Awards and Recognition from Professional Societies and Organizations

Awards and Recognition from Professional Societies and Organizations

YearStudentAwardProposal/paper title
2024Nguyen, FudaBest Graduate Student Poster, Cool Stars 22 Meeting (June 2024)Are there polar vortices on ultracool atmospheres?
2023Wilbur, ZoëMcKay Award, Meteoritical Society, Best Student Oral Presentation at Annual MeetingUnraveling the volatile story of reduced meteorites through djerfisherite
2023Wilbur, ZoëP.E.O. Scholar Award 
2016Thompson, MichelleJoseph Goldstein Scholar Award, Microanalysis SocietySimulating space weathering using rapid heating in a TEM
1999Head, JimOutstanding Student Paper Award, 1999 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union 
1999Radebaugh, JaniOutstanding Student Paper Award, 1999 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union 
2007Richardson, JamesPellas-Ryder, Meteoritical Society and Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of AmericaThe Global Effects of Impact-induced Seismic Activity on Fractured Asteroid Surface Morphology
2023Huseby, LoriChambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, American Astronomical Society, Graduate Poster PresentationThe Great Escape! Extreme-UV Spectra Grids for K-Type Stars
2022Wilbur, ZoëWiley Award, Meteoritical Society, Graduate Oral PresentationVolcanic Histories of Lunar Basalts Revealed via 3D Visualization
2022Benner, MaizeyBest Student Poster, Microanalysis Society of AmericaCorrelative Analysis of P-bearing Assemblages in the QUE 97008 and Orgueil Chondrites
2022Sutton, SarahPellas-Ryder Award, Meteoritical Society and Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of AmericaSinuous channels east of Olympus Mons, Mars: Implications for volcanic, hydrological, and tectonic processes
2017McGraw, AllisonDwornik Award, Geological Society of America, Undergraduate Oral PresentationDo L-Chondrites Come from the Gefion Asteroid Family?
2016Thompson, MichelleDwornik Award, Geological Society of America, Graduate Oral PresentationSimulation of Micrometeorite Impacts through In Situ Dynamic Heating of Lunar Soil
1998Chabot, NancyDwornik Award, Geological Society of America, Graduate Oral PresentationThe Effect of S on the Solubility of K in m
2018Seifert, LauraStudent Scholar Award, Microanalysis Society of America, Contributed PaperMulti-keV Analyses of a Presolar Mg-Silicate Grain via SEM/STEM
2021Ishimaru, KanaLPI Career Development Award, first-author abstract presentationApparently Layered Boulders with Multiple Textures on Bennu's Surface
2020Wilbur, ZoeLPI Career Development Award, first-author abstract presentationInvestigating the Magmatic History of Volatiles in Apollo 17 Basalts, Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis
2021Stadermann, AmandaLPI Career Development Award, first-author abstract presentationApollo Sample 12032,366-18: Characterization and Experimental Investigation of a Chemically Evolved Lunar Basalt
2014Dykhuis, MelissaDuncombe Prize, American Astronomical Society Division on Dynamical Astronomy, excellence and originality of scientific research to be presented at annual meetingDefining the Flora Family: Reflectance Properties and Age
2014Thompson, MichelleLPI Career Development Award, first-author abstract presentationNanoscale Analysis of Space Weathering Features in Soils from Itokawa
2014Becerra, PatricioLPI Career Development Award, first-author abstract presentationMartian Polar Stratigraphy from HiRISE Stereo Topography
2016Sutton, SarahLPI Career Development Award, first-author abstract presentationInvestigating Channel Morphologies in the Eastern Olympus Mons Region of Mars: Implications for Volcanic and Fluvian Processes
2013Bramson, AliOutstanding Student Presentation Award, Fall 2013 American Geophysical Union meetingThick Subsurface Water Ice in Arcadia Planitia, Mars
2013Elder, CatherineLPI Career Development Award, first-author abstract presentationMelt Migration through Io's Convecting Mantle
2017Bramson, AliLPI Career Development Award, first-author abstract presentationSurvival of Mid-Latitude Ground Ice on Mars
2017Keane, JamesPellas-Ryder Award, best student paper in planetary sciences, the Meteoritical Society and the Geological Society of America Planetary Geology DivisionReorientation and Faulting of Pluto due to Volatile Loading within Sputnik Planitia
2014Elder, CatherineOutstanding Student Presentation Award, Fall 2014 American Geophysical Union meetingConvection and Melt Migration in Io's Mantle
2014Keane, jamesOutstanding Student Presentation Award, Fall 2014 American Geophysical Union meetingThe Contribution of Impact Basins and Mascons to the Lunar Figure: Evidence for Lunar True Polar Wander, and a Past Low-Eccentricity, Synchronous Lunar Orbit
2014Daubar, IngridWiley-Blackwell Award for Outstanding Student Presentation, 77th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical SocietyNew Dated Impacts on Mars and the Current Cratering Rate
2014Thompson, MichelleHonorable Mention, Dwornik Award, Geological Society of America, Graduate Oral PresentationNanoscale Analysis of Space-Weathering Features in Soils from Itokawa
2005Abramov, OlegHonorable Mention, Dwornik Award, Geological Society of America, Graduate Oral PresentationImpact-induced hydrothermal activity on early Mars
1997Chabot, NancyHonorable Mention, Dwornik Award, Geological Society of America, Graduate Oral Presentation 
1993Tonks, BrianHonorable Mention, Dwornik Award, Geological Society of America, Graduate Poster Presentation 
2015Keane, JamesEugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award, Planetary Geology Division, Geological Society of America