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