approach of the Yellowstone Hotspot Using Detrital Thermochronology on mid-Miocene to Present Sediments in the Gallatin Valley, Gallatin County, Montana (TRGS Scholarship)
Sarah Morse, University of Arkansas: Constraining the regional impact of the Mesoproterozoic Picuris orogen using high temperature deformation and metamorphism in the Wet Mountains, Colorado, USA (Harrison Scholarship)
Emma Palko, Norther Arizona University: High-resolution lacustrine and geochronologic investigation into the tectonic and paleogeographic origins of the Wagon Bed Formation, central Wyoming (TRGS Scholarship)
Sarah Risedorf, MT Tech: Evaluation of carbonatite hosted rare earth elements deposit in Sheep Creek, southern Ravalli County, Montana (Foster Scholarship)
Mia Wafer, Montana State University: Exploring the relationships between faulting and geothermal systems:Structural Controls on the Norris Hot Spring, Southwest Montana (Skipp Scholarship

2021 - $15,000 in total scholarships

Carsen Adams (TRGS), University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Crystallographic Vorticity Analysis of the Slide Lake and Homestake Shear Zones, Central Colorado
Elijah Adeniyi (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), Montana State University: Field Sampling of the Upper Devonian Duperow Formation CO2 and other gasses within Kevin Dome's Petroleum Systems, Northwest Montana, for Genetic Origin Investigation
John Allard (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals) Montana Tech: Geology, Mineralogy, Geothermometry and Stable Isotopes of the Lowry Deposit, Black Butte Copper Project, Meagher County, Montana
Chris Baird (Belt Association), Montana State University: Reinvestigation of the sedimentary processes, depositional environments, and provenance of the Mesoproterozoic LaHood Formation near Whitehall, MT
Celine Beaucamp (Foster), Montana Tech: Economic Geology Study of the Philipsburg District, Granite County, Montana
Elliot Blake (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), University of Georgia: Using sequence stratigraphy to predict vertebrate trackways in coastal settings: Jurassic Gypsum Spring and Sundance Formations, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A.
Megan Borel (Skipp), University of Florida: Characterization of a basement-involved thrust in the footwall of the Pioneer Metamorphic Core Complex: implications for deep levels of the Sevier thrust belt and Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic stratigraphy
Dana Drinkall (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), Idaho State University: Predicting and Monitoring Landslide Hazards Along Railway Corridors in Northern Idaho using UAV LiDAR
Courtenay Duzet (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals; Kleinkopf), University of Montana: 1D Crustal Velocity Model for West Central Montana
Alyssa Endrich (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), Kansas State University: Snake River Plain volcanism north of the Yellowstone hotspot track?: Petrogenesis of Cenozoic basalts from the Centennial Valley and vicinity, southwest Montana
Caden Howlett (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), University of Arizona: Low-Temperature Thermochronology of the Little Belt Mountains of Central Montana with Implications for models of Laramide Tectonism
Joshua Lingbloom (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), Idaho State University: The First Inventory and Geostatistical Analysis of Landslides in Grand Teton National Park
Bryce Neal (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), Montana State University: Mechanisms and timing of tectonic attenuation in the Georgetown Thrust Zone: A new map of the Carpp Ridge 7.5’ quadrangle, Anaconda Range, SW Montana
Carolina Ortiz-Guerrero (TRGS), University of Florida: Documentation of Mesoproterozoic thermal events in Belt Supergroup rocks in the Pioneer Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, using U-Pb geochronology of monazite
Stephanie Plaza-Torres (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), University of Colorado, Boulder: Looking for δ13C evidence of C₃-C₄ intermediate plant presence in the Green River Formation Paleo Lake Uinta
Allison Reid (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), Stockton University: Geologic mapping of the Mount Powell Batholith, western Montana
Eric Scheumann (Harrison) University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee: Strain development and partitioning across a transpressional shear zone along a quartzite- metagabbro contact in the Black Hills Orogeny, South Dakota
Anthony Semeraro (TRGS,) Western Washington University: Paleocurrent Dispersion applied to calculating channel morphology of ancient river systems: Stratigraphic Case Study through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
Haley Thoresen (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), University of Idaho: Eocene Basin Record of Metamorphic Core Complex Exhumation in the western United States Cordillera
Han Truong (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Tracing Proterozoic crustal contributions in felsic magmas in the Colorado Mineral Belt
Chloë Weeks (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), University of Idaho: Quantifying the reach of the Yellowstone plume through cooling histories
Emily White (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), Texas A&M University: Petrogenetic evolution during Cordilleran orogenesis: Constraints from the North American Cordillera
Kayla Young (Sibanye-Stillwater-Wheaton Precious Metals), University of Wyoming: Controls and characteristics of hydrothermal platinum-group element mineralization in the Medicine Bow Mountains of southeastern Wyoming
Erin Young-Dahl (TRGS), University of Idaho: Reconstructing Eocene hinterland high topography of the northern U.S. Cordillera using stable isotope paleoaltimetry of hydrated volcanic glass

2020 - $8,000 in total awards

Ethan Costello (Foster), Colorado State University: Mafic Rocks associated with ores of the Boulder Batholith, Southwestern Montana
Stuart Parker (TRGS), Idaho State University: Response of exhumation to basin geometry
in the Idaho/Montana fold-thrust Belt
Carlos Montejo (TRGS) Montana Tech: Quaternary geology of portions of the McGregor Peak, Marion, Murr Peak, and Hubbart Reservoir 7.5’ quadrangles, Flathead County, Montana
Haley Thoresen (Skipp), University of Idaho: Basin record of the initiation of extension and core complex exhumation in western Montana and southeast Idaho
Erin Young-Dahl (TRGS), University of Idaho: Using stable isotope paleoaltimetry of hydrated volcanic glass to reconstruct Eocene paleotopography across the northern United States Cordillera
Matthew Ellison (TRGS), Utah State University: The biggest snowball fight in Earth history: Sequence stratigraphy, facies analysis, and geochronology of the Cryogenian Pocatello Fm, SE Idaho, USA
Chance Ronemus (Harrison), Montana State University: Reconstructing the Proterozoic-recent thermal history of the Beartooth Mountains, Montana
Shannon Ahern (Kleinkopf), Stockton University: Geologic mapping of the Mount Powell Batholith, western Montana
Rudolph Engel (Kleinkopf), Stockton University: Petrophysical characterization of the Mount Powell Batholith, western Montana
Gibson - TRGS Field Course Award for Excellence - Jessica Welder, University of Oregon:

2019 - $11,000 in total awards

Caden Howlett (Foster), Montana State University: Determining the relationship between magmatism, exhumation, and gold mineralization in the Anaconda Metamorphic Core Complex using detrital and igneous zircon geochronology, western Montana
Crenshaw (Skipp), University of Montana: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of gedrite-anthophyllite-cordierite gneisses in the NW Wyoming Province
Joel Dietrich (TRGS), Montana Tech: Stratigraphic and Structural Analysis of the North Flint Creek Range near Gold Creek, Montana
Matthew Ellison (Harrison), Utah State: How complete is the Snowball Earth record in SE Idaho? Sequence stratigraphy and facies analysis of the Pocatello Formation
"Eve Lalor (Skipp), Western Washington University: Scaling of environmental responses to multiple Eocene global warming events in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming"
Kelly Helmer (Foster), Montana State University: Structural geology of hydrothermal breccia pipes as potential hosts for mineral deposits and hydrocarbon reservoirs in central Montana
Jacob Milton (Harrison), Idaho State University: Geologic Relations of the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian Wilbert Formation, Lost River Range, East-Central Idaho
Michael Kipp (Harrison), University of Washington: A stable isotope study of nutrient cycling in the Cryogenian Pocatello Formation, Idaho
Brandi Lawler (TRGS), University of Wyoming: A Spatial and Temporal Study of Mafic Volcanism Across the Yellowstone Plateau: Petrology, Geochemistry, and Geochronology of the Basalts
Nate Mitchell (TRGS), Indiana University: Field Mapping of Fracture Density within Mesoproterozoic Gneiss of the Belt Supergroup and its Relationship with Bedrock River Morphology and Erosion near Shoup, ID
Jacob Palmer (TRGS), Montana Tech: Structural Analysis of the Gold Creek Area
Brianna Rick (Kleinkopf), Colorado State University: Rock glaciers as climate resilient cold-water reservoirs in Rocky Mountain alpine basins
Justin Rosenblume (TRGS), University of Iowa: Tectono-stratigraphic history and multi-proxy provenance of a Cretaceous broken foreland basin in southwest Montana
Grace Sutherland (TRGS), Western Washington University: Thresholds in fluvial response to ancient global warming events in Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
Megan Tarmichael (TRGS), University of Montana - Western: The effects of beaver on lateral channel migration in Southwest Montana
Kelly Thomson (TRGS), UT Austin: Effects of hydraulic sorting on detrital zircon age spectra and sediment mixture modeling: Insights from the Upper Missouri River
Rachelle Turnier (Harrison), University of Wisconsin-Madison: Genesis and Timing of Corundum Formation in Southwest Montana
Allie Ann Wolverton (TRGS), Rocky: The growth of Earth's early continents: Kinematics and timing of a suture zone within the northern Wyoming Province of North America
Gibson - TRGS Field Course Award for Excellence – Balee Olds, University of Utah; Kody Wedell, University of California-Davis

2018 - $8,000 in total awards

Alexander Brown (Foster), Montana Tech: Understanding the Geology and Geochemistry of Ore Formation at the Golden Chest Mine
Garett Brown (TRGS), University of Georgia: Testing for ecological gradients in the lower Mississippian Lodgepole Formation, Montana, U.S.A.
Andrew Del Turco (Harrison), Stockton University: Thermodynamic evolution of the Wyoming Province: application of quartz c-axis analysis to constrain the kinematics and temperature of deformation recorded in the Jewel Lake quartzite, southwestern Montana
Alexander Flores (Kleinkopf), Stockton University: Petrophysical characterization of the North Snowy Block, southwestern Montana: application of rock magnetism to understanding Precambrian tectonics
Richard M. Hess (TRGS), University of Georgia: The Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture of the Upper and Middle Jurassic Stump and Preuss Formations, Western Wyoming and Eastern Idaho, USA
Leah Houser (TRGS), Utah State University: Textural and thermochronologic constraints on the role of friction generated heat on silica-rich fault mirror surfaces of the Brigham City Segment, Wasatch fault zone, Utah
Kimberly Kramer (TRGS), Washington State University: Quantifying paleo-peak geothermal field gradients within three ranges in eastern Nevada
Derek Lichtner (TRGS), University of Wyoming: Assessing Sediment Preservation Completeness using Mass Conservation and Depositional Signal Inversion: Wasatch Formation, Southwest Wyoming
Evan Martin (TRGS), University of Idaho: Assessing the topographic evolution of the North American Cordillera in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana during Tertiary time
Sierra Swenson (Skipp), University of Georgia, Athens: Integrated sequence stratigraphy and paleobiology of the Sundance Seaway, Montana, USA
Jacob Thacker (TRGS), University of New Mexico: The spatiotemporal evolution of Laramide deformation: An integrated geologic and thermochronologic study
Matthew Wanker (TRGS), Indiana University: Dynamics of sediment transport through a river bifurcation
Gibson-TRGS Field Course Award for Excellence - No Nominees

2017 - $8,000 in total awards

Andrew Canada (TRGS), University of Idaho: The Eocene Elko Formation: A Paleogeographic Record of High-Elevation Lake Basin Formation and Topographic Evolution in the North American Cordilleran Hinterland
Philip Dalhof (Foster), Colorado State University: Mapping of hydrothermal alterations in the Boulder Batholith and related igneous rocks using a pXRF
Garrett Hill (Harrison), Montana Tech: Using fluid inclusions and C, O, H and Sr isotopes to understand the genesis of dolomite-hosted talc mineralization in Montana
Erin Lathrop (Harrison), Utah State University: Capturing changes in the Mesoproterozoic carbon cycle: C-isotope stratigraphy of the 1255 Ma Bass Formation, Grand Canyon Supergroup, AZ
Zachary Lettenga (Foster), Montana Tech: Prospecting Placer Gold in Libby Creek
Jacob McCane (Foster), Colorado State University: The Petrogenesis of Lamprophyric Rocks of the Absaroka Volcanic Province and their Association with Gold Mineralization
William Moynihan (TRGS), Idaho State University: Paleontology and sequence stratigraphy of the near-shore facies of the Permian Phosphoria Formation in the Teton, Gros Ventre, and Wind River ranges, Wyoming
Ashely Provow (Skipp), Utah State University: Reconstructing paleofluidrock interactions using electron microprobe dating of authigenic monazite in Neoproterozoic sandstones
Jacob Thacker (TRGS), University of New Mexico: Regional tectonic analysis of Laramide orogenesis using field studies, apatite fission track, and (U-Th)/He thermochronology
Richard Trippe (Harrison), University of Montana: Geology of a structurally-inverted graben of possible Cambrian age, southern Pioneer Mountains, southwestern Montana
Matthew Wanker (TRGS), Indiana University: Tracking sediment through a river bifurcation on the Jefferson River, MT
Mike Zawaski (TRGS), University of Colorado at Boulder: Stromatolites as chemical and isotopic probes of paleoenvironmental conditions during the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
Gibson-TRGS Field Course Award for Excellence - No Nominees

2016 - $7,000 in total awards

Andrew Canada (TRGS), University of Idaho: The Tectonic Evolution of High-Elevation Lake Basins in the Cordilleran Hinterland
Hunter Anderson (Harrison), Rocky Mountain College: Structure, emplacement and petrography of mafic Leopard Dikes in the Beartooth Range, Montana
Nora Dwyer (Harrison), University of Montana: Petrology and geochronology of Precambrian metasedimentary rocks within the Clearwater complex, north-central Idaho
Sarah Wright (TRGS), University of Georgia: Distinguishing sequence boundaries from other erosional surfaces: A case study from the Windy Hill Sandstone, Wyoming, USA
Nathan Anderson (TRGS), Idaho State University: Mapping through the lens of regional geology. Correcting and reinterpreting our understanding of the southern Beaverhead Mountains
Abram Barker (TRGS), University of Arkansas: Structural Evolution of Melrose basin: Impact on Cenozoic Gravel Distribution
Erin Lathrop (Harrison), Utah State University: Capturing changes in the Mesoproterozoic carbon cycle: C-isotope stratigraphy of the 1255 Ma Bass Formation, Grand Canyon Supergroup, AZ
Shane Fussell (Foster), University of Montana: Structural Configuration of a Triangle Zone Culmination: Dearborn River, Montana
Jordan Allen (TRGS), Montana State University: Impacts of glacial processes on nitrogen cycling in the Beartooth Mountains, Montana
Laura Cuccio (Harrison), Utah State University: The Precambrian-sedimentary rock nonconformity: hydromechanical implications for injection-induced seismicity
Ben Schubert (Foster), Montana Tech: Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Heddleston Porphyry Deposit
Gibson-TRGS Field Course Award for Excellence - Shane Amen, Idaho State University

2015 - $8,500 in total awards

Alexandra Adams (TRGS Scholarship), University of Idaho: Isotopic fractionation of light elements – Reconstructing past elevations in east Idaho and southwest Montana
Cody Bodman (TRGS Scholarship), Montana State University: Effects of hanging-wall anticline growth on a Lare Cretaceous marine alluvial fan-delta system, Cordilleran Thrust Belt front, SW Wyoming
Kyle Eastman (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship), Montana Tech: Understanding the geology and geochemistry of the bedrock source of acidic streams at Mt. Evans, Anaconda Range, Western Montana
Sara Edinberg (TRGS Scholarship), Montana Tech: Natural acid rock drainage chemistry related to geology of the alkaline intrusions of the Judith Mountains of central Montana
G. Graham Ellsworth (TRGS Scholarship), University of Memphis: Fracture relationships and the timing of the Heart Mountain allochthon
Nicholas Fox (Harrison Scholarship), Montana State University: The Mesoproterozoic LaHood Formation: Provenance and tectonic environment of deposition
Nicholas Krohe (TRGS Scholarship), Idaho State University: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician sandstone provenance west of the Lemhi Arch: Implication for rift geometry of the Laurentian passive margin
Robert McDermott (TRGS Scholarship), Utah State University: A multichronometer approach to documenting ancient seismicity along the Wasatch Fault Zone, Utah
Joshua Messenger (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship), Montana Tech: Skarn paragenesis and the temporal relationship of scheelite mineralization at Calvert Mine, Pioneer Mountains, MT
Stuart Parker (TRGS Scholarship), University of Montana: Deformed river gravel of the southern Beaverhead Mountains; Neotectonic implications
Luke Schwab (TRGS Scholarship), University of Idaho: Reservoir characterization of the Logan Gulch Member of the Three Forks Formation in western Montana
Charles Shobe (TRGS Scholarship), University of Colorado: Mapping rockfalls and understanding canyon evolution on the Clarks Fork Yellowstone River, Northern Wyoming
Daphne Tuzlac (TRGS Scholarship), Utah State University: Mapping, correlating, and dating terraces to understand incision and uplift resulting from the Yellowstone Hotspot—Snake River Canyon, Wyoming
Michael Vineyard (TRGS Scholarship), Montana Tech: Sequence stratigraphic correlation of the Bow Island Formation using surface outcrop and subsurface data, Glacier and Toole Counties, north-central Montana
Gibson-TRGS Field Course Award for Excellence - Jordan Jensen, Utah State University

2014 - $9,000 in total awards

Leif Anderson (TRGS Scholarship), University of Colorado: Absolute Chronology of Pre-Illinoisan glacial advances in the Rocky Mountains
Lori Babcock (TRGS Scholarship), Montana State University: Structurally controlled diagenesis of upper Devonian (Frasnian Stage) dolomite: southwest and north central Montana and southern Alberta
Jack Borski (TRGS Scholarship), Montana State University: Depositional Setting, Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis, and Diagenetic Evolution of the Devonian-Mississippian Transition in Western Montana
Peter Christophersen (TRGS Scholarship), University of Montana: Deformational and thermal history of the Bitterroot mylonite constrained by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and Ti-in-quartz (TitaniQ) thermometry
Anna Downey (TRGS Scholarship), Kansas State University: Quaternary mafic volcanism in the upper Wind River Basin, WY
Victor Guevara (TRGS Scholarship), Virginia Tech: Laurentia’s oldest granulites? Probing for metamorphic evidence of continental collision on early Earth
Tyler Hagan (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship), Montana Tech: Characterization of Precious Metals in the Emigrant Mining District in Park County, Montana
Leif Knatterud (TRGS Scholarship), Montana Tech: Geophysical investigation of the structural geology in the Avon Valley, west-central Montana, using gravity and seismic reflection profiling
Elyse Rector (TRGS Scholarship), University of Montana: The origin and significance of a green sandstone in the Eagle Formation in south-central Montana
Aaron P. Rodriguez (TRGS Scholarship), University of Idaho: Lateral facies and thickness change of the Devonian-Mississippian Sappington Formation along inverted margins of the Central Montana Trough, Three Forks, Montana
Chris Rogers (Harrison Scholarship), Carleton University: Geochemistry and Geochronology of ca. 1460 Ma Mafic Magmatic Nodes of the Laurentian Craton: Characterization of Plume and Lithosphere Activity below Laurentia
Sarah P. Slotznick (TRGS Scholarship), Cal Tech: Coupled microscale techniques to investigate the petrogenesis of iron-bearing minerals in the Prichard Formation, Belt Supergroup, MT and ID
Julian Stahl (TRGS Scholarship), Montana State University: Fracture analysis of circum-Bighorn Basin anticlines, Wyoming-Montana
Gibson-TRGS Field Course Award for Excellence - No Nominees

2013 - $7,000 in total awards

Lori Babcock (TRGS Scholarship), Montana State University: Structurally controlled diagenesis of the Devonian Duperow Formation and related upper Paleozoic units, north-central Montana
Alexander Brekke (TRGS Scholarship), University of Montana: Sequence Stratigraphic and Reservoir Analysis of the Cretaceous Eagle Formation in South-central Montana
Jonathan J. Calede (TRGS Scholarship), University of Washington: Taphonomy and biostratigraphy of the Oligo-Miocene Cabbage Patch beds of Montana
Drew Cramer (Harrison Scholarship), University of Montana: Tectonothermal evolution of the western margin of Laurentia: Archean to Proterozoic metamorphism in the Ruby Range, southwest Montana
Victor Guevara (TRGS Scholarship), Virginia Tech: Deciphering the tectonic mechanisms of extreme crustal heat flux during Neoarchean orogenesis in the Teton-Wind River domain, NW Wyoming, USA
Sarah Jeffrey (TRGS Scholarship), Montana State University: Subsurface characterization of reservoir facies associated with brittle deformation features, Big Snowy Uplift, MT
Robert Livesay (TRGS Scholarship), University of Montana: Investigating Upstream Channel Response to Dam Removal, Blackfoot River, MT
Robert Mahon (TRGS Scholarship), University of Wyoming: Are short-timescale climate signals preserved in sedimentary basins? An integrated field study on Seminoe Reservoir, WY
Jessica Meyers (TRGS Scholarship), Idaho State University: Eocene upper-crustal deformation accompanying low-angle mid-crustal extensional deformation
Lauren Schricker (TRGS Scholarship), Allegheny College: Paleogene Fluvial Dispersal and Provenance Relationships near the Frontal Margin of the Anaconda Metamorphic Core Complex, Southwest Montana
Mary K. Todt (TRGS Scholarship), Idaho State University: Sedimentary provenance and U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic analysis of zircon grains from the Worm Creek Quartzite, Idaho and their potential magmatic source: Implications for Cambrian passive margin sedimentation
James Wallace (TRGS Scholarship), Indiana University: Structural evolution of the J-Fold Anticline; A multi-scalar approach to modeling kinematic fold evolution in the Cordilleran fold-thrust belt, southwest Montana
Gibson-TRGS Field Course Award for Excellence - Daniel Morel, Macalaster College and Holly Young, Idaho State University

2012 - $5,000 in total awards

Zachary Adam (Harrison Scholarship) Montana State University: Characterizing the Mesoproterozoic microfossil record of the Belt Supergroup, Montana
Neal Auchter (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) University of Montana: Interpretation of coastal incision fill deposits in the Santonian-Campanian Eagle Formation, south-central Montana
Whitney Bausch (TRGS Scholarship) University of Montana: Timing and extent of post-orogenic magmatic and tectonic events in the northern Cordillera: Petrogenetic and kinematic investigation of an Eocene dike swarm, southwest Montana
Lane Boyer (TRGS Scholarship) University of Arkansas: Highland Gneiss Dome
Jessie Chadwick (TRGS Scholarship) Montana State University: Metamorphism, Anatexis, and Deformation in Metasupracrustal Enclaves in the Spanish Peaks, Madison Range, SW Montana: Evidence of Cryptic 2.55, 2.45 or 1.8 Ga Thermotectonic Events
Cailey Condit (Harrison Scholarship) University of Colorado: Integrated geologic history of the Archean rocks of the Madison Range, Montana: implications for lower crustal deformational processes and the assembly of Laurentia
Breanna Hennessy (TRGS Scholarship) Montana State University: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Livingston Group in Central Montana
Sarah Jeffrey (TRGS Scholarship) Montana State University: Structurally-controlled diagenesis of Paleozoic reservoir rocks exposed in the Little Belt Mountains and Big Snowy Uplift, Montana
Lauren Kay (TRGS Scholarship) Montana State University: Tectonic deformation as a taphonomic process: using fossilized bones as strain indicators
Tetsuro Nagase (TRGS Scholarship) University of Montana: Investigating depositional processes and sedimentary environments of Late Devonian organic-rich mudrock of the Bakken Formation, central Montana
Laura Neser (TRGS Scholarship) University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: The timing of Laramide deformation in the northern Rocky Mountains
Jacob Thacker (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Montana State University: Structural and mineralogic characterization of the South Prairie fault in the Stillwater Complex, Beartooth Mountains, MT
Stephanie Wafforn (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Oregon State University: Structural Geology of the Mount Polley porphyry copper district: Reconstruction of post-mineral faults and tilting for the purpose of future exploration

2011 - $3,500 in total awards

Neal Auchter (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) University of Montana: Analysis of incised channels in the Late Cretaceous Eagle Formation, south-central Montana
Whitney G. Bausch (TRGS Scholarship) University of Montana: Structural and thermochronological analysis of a lithologically-varied dike swarm, southwest MT
Eduardo Francisco Guerrero (TRGS Scholarship) Oregon State University: Quantification of the landscape evolution over a mantle hot spot: deconvolving the uplift and geomorphic history of the Shoshone River drainage and the Yellowstone Crescent of High Terrain over the past 2 Ma.
Victor Guevara (Harrison Scholarship) University of Montana: Constraints on the Structural and Thermal Evolution of the Clearwater Metamorphic Core Complex, ID
William Thomas Jackson, Junior (TRGS Scholarship) University of Memphis: Paleoseismites of the Elk Basin anticline: Indicators to early-formed joint development and fold growth during paleoseismic events
Samantha Kaster (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) University of Montana: Analysis of a marine transgression in the Cretaceous Eagle Formation in south-central Montana
Lauren Kay (TRGS Scholarship) Montana State University: Tectonic deformation as a taphonomic process: using dinosaur bones as strain indicators
Anita Moore-Nall (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Montana State University: Physical and chemical characterization of brecciation and U-V mineralization in the Madison Limestone and adjacent units, Big Pryor Mountain mining district, Montana -Little Mountain mining district, Wyoming
Laura Neser (TRGS Scholarship) University of North Carolina: The timing of Laramide deformation in northwestern Wyoming
Daniel L. Ross (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Montana State University: Structural Geology of the North-Half of the Swift Reservoir Culmination, Northern Sawtooth Range, Montana

2010 - $7,600 in total awards

Janice Brahney (TRGS Scholarship) University of Colorado: Influence of historical dust and N deposition on the biogeochemistry of alpine lakes in the western USA
Ryan Carter (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) University of Montana: An architectural analysis of a laterally accreting paleoform for reservoir fluid modeling in the Cretaceous Eagle Formation sandstone, south-central Montana
Skye Cooley (TRGS) Utah State: Co-evolution of the Pleistocene Bear River and Pluvial Lake Bonneville
Evan Gearity (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Montana State: Geology of the Marysville mining district
Matt Haacker (Harrison Scholarship) University of Montana: Petrogenesis and age of meta-anorthosites in the northern Cordillera of western Montana
Austin S. Hart (TRGS) Western Washington University: Sedimentology, magneto-stratigraphy, and stable isotope stratigraphy of Rocky Mountain synorogenic deposits: Unroofing of the Beartooth Plateau
Gordon Hicks (Harrison) University of Tennessee, Knoxville: The Curecanti pluton - an unusual Proterozoic intrusive body in context
Adam Johnson (TRGS) University of Montana: Testing the Bulge: Use of Neogene Bedrock Paleo-valleys to Test Models of the Yellowstone Thermal Dome and Related Deformation
Kera A. Judy (TRGS) University of Memphis: Layer parallel shortening: a mechanism for determining deformation timing in the Little Water Syncline of the Tendoy thrust sheet of the Cordilleran fold-thrust belt, southwestern Montana
Mort Larsen (TRGS) Montana State: Reactivation(?) of Laramide structures by the 1959 Ms7.5 Hebgen Lake-Red Canyon earthquake sequence, Montana
Kevin Lielke (TRGS) University of Montana: Paleogeographic, stratigraphic and paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Paleogene Renova formation of Southwestern Montana
Helen Lynn (TRGS) Montana State: Hydrocarbon and CO2 entrapment in the Stewart Peak culmination, northern Salt River Range, Wyoming: migration pathways and reservoir characterization
Robert C. Mahon (Harrison) Idaho State: Geologic Map of the Saddle Peak Hills 7.5' Quadrangle and Sedimentology and Age Constraints of the Meso-Neoproterozoic Pahrump Group, Death Valley, California
Laura Neser (TRGS) University of North Carolina: The timing of Laramide deformation in northwestern Wyoming
David Reioux (Harrison) University of Montana: Metamorphic evolution of the southern Highland Mountains, Montana, and implications for the reconstruction of Laurentia
Jill Sotendahl (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Montana Tech: Economic geology of the Madison Gold copper-gold skarn deposit, Silver Star, Montana
Eleanor Spangler (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) University of Montana: Evaluation of a Massive Sandstone Unit in the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Formation in South Central Montana
Liane Stevens (TRGS) University of Montana: The Priest River Metamorphic Core Complex: Addressing a Gap in the Understanding of the Origin and Exhumation of Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes
Whitney Treadway (TRGS) Montana State: Geologic Characterization of Modern CO2 Accumulations in Parts of the Idaho-Wyoming Fold-and-Thrust Belt
Zackary S. Wall (TRGS) University of Montana: Tracking the uplift of Yellowstone's thermal dome in SW Montana

2009 - $2,500 in total awards

Laura Neser (TRGS) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Changes in Shortening Directions during the Laramide Orogeny in Northwestern Wyoming
Jennifer N. Gifford (Harrison) University of Florida: A New View into the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle of the Great Falls Tectonic Zone
Jennifer Rothfuss (TRGS) University of Alabama: Cenozoic landscape evolution of a post-compressional orogenic wedge: Intermontane basin development and sediment dispersal patterns, Renova Formation, southwest Montana
Warren Roe (TRGS) University of Montana: Tertiary Paleogeography and Sedimentology of the Big Hole Basin, Southwestern Montana
Jennifer L. Manion (TRGS) Washington State University: The Older Epithermal System in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Chelsea Carmichael (TRGS) Loma Linda University: Evaluation of Newly Discovered Stromatolites and Associated Microbial Carbonates Occurring in Springs Near Brisco, British Columbia

2008 - $4,350 in total awards

Eric Stewart (TRGS) Idaho State University: Geologic mapping in the Allan Mountain Quadrangle, east-central Idaho
Timothy Nesheim (Harrison) Univ. of Iowa: Are 1.1 Ga deformational fabrics present in metasedimentary rocks of the Belt Supergroup, northern Idaho?
Richard M. Gaschnig (General Assistance) Washington State University: Zeroing in on basement terrane boundaries in central Idaho using inherited zircons from the Idaho batholith
Cara Harwood (Harrison) University of California at Davis: Stromatolites and microbial bioherms from the Neoproterozoic Beck Spring Dolomite of southern California
K.D. Gray (TRGS) University of Idaho: Post-accretionary modification of the ocean-continent isotropic boundary in the northern Rocky Mountains, and the implications of superposed shear zones
Brady Z. Foreman (TRGS) University of Wyoming: Fluvial response to abrupt climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Bighorn and Piceance Creek Basins
Eric E. Baar (General Assistance) Washington State University: Regional-scale detrital zircon provenance study of the Middle to Late Ordovician Eureka Quartzite, east-central Idaho
James F. Glover III (General Assistance) Washington State University: Detrital zircon geochronology of Bonneville Flood deposits along the Snake River, Idaho: Implications for sediment dispersal patterns of megafloods
Zachary J. Coppa (TRGS) Washington State University: Differentiating the Bonneville Flood deposits from the Missoula Flood deposits using U-Pb geochronology and mineralogical analysis from Lewiston, Idaho, to Wallula Gap, Oregon
Nigel Davies (TRGS) Western Washington University: The Holocene glacial history of the Upper Green River Basin, Wind River Range, Wyoming
Bailey Elkins (General Assistance) University of Montana: Mapping of kinematics within the Lewis and Clark Line using GPS geodesy
Michael R. Johnson (General Assistance) University of Wyoming: Paleoclimate reconstruction through stable isotope analysis of soil carbonates in the southwestern Wyoming Washakie Basin

2007 - $3,000 in total awards

Kevin Lielke, University of Montana: Paleoenvironmental and tectonic reconstruction of Tertiary lake deposits in the Ruby and Madison basins of southwestern Montana (TRGS)
Daniel Rybczynski, Utah State University: Correlation, paleogeography, and provenance of the eastern Uinta Mountain Group, Goslin Mountain area, northeastern Utah (Harrison)
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)
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)
Jennifer L. McHarge, University of Wyoming: Origins of Amalgamated Channel Sand Bodies in the Lance Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (TRGS)
Daniel Jones, University of Wyoming: Mapping of the Big Creek Gneiss, Southern Sierra Madre, Wyoming (Harrison)

2006

Julian G. McCune, University of Montana: Cenozoic Sedimentary Basin Evolution and Hydrostratigraphic Assessment of the Upper Blackfoot River Basin, Western Montana (TRGS)
Erin Haney, University of Montana: P-T Paths of Metamorphic Pelitic Rocks in the Anaconda Metamorphic Core Complex (TRGS)
Brandon Mijal, Western Washington University: Holocene glacial chronology for the Sawtooth Range, Idaho (TRGS)
Heather M. Henry, University of Montana, Mapping of the Rocky Mountain Front Triangle Zone, Montana (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship)
John MacLean, University of Montana: Stratigraphic analyses to test the Siberia-Laurentia connection (Harrison)
Amy Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Using biomarkers to analyze biogeochemical changes across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary (Harrison)

2005 - $1,500 in total awards

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)
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)
Andy Brehm, Utah State University: Geologic mapping of the Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group, Uinta Mountains, Utah (Harrison)

2004 - $2,000 in total awards

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
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
Quintin Overocker,University of Tennessee (Harrison): Origin of breccias in the Wallace Formation, Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup, Montana and Idaho
Warren Grice, University of Florida (TRGS): Late Cretaceous to Eocene exhumation of the Anaconda metamorphic core complex, southwest Montana

2003 - $500 in total awards

Matthew Hoffer, University of Idaho (TRGS): Geologic mapping of the Careywood 7.5’ quadrangle, northern Idaho

2002 - $1,500 in total awards

Rebecca Kunz, University of Montana (TRGS): The shonkinite intrusions of Garrison, Montana: A possible extension of the Adel Mountains Volcanics
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
Eric Burtis, University of Montana (Harrison): The geochemistry and geochronology of a Neoproterozic sill complex in northwestern Montana: Implications for the Belt Basin

2001

Mark Pollack, University of Tennessee, (Harrison): Morphological variation in “molar-tooth” carbonate: Implications for genesis and substrate rheology
Julie Kickham, Utah State University (TRGS): Temporal and kinematic evolution of intrabasinal extensional folds in Grasshopper basin, southwest Montana
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

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
Cal Ruleman, Montana State University, Bozeman: Late Quaternary Slip Rates on Range-bounding Normal Faults, North Arm of the Yellowstone Tectonic Parabola, Southwest Montana

1999

Julia Murphy, University of Florida (TRGS): Geochronology of synkinematic plutons in the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt, southwest Montana
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
Sam Coyner, University of Florida (TRGS): The role of partial melting and magmatism during late orogenic extension, Bitterroot Metamorphic Core Complex, Montana/Idaho

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
Joshua T. Goodman, University of Montana (Harrison): Detailed geologic mapping of Belt rocks in the SW and SE Missoula quadrangles

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
Brian Collins, University of Montana (Harrison): Stratigraphy of the Wallace Formation near Superior

1996

Steve Porder, University of Montana (Harrison): Kinematic test of thrust rotation for the Lewis—Hoadley—Eldorado Plate near Wolf Creek

1995

Casey Kipf, Montana State University (TRGS): Thrust faulting in the Beaverhead Mountains:--is the basement fundamentally or incidentally involved?

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