Student Awards

2011 Student Awards
September 2011, Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

2011 Student Travel Award Winners

2011 1st Place Poster Winner
Ana Luisa Barrientos-Velázquez with President Paul Schroeder

EFFECTS OF CHARGE ORIGIN AND OCTAHEDRAL CATIONS OF SMECTITES
ON THEIR SELECTIVITY AND ADSORPTION CAPACITY FOR AFLATOXIN
A.L. Barrientos-Velázquez, A. Marroquín-Cardona, J.B. Dixon and Y. Deng

2011 2nd Place Poster Winner
Jing Zhang with President Paul Schroeder

MICROBIAL REDUCTION OF FE(III) IN SMECTITE-ILLITE
MINERALS BY METHANOGEN METHANOSARCINA MAZE
Jing Zhang, Hailiang Dong, Deng Liu, Timothy B. Fischer, Shang Wang, and Liuqin Huang

2011 3rd Place Poster Winner
Matthew Miller with President Paul Schroeder

CLAY MINERALOGY AND CHLORINATED SOLVENT CONTENT OF VAN HOUTEN CYCLES
IN THE LOCKATONG FORMATION, NEWARK BASIN, WEST TRENTON, NJ
Matthew A. Miller

First Place Oral Presentation Sarah A. Saslow Northwestern University	"Uranyl adsorption and speciation at the mineral/water interface studied by resonantly enhanced second harmonic generation and the Chi(3) technique"
Second Place Oral Presentation Heike Kaden Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	"Influence of clay intrinsic properties on the ability to detect moisture differences with dielectric spectroscopy"
Third Place Oral Presentation Michael C. Cheshire Indiana University	"Isotopic and organic geochemical composition of the Georgia kaolins: Insights into formation and diagenetic conditions"

2010 Student Awards

2009 Student Awards

2008 Student Awards