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Geology Graduate and Undergraduate Student Scholarship

2024 2024

Effects of Experimental Freeze-Thaw and Wet-Dry Weathering Cycles on Fluvial Abrasion Rates, Finn Coffin

Timing of subduction initiation and deformation history of amphibolite and blueschist in the Easton metamorphic suite, Northwest Cascades, Washington, Nick S. Cunetta

Using Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions to Better Understand the Transcrustal Architecture Beneath Mount Baker (Koma Kulshan), North Cascades, Washington, Amanda Florea

Velocity structure of the Queen Charlotte Fault across the 2013 Mw 7.5 Craig earthquake region, Lazaro Valentin Garza

Strain localization during subduction and accretion of regional blueschist facies units in the Easton metamorphic suite, NW Cascades Washington, Emily Gates

The Origin of Float Rocks on the Western Fan Front in Jezero Crater, Mars, Bavani S. Kathir

High Resolution Seafloor Structure of the Gofar Oceanic Transform Fault, Paige Koenig

An Assessment of Historical and Future Bluff Recession in Puget Sound, WA, Callie Little

Imaging of the shallow crustal structure across the region of the 2013 Mw 7.5 Craig Earthquake with high-resolution seismic streamer tomography, Emma Martin, Andrew Gase, and Emily Roland

Reconstructing vegetation cover during the retreat of the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet using organic matter from marine sediment cores, Emily McQuarrie

Miss Americana & The Queen Bey: A Seismic Analysis of Synchronous Crowd Movement at Lumen Field Concerts in Seattle, WA, Karenna A. Merritt

Deglacial and Holocene environmental change recorded in lake sediments from the Snowy Mountains, Kosciuszko National Park, southeastern Australia, Emma J. Mickelson

Stuck in the Middle – Dacitic Eruptions through Time at Three Sisters, Oregon, Alex Newsom

Vanishing Volcanics: Mass Wasting Deposit Heterogeneity, with Implications for Rapid Downstream Abrasion, Brian Pinke

Active Deformation at the Transition from Subduction to Oblique Collision in the Culverden Basin, Aotearoa New Zealand, Josh Sayre

Paleocurrent dispersion applied to constrain channel planform morphology of ancient river systems, Anthony Semeraro

2023 2023

Understanding potential reservoir interconnectivity between two contemporaneous volcanoes during the onset of cone-building activity, Middle Sister and South Sister, Central Oregon, Emma Calvert

An Analysis of Clinopyroxene Reaction Rims as Assimilation Chronometers at Cinder Cone Volcano, Lassen National Volcanic Park, California, Annabelle Carozza

Investigating Kīlauea’s 2018 Offshore Lava Emplacement Through Hydroacoustic Data, Olana Costa

Modeling the Effects of Projected Climate Warming on Stream Temperatures in the Stillaguamish River Basin, Emily Esther Gebheim Smoot

Shared Roots: A geochemical investigation of basaltic andesites to understand magmatic cogenesis at the Middle Sister and South Sister volcanoes, central Oregon, Sean Francis Halstead

Using Camera-Monitored Sediment Traps to Evaluate Sediment Availability and the Role of Waves in Resuspending Seafloor Sediment, Bellingham Bay, WA, Liam Horner

Silicon and Oxygen in Earth’s Core: Applications of Machine Learning to Metal-Silicate Equilibria and Core Formation, Ruben Keane

Using Chemical Zoning in Minerals to Understand Magmatic Processes at Augustine Volcano, Alaska, Sloane Kennedy

U-Pb Zircon Geochronology and Structure of regional blueschist units in the Easton metamorphic suite, Northwest Cascades, WA, Katherine Lang

Paleomagnetic Determination of Vertical Axis Block Rotation near the Doty Fault in southwestern Washington, Charles Linneman

Does sediment supply impact the threshold for initial sediment motion in natural, gravel bedded streams?, Emily Loucks

Using trace element concentrations in volcanic ash to elucidate magma sources to Koma Kulshan’s (Mount Baker) most recent explosive eruption – the 6.7 ka BA (black ash) tephra, Stone Machel

Quantifying Channel Change Following Post-Fire Debris Flows in a Steep, Coastal Stream, Big Sur, California, Telemak Olsen

Modeling 21st Century Peak Flows in the Nooksack River Basin in Northwestern Washington State Using Dynamically-Downscaled Global Climate Model Projections, Evan A. Paul

Using Two Coeval Andesites from Middle Sister and South Sister, Oregon, as Clues to Understanding Connectivity Between Adjacent, Coincident Stratovolcanoes, James Peale

Connections between eruption style and magmatic reservoir evolution: Insights from Augustine Volcano, Alaska, USA, Mahinaokalani G. Robbins

A Mixed-Methods Study of Geoscience Identity, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender in Senior Undergraduate Geoscience Majors, Willa Rowan

Biomarker study of Bellingham Bay : identifying how urbanization has affected carbon storage and eelgrass, Jess Shulman

Reconstructing wildfire regime during the warm Paleocene-Eocene climate using molecular biomarkers from the Chuckanut Formation in northwest Washington, U.S.A., Alexandra Elise Thompson

Using Mineral Magnetism to Characterize Compositions of Fe-Ti Oxide Phases of the Sulphur Creek Lava Flow (Kulshan), Elika Zilis

2022 2022

A Field Guide to Jezero Crater, Mars, Lee Adair

Testing Potential Triggering Mechanisms of Long-runout Catastrophic Rock Avalanches in the Nooksack River Basin, Whatcom County, Washington, Eric R. Brown

Reconstructing deglacial and Holocene climatic and environmental change in the Snowy Mountains of southeast Australia, Aidan Warner Burdick

The Mountain In Our Backyard, Jordan Craft and Nathan Knoch

Spectral Variability in Naturally Weathered Rock Surfaces and Implications for Mars, Sabrina Curtis

A Mastcam Multispectral Investigation of Rock Variability in Gale Crater, Mars: Implications for Alteration in the Clay-Sulfate Transition of Mount Sharp, Alivia Eng

Glacier Peak and the Chocolate Factory: Recurring debris flows from the eastern flank of Glacier Peak stratovolcano, North Cascades, Washington State, USA, Edward M. Fordham

Using crystal zoning, thermobarometry, and MELTS to elucidate Koma Kulshan’s (Mt. Baker) transcrustal magma storage system, northern Cascade arc, Brendan Garvey

To Erupt or Not to Erupt? That is the Question: Extremely High Levels of Background Seismicity and Lack of Eruptivity from 2003-2019 at Gareloi Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Kiana Tamarie Harris

Forearc erosion in response to megathrust plate coupling along the Wairarapa Coastline, New Zealand, Chantel E. Jensen

Eruption Evolution of West Mata Volcano, NE Lau Basin Using Hydroacoustic and Video Data, Mikkel Shanice Louis

Extraction and Interpretation of Fatty Alcohols in the Chuckanut Formation, Ellis Lower

Magnetic Methods to Characterize the Emplacement of the Nodule Point Intrusion (Marrowstone Island, WA), Charlie Nuncio

Cycles or Repetitions: A Quantitative Analysis of Alluvial Bed Thicknesses, Kristopher D. Phillips

Modeling 21st century peak streamflows in the Stillaguamish Watershed using dynamically downscaled general circulation model projections, James Marcell Robinson

Structural History of the Bald Mountain Mining District, Nevada, USA, David Paul Ryan

Structural History of the Formidable-Le Conte Mountain Area, North Cascades, WA, Nyle Weldon

2021 2021

Marine Ecosystem Response to Late Pleistocene Rapid Climate Change in the Salish Sea, Alex Victor Hernandez

Reidentifying Sources of Tephra in the Izu-Bonin Arc: Recognizing Recent Rear-arc Volcanism 1.1 – 2.7 Ma, Cassandra King

Floodplain response to Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 in the southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A., Eve Lalor

Martian Spectroscopy: Laboratory calibration of the Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z and photometric investigation of Mars-analog ferric-coated sand, Kristiana Lapo

Evaluating thresholds in fluvial response to the Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 in the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, U.S.A), Grace Marie Sutherland

Grain size variability spanning the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in Laramide Basins: Reconstructing paleoslopes and overbank erodibility, Delaney Todd

Populations of Major Phases in Glacier Peak Lavas, Charlotte Wall

Provenance of early Paleogene strata in the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, U.S.A.): Implications for Laramide tectonism and basin-scale stratigraphic patterns, Jessica L. Welch

Revaluating the use of mollusks for estimating paleodepth in the Pacific Northwest, E Worthington

2020 2020

Slip rates and kinematics of active crustal faults in the central Oregon Cascades, Katherine Alexander

Timing and Conditions of Metamorphism in the Cascades Crystalline Core from Garnet Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd Geochronology, Peter Baker

Potential Triggering Mechanisms of Long-Runout Catastrophic Rock Avalanches in the Nooksack River Basin, Whatcom County, Washington, Eric Brown

Modeling the effects of climate change on streamflow and stream temperature in the South Fork of the Stillaguamish River, Katherine Mary Clarke

Calibration optimization of a stream temperature model applied to the Nooksack River, Ian Edgar

Bio-preservation Potential of Sediment in Eberswalde crater, Mars, Cory Hughes

Paleomagnetic and Structural Analysis of Geothermal Drill Core from Akutan, Alaska, Molly Kathleen Johnson

Testing the potential for using Structure from Motion photogrammetry methods to estimate seasonal mass balance on lower Easton Glacier, Mount Baker, WA, Elizabeth Kimberly

Wave runup and morphologic change on a mixed-sediment beach in the Salish Sea, WA, Avery Maverick

Crystal Mush Dynamics of Mount St. Helens and Lassen Volcanic Center: Insights from Melt Inclusions and Titanium-In-Quartz Thermobarometry, Jeremy S. Rosen

Using Multispectral Imagery to Interrogate Deposition, Alteration, and Weathering Across Curiosity Rover’s Traverse in Gale Crater, Mars, Christina Seeger

Auto-stratigraphic evolution of experimental crater-fill basins: Implications for interpreting Mars sequence stratigraphy and paleoclimate, Lexie Stodden

The Past is the Key to the Present: Reconstructing Changes in Seasonal Precipitation Triggered by Ancient Climate Change, William Ward

2019 2019

Modeling the effects of climate change on streamflow and stream temperature in the South Fork of the Stillaguamish River, Katherine Clarke

Slip and strain accumulation along the Sadie Creek fault, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, Cody Duckworth

Quantifying the magnitude and spatial variability of bedrock erosion beneath the Sisters Glacier, Washington, using cosmogenic 3He concentrations, Sarah W. Francis

Modeling the Effects of Climate Variability on Hydrology and Stream Temperatures in the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, Kyra Freeman

Photometric investigations of weathering rinds and coatings with implications for Mars, Kathleen Hoza

Seismic Structure of Tanaga Island, Alaska, Kevin F. (Kevin Francis) Lally

Testing Models of Subduction Initiation and Metamorphic Sole Formation in the Easton Metamorphic Suite, NW Cascades, Katherine Lang

Increased Hydrologic Variability Near the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary (Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, U.S.A.)), Anna Lesko

Paleomagnetic results from Upper Triassic and Middle Jurassic strata of east-central New Mexico, and implication for North American APWP, Masoud Mirzaei Souzani

Validation of Predicted Tsunami Inundation for the Inland Coast of the Salish Sea Associated with Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes, Paige Morkner

Assessing Coastal Vulnerability to Storm Surge and Wave Impacts with Projected Sea Level Rise within the Salish Sea, Nathan R. VanArendonk

Clinopyroxene trace element chemistry as a proxy for magma compositional variations in the Izu Bonin rear arc over the last 15 million years, Kimberly N. (Kimberly Nicole) Wurth

2018 2018

Biomonitoring in Seattle: Spatial Variation and Source-Determining of Airborne Pollutants in High-Traffic Areas, Saba Asefa

Testing ¹⁰Be Exposure Dating of Holocene Cirque Moraines using Glaciolacustrine Sediments in the Sierra Nevada, California, William Cary

Visible-to-Near-Infrared Spectral Variability of Hydrated Sulfates and Candidate Mars Landing Sites: Implications for the Mastcam-Z Investigation on NASA’s Mars-2020 Rover Mission, Darian Dixon

Sediment transport processes of modern beach sediments revealed by magnetic anisotropy fabrics, Katrina Garner

Diversity and Petrogenesis of Rhyolites from an Intra-oceanic Arc: Evidence from IODP Site U1437, Izu Bonin Rear-arc and Surrounding Area, Luan J. (Luan Jean) Heywood

The Effects of Forecasted Climate Change on Mass Wasting Susceptibility in the Nooksack River Basin, Kevin Knapp

Geologic Development and Ongoing Activity of the Van Zandt Landslide Complex, Northwest WA, USA, Geoffrey Malick

Collecting Spectra from Gale Crater on Mars, Natalie Moore

Mineralogic and Stratigraphic Analysis of Mount Sharp in Gale Crater, Mars, Amanda Rudolph

Chemical and Morphological Variance in Vitriclastic Shards from IODP Site U1437: Inferences about Source Regions and Eruptive Mechanisms, Larissa Sleeper

Metamorphic Evolution of the Sierra de Maz: Implications for the Timing of Terrane Accretion on the Western Margin of Gondwana, Andrew Tholt

Modeling the Effects of Climate Change on Stream Temperature in the Nooksack River Basin, Stephanie E. Truitt

2017 2017

A Climactic Unimak Island Caldera-Forming Eruption, Aleutian Arc, Alaska: Magma storage and pre-eruption P-T-fO2-H2O conditions of the rhyodacite magma, Olivia E. (Olivia Eliška) Anderson