2021 Student Research Grant Awardees

Students submitted applications outlining proposed research topics aligned with the mission of SEPM and its science objectives. The below students were awarded research grants this past year. We look forward to highlighting their work to our membership!

2021 Awardees

MS Awards
Last Name	First Name	School	Proposal
Birkett	Brooke	Missouri University of Sci & Tech	Exploring the impacts of Maya occupation on lacustrine environments, Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala
Bunce	Lauren	Binghamton University.	What Drives Formation of Modern Spring Deposits at the Great Salt Lake?
Chacón Buitrago	Nataly	Colorado School of Mines	Automated Facies recognition using digital outcrop models and Machine Learning
Clark	Timothy	University of Mississippi	The Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of Paleocene-Aged Bauxites in North Mississippi
Coholich	Marianne	Stanford	Mechanisms of sand depositionwithin the Lucia Chica Channel System, offshore California, U.S.A.: Implications for petroleum reservoir developmentand geohazards
Crowell	Jennifer	University of Ohio	Climate-Induced Changes in Fluvial Ichnofossil Assemblages of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Appalachian Basin
Coutret	Baptiste	University Rennes (France)	Environmental controls on trace fossil distribution from the early Cambrian Le Rozel Formation in Normandy, NW France: Integrating sedimentologic and ichnologic datasets to unravel the early metazoan evolution of an unexplored area
Friend	Justin	New Mexico Tech	Determining the extent, degree, and mechanisms driving albitization of detrital K-feldspar from Early Permian (Wolfcampian) nonmarine strata throughout New Mexico
Giles	Katelyn	University of Memphis	Investigating alongshore sediment transport and mixing in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico using detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology
Hartstein	Amanda	University of Nebraska	Microplastics in the Sediment of the Platte River in Nebraska
Heinhuis	Youp	Utrecht University (Netherlands)	Using drone imaging, 3D software, and facies analysis to reconstruct the architecture of a deepwater biosiliceous ramp, Triassic-Jurassic, McCarthy Formation, Alaska
Kapolas	Alethea	University of Iowa	Comparison of geochronologic and geochemical provenance proxies in the Cook Inlet Basin, south central Alaska
Kilmury	Aaron	University of Manitoba (Canada)	Vertebrate Faunal Assemblages of the Late Cretaceous Manitoba Escarpmentin Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada
Martinez	Priscilla	California State University Northridge	The Origin and Correlation of Mafic Volcaniclastic Intervals in the Pleistocene Marine Sedimentary Succession Recovered During Expedition 385, Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California
Rutledge	Randolph	George Mason University	Paleo-oxygenation and uranium isotope behavior in Lower Mississippian black shales of North America
Slade	Noah	Utah State University	The Sedimentology of Wahweap Creek and its Tributaries: Linking Mammoths, Climate, and Incisions Records in Southern Utah
Stauffer	Eric	Northern Arizona University	Pennsylvanian-permian Mixed Carbonate-siliciclastic Deposition and Astrochronology Along the Continental Slope of Western Laurentia
Young-Dahl	Erin	University of Idaho	Reconstructing Eocene paleotopography across the northern United States Cordillera using stable isotope paleoaltimetry of hydrated volcanic glass
Zaffino	Noah	University North Carolina Wilmington	Millennial-scale paired inorganic and organic carbon record of theLate Devonian punctata event

PhD Awards
Last Name	First Name	School	Proposal
Alasad	Rawan	University Texas Austin	Characteristics of gravelly sediment gravity flows in alluvial fans and fan-deltas of synrift deposits of the Valecito -Fish Creek Basin, Gulf of California rift
Beelen	Daan	Colorado School of Mines	Channel and dun earchitectures of seismic-scale, tide-dominated deltas in outcrop, Rifian Corridor, Morocco
Boan	Philip	University California Riverside	Filling in the Spaces: spatial patterns and ecology of the Ediacara Biota
Brophy	Shannon	University Southern California	Comparing the Biotic Response of Methane Seep Paleocommunities to Environmental Perturbations Across Time and Space
Bruce	David	Virginia Polytechnic Institute	Quantifying Coseismic Land-level Change Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone in Central Oregon
Cassady	Victoria	University Southern California	Examining Microbe-Mineral Arrangement in Actively Lithifying Microbialites
DePaolis	Jessica	Virginia Polytechnic Institute	Investigating the earthquake rupture history of the Cascadia subduction zone using coastal lacustrine diatoms, Lake Ozette, Washington, USA
Hashim	Mohammed	Western Michigan University	Iodine Incorporation into Dolomite: Experimental Constrains on the Iodine Paleo-redox Proxy
Krizova	Barbora	University Ferrara (Italy)	The Occurrence and Demise of Rudists Bivalves in the Upper Cretaceous Carbonate Platforms of the peri Adriatic Area
LaGrange	Maya	University Alberta (Canada)	Understanding global marine paleo-redox conditions during deposition of the Middle to Late Devonian Horn River Group, Northwest Territories, Canada
Laker	Rachel	University Chicago	Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis in the Upper Cretaceous of Big Bend National Park
Lonsdale	Mary	Johns Hopkins University	An Investigation of the Distribution and Composition of Early Cambrian Archaeocyathan Reefs in Esmeralda County, Nevada.
Mccraw	Jessie	University Alabama	Paleobiology and paleoenvironment of ammonites using stable isotope geochemistry
Menozza da Rosa	Eduardo	University Wisconsin Milwaukee	The paleogeography of the Paraná-Huab-Kaokoveld Basin during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
Metz	James	Old Dominion University	Sediment Budget and Dynamics in aForested Sub-Basin of the Sundarbans National Forest, Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh
Mottin	Thammy	Federal University of Paraná (Brazil)	Paleoenvironment, sedimentary dynamic sand paleoecology of a lycopsid fossil forest buried in the early Permian (Brazil)
Northrup	Dustin	University of Iowa	Fingerprinting the fluvial-tidal transition zone using facies analysis and elemental chemostratigraphic approaches
Palafox	Luis Erick Aguirre	University California Davis	Building a U-Pb geochronologic framework for the Pennsylvanian Midcontinent cyclothems, U.S.A.
Parrish	Ethan	University Wisconsin	A Tale of Two Rivers: a Source-to-sink Comparative Analysis of the Aspen and Idaho Paleoriver Systems
Romero	Mariah	Montana State University	Evaluating the thermal history of Cretaceousstrata from the Great Valley Forearc basin, California using detrital low-temperature thermochronology
Shekut	Samuel	University British Columbia (Canada)	The Altiplano - How tectonics and climate shape our environment
Thoresen	Haley	University of Idaho	Eocene Basin Record of Metamorphic Core Complex Exhumation in the Western United States Cordillera
White	Emily	Texas A&M University	Provenance and Crustal Evolution of the Bolivian Retroarc Thrust Belt: Insights from Combined Detrital Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopes
White	Stephanie	Baylor University	Paleoecological Response to Extrinsic Mechanisms During the Pennsylvanian-Permian Transition, Paradox Basin, SE Utah