Arizona Geological Society

Scholarship Recipients

J. Harold Courtright Scholarship

2023 Recipient

Benjamin Amundsen ($3,000)

School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University

Petrologic and Crustal Evolution of the Platoro Caldera Complex, Colorado


2022 Recipient

Maria Camila Sojo Aguero ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Unravelling the Magmatic-Hydrothermal Evolution of Filo del Sol Porphyry-Epithermal System, San Juan Province, Argentina


2021 Recipient

Eytan B. Orent ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Characterization of U(-V) Deposits in the La Sal District, Utah and Colorado and their Relationship to Paradox Basin Fluid Flow


2020 Recipient

Dylan Carlini ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Gold in the Oatman District, Mohave County, Northwestern Arizona, including Characterization of the Gold Road Vein, Surface to Depth


2019 Recipient

Robert Hayes ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Basin Dynamics of the Middle - Upper Triassic of the Colorado Plateau


2018 Recipient

Alexandra L. Wallenberg ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Gregg Canyon Intrusive Center, Sonoma Range, Nevada:  Magmatism and Porphyry-Style Alteration-Mineralization


2017 Recipient

Michael A. Kassela  ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Austin Pluton and Reese River Mining District, Central Nevada: Magmatism, Alteration, Ore Formation, and Post-ore Dismemberment and Tilting


2016 Recipient

Daniel A. Favorito ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Characterization and Reconstruction of Laramide Contractional Deformation Near Porphyry Copper Deposits in  Southeastern Arizona


2015 Recipient

Alexandra Savard Macho ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Eocene Intrusions and Associated Hydrothermal Systems in the Egan Range, White Pine County,  Nevada


2014 Recipient

Jason (J. D.) Mizer ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Geology of the Cerro Colorado and Las Guijas Districts, Pima County, Arizona


2013 Recipient

Simone Runyon ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Alteration Mapping in the Yerington Batholith, Yerington, Nevada

 

2012 Recipient

Samuel Wachtor ($3000)
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
Structural Evolution of Ore Mineral Viability of the Northern Sierra de la Laguna Mountains, La Ventana, Baja California Sur

 

2011 Recipient
James Girardi ($2000)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Jurassic Volcanism and Magnetite-Apatite Mineralization in the Southern Palen Mountains, Southeastern California

 

2010 Recipient
Bryan J. MacFarlane ($2000)
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
Structural Geology, Age Dating, and Petrography of the Santa Gertrudis Mining District, Sonora, Mexico

 

2009 Recipient
Jeff J. Geier ($2000)
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
Timing and Structural Control of Gold Mineralization,  Santa Gertrudis Mining District, Sonora, Mexico

 

2008 Recipients

Rachelle Wagner ($1000)
Dept. of Geology, Northern Arizona University
Miocene Fault and Basin Analysis along the Boulevard and Dry Wash Faults, Northern Frenchman Mountain, Lake Mead Domain, Nevada

 

Jesse Einhorn ($1000)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Detrital Zircon Geochronology in Sediments of the Salta Rift, Northwestern Argentina

 

2007 Recipient
Joshua Coyan ($2000)
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
Structural Controls of Gold Mineralization around San Antonio, Baja California Sur

 

2006 Recipient
S. Lynn Peyton ($1500)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Thermochronology and Uplift in the Laramide Front Ranges

 

2005 Courtright Scholarship recipient
David Keeler ($1500)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Structural Reconstruction of Copper Basin, Battle Mountain District, Nevada

 

2004 Recipient
W. Ross Waldrip ($1770)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Restoration of Late Cretaceous - Early Tertiary Contractional and mid-Tertiary Extensional Structures Across the San Pedro Trough, Southeastern Arizona

 

2003 Courtright Recipients
Joseph Ryan Michalski ($1250)
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
Detachment-related K-metasomatism, Secondary Carbonates, and Cu-Fe Mineralization in the Buckskin Mountains, Western Arizona

 

Stephen DeLong ($1000)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Plio? - Pleistocene Sedimentary Basin Evolution at the Edge of the Cordillera Cuyama Valley, California

 

2002 Recipients
Benjamin R. Siwiec ($2000)
Dept. of Geology, Northern Arizona University
Structure and Metamorphism in the Northern Hualapai Mountains, Arizona:  Implications for the Paleoproterozoic Tectonics of  the Southwestern United States

 

Andrew McCarthy ($1000)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Collection and Analysis of Mantle Xenoliths from a Transect across the North American Cordillera

 

Victor Valencia ($500)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Evolution of the Laramide Magmatism and Porphyry Copper  Mineralization at La Caridad Mine and its Comparison with the Southern Arizona Porphyry Copper Province

 

2001 Recipients
Andrew Leier ($1000)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Uplift and Erosional History of the Eastern Cordillera and Sub-Andes in Southern Bolivia and Northernmost Argentina

 

Christa Placzek ($1000)
Dept. of Geology, Northern Arizona University
Geochemistry of Freshwater Carbonates, Uyuni-Coipas Basin, Bolivia

 

2000 Recipients
Jessica Duke ($1000)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Supergene Copper Enrichment at Hanover Mountain, New Mexico

 

Sara Christine James ($500)
Dept. of Geology, Northern Arizona University
Constraints on the Mojave-Yavapai Crustal Provinces Boundary:  A Structural and Metamorphic Study in the Grand Wash Cliffs and Peacock Mountains, Arizona

 

1999 Recipients
Julia K. Johnson ($1000)
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
Proterozoic Structural Geology and Stratigraphy of the Phoenix Mountains, Central Arizona

 

Jason Arnold Rech ($900)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Tracking Sulfur in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile

 

1998 Recipients
Andrew Schroth ($1000)
Dept. of Geology, Northern Arizona University
The Effect of Waste Rock Removal on the Hydrogeochemistry of Water Draining the Alta Mine Site, Colorado Mining District, Montana

 

Eric V. Hargrave ($500)
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
Stratigraphy and Correlation of  Triassic and Jurassic Rocks in West-Central Arizona and Southeastern California

 

Gail Morrissey ($500)
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University
Progressive Metamorphism and Structural Attenuation in the Big Maria Mountains, Southeastern California: An Evaluation with the Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner

 

1997 Recipient
Paul W. Jensen ($1000)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Post-ore Structural History of the Sierrita-Esperanza Orebodies, Pima County, Arizona

 

1996 Recipient
Robert R. Casavant ($1000)
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Tectonic Partitioning and Mineralization - The North Slope and Brooks Range Regions, Alaska

M. Lee Allison Scholarship

2023 Recipients

Emilia Caylor, ($1,500)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona


Bridgett Holman, ($1,500)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona


2022 Recipients

Jessica Bersson ($1500)

School of Earth and Space Science Exploration, Arizona State University


Emilie Bowman ($1500)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona


2021 Recipient

Lauren J. Reeher ($3000)

Dept of Geosciences, University of Arizona


2020 Recipient

Audrey Dunham ($3000)

Dept of Geosciences, University of Arizona


2019 Recipient

Lydia Bailey ($3000)

Dept of Geosciences, University of Arizona


2018 Recipient

Lorraine Carnes ($3000)

School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University


2017 Recipient

Jessie K. Pearl ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona


2016 Inaugural Recipients

Anna Katharina Schuh ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona


Phillip K. McFarland ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona

AGS Geoscience Scholarship

2015 Recipient

Enrique Rodolfo Chon ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona


2014 Recipient

Kathleen Compton ($3000)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona


2013 Inaugural Recipients

Lily Jackson ($1500)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona


Jason (J. D.) Mizer ($1500)

Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona



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