AWARDS
CSUB 2019 West Coast Student Expo
This was the first year that PS SEPM sponsored the student presentation awards at the Expo
PhD award
1st place Peng Zhou - Louisiana State University
Geophysics Award
1st place – Robert Hernandez - SDSU
2nd place – Scott Pantaleone – University of Alaska Anchorage
BS Award
Eneas Andrade Torres – CSU Bakersfield
MS Awards
1st place - Cameron Gernant - UC Santa Barbara
2nd place - Obeyd Mohammadi - CSU Bakersfield
3rd place – Allison Franco – CSU Northridge
MEMBER AWARDS
A. Eugene Fritsche Lifetime Achievement Award
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Conferred yearly on high profile nominees (professionals in industry and academia) for years of committed service and contributions to PS-SEPM and the geologic community in terms of teaching, research and publications, public service, and field trips
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Award consists of a plaque and recognition at a Pacific region conference
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Prerequisite for nomination: PS-SEPM Honorary Membership
2018 Mario Caputo and Robert E. Garrison
2017 Raymond V. Ingersoll and Thomas Anderson
2016 Ivan Colburn
2013 John Crowell
2012 Donn Gorsline
2011 Al Fischer
2010 Reinhard Suchsland
2008 Patrick L. Abbott
2003 John Cooper
2001 A. Eugene Fritsche
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Nominees should be selected equally from both industry and academia
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For cumulative years of outstanding service to PS-SEPM in terms of offices held, length of term, field trips led, and papers published with PS-SEPM
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Award consists of a plaque conferred during fall field trip or conference held in year of nomination
2018 Kathy Marsaglia and Steve Graham
2017 Adam Woods, Eric Hendrix, and Wayne Henderson
2015 Cathy Busby
2014 Bonnie Bloeser, Rick Behl, and Dave Bottjer
2012 Bob Garrison and Don Lowe
2005 Stanley C. Finney and William L. Bilodeau
1998 John Cooper, Thomas Anderson, Calvin H. Stevens, Mario Caputo, Gary Girty, Raymond V. Ingersoll, and David Andersen
STUDENT AWARDS
Awarded for the best graduate student poster at the Annual Spring Conference.
2019 Leo Giannetta of CSU Long Beach
2018 Nick Mitchell, CSU Bakersfield
2017 Deirdre La Bounty of University of Alaska
2016 Ryan Weller of CSU Long Beach
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For best undergraduate poster presentation in sedimentology/stratigraphy by an undergraduate student, the poster of whom is evaluated and scored for specific criteria by the volunteering members of the PS-SEPM Executive Committee
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Award consists of plaque or certificate, $500, and 1-year membership in PS-SEPM to individual student or 1st author among co-authors . Presented at the Annual Spring Conference
2018 Samuel McKinney, CSU Bakersfield
2017 Evelyn Gutierrez of CSU Fullerton
2014 Chris Bowie of CSU-Fresno
John C. Crowell Graduate Award
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For best MS and Doctoral Thesis in sedimentology/stratigraphy by a graduate student nominated either by faculty advisor, department chair at home geology department, PS-SEPM Awards Committee, or SEPM Faculty Representative, who is familiar with student’s (s’) work
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Evaluated by members of PS-SEPM Awards Committee at conference where presentation is made
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Faculty member in the home geology department nominates student(s)
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Award consists of $500 given to the home geology department; each student author receives a PS-SEPM T-shirt and 1-year membership in PS-SEPM; awardee(s), if present, acknowledged at the next fall field trip
2019 Awardees
Best PhD dissertation
Laura C. Reynolds, UC Santa Barbara, "The Late Quaternary evolution of the southern California coast: sea-level change, storms, and subsidence"
Best M.S. Thesis
1st - Maia C. Davis, Cal State Long Beach, " Spatial and geochemical characterization of an anomalous, map-scale dolomite breccia in the Monterey Formation, Santa Maria basin, California"
2nd - Ryan M. Weller, Cal State Long Beach, "Compositional and diagenetic controls of hardness in siliceous mudstones of the Monterey Formation, Belridge oil field, CA: implications for fracture development"
2015 Awardees
Best PhD dissertation
1st - Glenn Sharman (Stanford University) Provenance, paleogeography, and mass-movement of deep-water depositional systems in arc-adjacent basins: the Cretaceous-Paleogene California Forearc and Upper Miocene Mohakatino Formation, New Zealand
Best M.S. thesis
1st - Kevin Coffey (UCLA) Oligocene-Miocene sedimentary and volcanic strata of the Vincent Gap Region, Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, Southern California, USA, and their tectonic significance
2014 Awardees
Best Ph.D. dissertation
1st – Grant Shimer (Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks) – Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Nanushuk Formation and related foreland basin deposits, central Brooks Range foothills, Alaska
2nd – Carie M. Frantz (Univ. of Southern California) – Stromatolites as biosignatures and paleoenvironmental records: experiments with modern mats and examples from the Eocene Green River Formation
3rd – Karl A. Lang (Univ. of Washington) – Persistent exhumation of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis
Best M.S. thesis
1st – Annie G. Mosher (Cal State Long Beach) – Detailed lithostratigraphic characterization of Chico Martinez Creek, California
Raymond V. Ingersoll Undergraduate Award
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For best senior thesis in sedimentology/stratigraphy by an undergraduate student, nominated by advisor
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Nominated students submit abstract of their theses, which are screened and ranked by PS-SEPM Awards Committee, which later requests copy of full thesis for further evaluation
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Award consists of $500 and 1-year membership in PS-SEPM to individual student
2019 - Best Senior Thesis
Aria R. Blumm, Occidental College, "Reconstructing earthquake events on the Teton Fault, WY"
2015 Awardees - Best Senior Thesis
1st - Joan Marie Del Vecchio (Pomona College) - Mechanisms for Valley Aggradation in Cow Canyon, Eastern San Gabriel Moutains, California
2nd - John Lawrence (CSU Northridge) - Pottery Shards of the Lesser Antilles Arc
3rd - Saint Joseph Thao (CSU Fresno) A ground penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography investigation of a subsurface discontinuous hardpan due to dynamite blasting 50+ years prior