Student Awards and Honors


Antoniette Abeyta, BS Student in Earth Science (Advisor: Campbell)

  • NMGS Lucille H. Pipkin Book Scholarship, 2008

Jaron Andrews, MS Student in Hydrology (Advisor: Bowman)

  • NMGS Lucille H. Pipkin Book Scholarship, 2004-2005
  • NMT Scholar, 2005
  • NMGS Fall Field Conference Scholarships, 2006
  • Estwing Award, 2007
  • New Mexico Geological Society Grants in Aid, 2008
  • Geological Society of America Research Grant, 2008

Matt Baillie, PhD Candidate Hydrology (Advisor: Wilson)

  • NMGS Fall Field Conference Scholarship, 2007

Doug Berlier, BS Student in Geology (Advisor: Spinelli)

  • NMGS Fall Field Conference Scholarship, 2007

Colin Cikoski, MS Student in Earth Science (Advisor: Campbell)

  • NMGS Lucille H. Pipkin Book Scholarship, 2004
  • NMGS Lucille H. Pipkin Book Scholarship, 2005
  • New Mexico Tech Scholar, 2005
  • Road Runner Gem and Mineral Society Scholarship, 2007
  • NMGS Fall Field Conference Scholarship, 2007
  • Robert Wellnitz Memorial Scholarship, 2008
  • Outstanding EES Teaching Assistant, 2008

Megan Curry, MS Student in Geology (Advisor: Boston)

Whitney Defoor, BS Student in Environmental Science (Advisor: Harrison)

  • Jerry and Cynthia Durtsche Scholarship, 2008

Melissa Dimeo, MS Student in Geology (Advisor: Kyle)

Ravindra Dwivedi, MS Student in Hydrology (Advisor: Wilson)

  • Mahdi Hantush Memorial Fellowship, 2007-2009

Emily Engle, MS Student in Geology (Advisor: Phillips)

  • Graduate Student Association Matusezski Grant, 2007
  • New Mexico Geological Society Grants in Aid, 2007, for "Variations of Water Partitioning on the North and South Facing Hillslopes at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge"
  • First Place Poster Award in Geology/Hydrology at NMT Graduate Student Association's Break the Mold Student Conference, September 21-22, 2007

Andrew Fargo, MS Student in Geochemistry (Advisor: McIntosh)

  • Outstanding EES Teaching Assistant - G3, 2006-2007

Josh Feldman, MS Student in Geology (Advisor: Kyle)

  • Outstanding EES Teaching Assistant, 2008

Shaun Finn, BS Student in Earth Science (Advisor: Spinelli)

  • NMGS Lucille H. Pipkin Book Scholarship, 2008

Christina Forbes, MS Student Geology (Advisor: Kyle)

  • NMGS Fall Field Conference Scholarship, 2007
  • Outstanding EES Teaching Assistant, 2008

Marty Frisbee, PhD Candidate in Hydrology (Advisor: Phillips)

Jesus Gomez Velez, PhD Student in Hydrology (Advisor: Wilson)

Hugo Gutierrez-Jurado, PhD Candidate Hydrology (Advisor: Vivoni)

  • NCALM Award for proposal "Can ALSM Quantify the Impact of Vegetation Dynamics on Semiarid Landscape Form?," 2007
  • Selected to attend MYRES 2008: Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape
  • New Mexico Geological Society Grants in Aid, 2008

Jestina Hansen Gonzales, BS Student in Environmental Science (Advisor: Harrison)

  • New Mexico Tech Scholar, 2007
  • NMGS Lucille H. Pipkin Book Scholarship, 2007-2008

Ginny Hargrave, MS Student in Hydrology (Advisor: Phillips)

  • Best Poster Award at SAHRA 6th Annual Meeting, 2006

Shari Houston, BS Student in Geology (Advisor: Mozley)

Joanna Johnston, BS Student in Earth Science and Physics (Advisor: Boston)

  • Fall Field Conference Scholarship, 2004
  • Road Runner Gem and Mineral Society Scholarship, 2007

Kyle Jones, MS Student in Geophysics (Advisor: Aster)

  • NMT Student Appreciation Award, 2005

Katrina Koski, PhD Student in Geology (Advisor: Boston)

Taufique Mahmood, PhD Student in Hydrology (Advisor: Vivoni)

Lisa Majkowski-Taylor, MS Student in Geology (Advisor: Harrison)

Shasta (McGee) Marrero, MS Student in Hydrology (Advisor: Phillips)

  • Best Student Poster Presentation, NMGS Spring Conference, 2007
  • First Place Oral Presentation in Natural Science Award at NMT Graduate Student Association's Break the Mold Student Conference, September 21-22, 2007

Katherine Mason-Barton, MS Student Geology (Advisor: D. Johnson)

  • Honorable Mention, Outstanding EES Teaching Assistant, 2005-2006
  • Beverly Wellnitz Memorial Scholarship, 2005

Luis Mendez-Barroso, MS Student in Hydrology (Advisor: Vivoni)

Jane Overton, BS Student in Geology (Advisor: Harrison)

Alex Rinehart, MS Student in Hydrology (Advisor: Vivoni)

Laura Rosales Lagarde, PhD Candidate in Geochemistry (Advisor: Boston)

  • Los Alamos Geological Society - NMGS Fall Field Conference Scholarship, 2006
  • Anton and Anita Budding Geoscience Research Award, 2006

Kym Samuels, MS Student in Geochemistry (Advisor: Campbell)

  • NMGS Fall Field Conference Scholarship, 2006
  • Robert Wellnitz Memorial Scholarship, 2007

Paul Slezak, BS Student in Earth Science-Geology (Advisor: Harrison)

  • Pipkin Book Scholarship, 2007
  • NMGS Pipkin Senior Scholarship, 2008

Jana Stankova-Pursley, MS Student in Geophysics (Advisor: Bilek)

  • NMGS Pipkin Book Scholarship, 2004
  • NMGS Fall Field Conference Scholarship, 2004
  • Albuquerque Gem & Mineral Club Scholarship, 2005
  • Anton and Anita Budding Geoscience Research Award 2006
  • Second Place Oral Presentation Award in Engineering at NMT Graduate Student Association's Break the Mold Student Conference, September 21-22, 2007

Kinwai "Bill" Tai, MS Student in Hydrology (Advisor: Vivoni)

  • Ivanhoe Foundation Fellowship, 2007
  • Second Place Poster Award in Geology/Hydrology at NMT Graduate Student Association's Break the Mold Student Conference, September 21-22, 2007

Fred Tapaha, BS Student in Earth Science-Geology (Advisor: Harrison)

Jesus Velador, PhD Student in Geochemistry (Advisor: Campbell)

  • Eula B. and Charles F. Park Fellowship, 2007

Matt Zimmerer, MS Student in Geology (Advisor: Axen)

  • NMGS Fall Field Conference Scholarship, 2005
  • Richard A. Matuszeski Research Grant, 2007
  • Los Alamos Geological Society Scholarship, 2007


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