Distinguished Thesis Award
The Distinguished Thesis Award is awarded to graduate students in the department whose MS thesis is well-conceived, presents an original contribution, and clearly communicates the scientific significance of the work.
See the recipients of this award below.
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2023:
Bethany Kharrazi; A Conceptual Framework for Managed Aquifer Recharge in the Columbia River Basalts of the Lower Yakima River Basin -
2022:
Trent Adams; Detecting Impacts of Historic and Undocumented Landslide Tsunamis at High Latitude Sites Using NDVI. - 2021:
Alyssa DeMott; Long-Term Geomorphic Effects of the Glines Canyon Dam Removal on the Elwha River Washington, USA.
Valerie Strasser; The Role of Cumulate Plagioclase Entrainment in the Steens Basalt, SE Oregon: Insights from the Magma Chamber Simulator. - 2020:
Elizabeth Curtiss; Documenting the Earthquake History of the Thousand Springs Fault in Summer Lake Basin, Oregon, USA - 2019:
Andrew Hoxey; Spatial and temporal characterization of the Petrified Springs Fault, Central Walker Lane, Nevada: documenting middle Miocene dextral slip. - 2018:
Conner Toth; Giant Plagioclase in the Steens Basalt, SE Oregon: Cumulate Entrainment Revealed by Textural and In Situ Chemical Analysis. - 2017:
David Hernandez Uribe; Estimating the Thickness of an Ultrahigh-Pressure (UHP) Terrane: Insights from Phase Equilibria Modelling and Zr-in-Rutile Thermometry, Dulan Area, North Qaidam Terrane, Northwest China.
Dallin Jensen; Isotope investigation of nitrate in soils and agricultural drain waters of the Lower Yakima Valley, Washington.
Ted Uecker; Post-wildfire black carbon deposition on the snowpack in the Cascade Range, Washington State: Temporal and spatial variability with implications for accelerated melt. - 2016:
Brian Ostrom; Hazard identification and coastal stratigraphy in Crescent Harbor and Dugualla Bay, northeast Whidbey Island. - 2015:
Brent Ritzinger; Paleomagnetic mapping of late Miocene-Pliocene basalt flows in the northwestern Basin and Range: determining structural and topographic controls on the distribution of volcanic activity.
Kaitlyn Nelson; Constraining timing and source of alkali-enrichment at Mt. Etna, Sicily using in situ clinopyroxene data. - 2014:
Andy Menking; Black carbon measurements of snow and ice using the single particle soot photometer: method development and an AD 1852-1999 record of atmospheric black carbon from a Mount Logan ice core. - 2013:
Aaron Mayfield; Documenting compositional diversity in the Fossa delle Felci (Salina Island, South Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): Integrating quantitative models and in situ chemical analyses. - 2012:
Jim Rinke; Surface Wave Inversion of the Upper Mantle Velocity Structure in the Ross Sea Region, Western Antarctica. - 2011: not awarded
- 2010:
Caitlin Orem; Lacustrine sediment record of multiple Quaternary lava dams on the Owyhee River, southeastern Oregon. - 2009:
Jackie Langille; Middle Crustal Ductile Deformation Patterns in southern Tibet: Insights from Vorticity Studies in Mabja Dome.
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