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2024 EES Awards

Congratulations to our 2024 EES Department Award winners!
These awards are given to graduate and undergraduate students for outstanding scholarship and research in the Earth and Environmental Sciences. Financial support for these awards is provided by generous donations to the department. A description of each award and its supporting endowment can be found on our Alumni page.

 

External award winners
In addition to department awards, our students have also won awards from external programs! External award winners are listed after department award winners.

 

2024 Award winners

  Award   Awardee            
  Pipkin Senior Award   Teagan Skinner
BS Earth Science
award acceptance
Teagan Skinner accepting their award from Dr. Dan Cadol
 
           
  Pipkin Book Award   Melina Karavousanos
BS Earth Science
award acceptance
Melina Karavousanos
 
           
  Pipkin Book Award   Tiffany Spence
BS, Environmental Science
   
           
  Pipkin Book Award   Elijah Henderson
BS Earth Science
award acceptance
Elijah Henderson
 
           
  Eastwing Rock Hammer Award   Sharon Minnix
BS Earth Science
award acceptance
Sharon Minnix accepting their rock hammer and award
 
           
  Durtsche Award   Luc Carbonneau
BS Earth Science, Physics
award acceptance
Luc Carbonneau
 
           
  Durtsche Award   Daniel Douglas
PhD Geophysics
award acceptance
Daniel Douglas
 
           
  Durtsche Award   Prajakta Mohite
MS Geophysics
award acceptance
Prajakta Mohite
 
           
  Wycoff Memorial Scholarship   Yerko Figueroa Penarrieta
PhD Geochemistry
award acceptance
Yerko Figueroa Penarrieta
 
           
  Wycoff Memorial Scholarship   Charles Kershaw
MS Geochemistry
award acceptance
Charles Kershaw
 
           
  Wycoff Memorial Scholarship   Endy Kevin Padilla
PhD Geochemistry
award acceptance
Endy Kevin Padilla
 
           
  Dave Norman Scholarship   Eric Ruggles
MS Geochemistry
award acceptance
Eric Ruggles along with Mary Norman, spouse of Dave Norman
 
           
  Don Yardley Fellowship   Jonathan Adams
PhD Geochemistry
award acceptance
Jonathan Adams
 
           
  NMGS Grant-in-Aid
(Cearley Award)
  Abelino Fernandez-Leger
MS Hydrology
   
           
  NMGS Grant-in-Aid   Kyle Gallant
PhD Geology
   
           
  NMGS Grant-in-Aid   Kristin Hashberger
MS Geology
award acceptance
Kris Hashberger
 
           

2024 External award winners

Jonathan Anaya (PhD Geology) has been awarded a 2023 AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) for their presentation on "Provenance Analysis and Timing of Deformation in the Mongolian Altay: Implications for Intracontinental Deformation"

Magdalen Grismer (PhD Geochemistry) has been awarded a 2023 AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) for their presentation on "Conditions of two-feldspar saturation in a high-silica rhyolite: a comparison between phase equilibrium experiments and a rhyolite-MELTS phase diagram of a Valles Caldera obsidian"