Climate/Environment 1st place:
Fabian Hardy - Temporal distribution and tectonic association of vertebrate fossils in the Middle-Miocene Dove Spring Formation, California
Colleen Yancey - Determining the Spatial and Temporal Variation in Natural Product Distribution in Western Lake Erie CHABs: Insights into Microcystis Bioactive Compound Potential
Climate/Environment 2nd place:
Meg Veitch - A "Deeper" Understanding: Decreasing predation intensity with increasing depth supports the Mesozoic Marine Revolution hypothesis for stalked crinoids' disappearance from shallow water
Solid Earth 1st place:
Kirk Townsend - The co-evolution of rock strength and relief during the early stages of mountain building
Solid Earth 2nd place:
Sha Chen - Volatile element study in lunar melt inclusions
People's Choice:
James Andrews - Anatomy and implications of the earliest crown squirrelfish (Teleostei: Holocentridae)
Undergraduate Poster:
Serena Scholz - Clumped isotope calibration for marine gastropods
Program and poster list.
L-R: Fabian Hardy, Collen Yancy, Kirk Townsend, Sha Chen, Meg Veitch, Serena Scholz (not shown James Andrews) Photo: Dale Austin