Student Awards
 
Student Paper Awardees
2009 Annual Meeting Best Student paper and Poster Awards
First Place Oral Presentation
 
Dr. Andrew N. Quicksall
University of Notre Dame
Dept. of Civil Eng & Geo Sciences
Notre Dame IN 46556-0309
"Size Dependent Physical Properties and Chemical Reactivity of Hematite Nanoparticles"
Second Place Oral Presentation
 
Ms. Siobhan A Wilson
The University of British Columbia
Dept of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Canada
"Quantitative Carbon Fixation in Trace Minerals from Kimberlite Mine Tailings"
Third Place Oral Presentation
 
Mr. Bruce D. Pauly
University of California-Davis
Pleasanton CA 94588-4366
"Boron Behavior During Seawater Palagonitization Revealed using SIMS Microanalysis: Implications for Environmental Control"
Fourth Place Oral Presentation
 
Ana Luisa Barrientos Velazquez
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Soil & Crop Sciences Dept
College Station TX 77843-2474
"Aflatoxin Adsorption Influenced by Adsorbent Mineralogy"
First Place Poster Presentation
 
Ms. Connie I. Constan
1201 Madeira Dr SE Apt 209
Albuquerque NM 87108-6603
"Estimation of Original Pottery Firing Temperature Through X-Ray Diffraction"

2009 Student Research Grant Awardees
*Robert J. Reynolds, Jr. Research Award for the highest ranked proposal.
Mr. Hitoshi Banno
Univ of Missouri, Columbia
Dept of Geological Sciences
Columbia MO 65211-1380
"Mineralogical and Fabric Study on the Exhumed Fault Gouge Zone Along the San Gabriel Fault"
Mr. Michael E. Bishop
Miami University
Fairfield OH 45014-4942
"Reactivity of Clay Minerals Towards Technetium Immobilization"
Mr. Daniel Bulger
University of Georgia
Dept of Geology
Athens GA 30602-2501
"Distribution of Diagenetic Alterations of Mg-Rich Clay Minerals in Late Mississippian High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Appalachian basin"
Mr. Michael C. Cheshire
Indiana University
Dept Geological Sciences
Bloomington IN 47405-1405
"Role and Evolution of Organic Matter Within the Southeastern United States Kaolin Deposits"
Mr. Zachary B. Day
University of Illinois
Urbana IL 61801-4798
"Nitrate Remediation by Iron Redox Reaction in Soils"
Anna Losiak
Michigan State University
Lansing MI 48824-1115
"Low Temperature Weathering and REE Mobilization in Antarctic Meteorites"
Mr. Debajyoti Mondal
University of New Brunswick
Canada
"Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of Mass Transport in Thin Film of Redox Active Layered Double Hydroxide"
*Ms. Rebecca Sanders
Penn State University
University Park PA 16802-4615
"Investigating Clay Mineral Surface Reactivity Across Scales using Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)"
Mr. Marek S. Szczerba
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences
Poland
"New Methods of Diagenetic and Detrital Illite Age Extraction Based on K-Ar Dating of Shales"
Mr. David Vinson
Duke University
Earth & Ocean Sciences
Durham NC 27708-1661
"Radium Release from Natural Clays Across Salinity Gradients: Application of Clay Science to Aqueous Geochemistry and Water Quality"
Mr. Young Dong Noh
Penn State University
University Park PA 16802-1014
"Mercury Ion Exchange Properties of Na-Micas, Na-ETS-4 and Na-Titanosilicate"

2009 Student Travel Grant Awardees
Mr. Jason C. Austin
University of Georgia
Hoschton GA 30548-4309
"Reducing the uncertainty of the Paleosol Paleoclimate Proxy Using Numerical Modeling"
Mr. Courage Bangira
Texas A & M University
College Station TX 77843-2474
"Comparative Study of Soil Clay Minerals Derived from Ultramafic Rocks of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe"
Mr. Michael E. Bishop
Miami University
Fairfield OH 45014-4942
"Bioavailability of Fe(III) in Loess Sediments: An Important Source of Electron Acceptors"
Mr. Zachary B. Day
University of Illinois
Urbana IL 61801-4798
"Abiotic Nitrate Reduction by Redox Activated Fe-Bearing Smectites"
Miss Erin Leigh Hunter
University of Notre Dame
Johnstown PA 15904-3416
"Siderophore-Lead Mutual Sorption in the Interlayer of Na-Saturated Montmorillonite"
Keith D. Morrison
University of California Riverside
Department of Earth Sciences
Riverside CA 92521-0424
"Geopolymerization of Organic Matter via Reduction of Structural Fe(III) in 2:1 Expandable Clay Minerals"
Mrs. Natalie-Jane Reid
University of Otago
New Zealand
"The Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Bedload Sediments, Taieri River, South Island, New Zealand"
Mr. Marek Szczerba
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences
Poland
"Structure of Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) on Smectite Based on Computer Simulations"
Ana Luisa Barrientos Velazquez
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Soil & Crop Sciences Dept
College Station TX 77843-2474
"Aflatoxin Adsorption Influenced by Adsorbent Mineralogy"

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