NORTHERN CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
2007 - 2008 NCGS $500
Undergraduate Scholarship Award
The Northern California Geological Society is pleased to announce the award of the 2007 – 2008 Undergraduate Scholarship to Ms. Kathryn Quigley of U.C. of California, Berkeley. Ms. Quigley’s senior thesis focuses on the large, slow-moving landslides of the Berkeley Hills. She will be working with Dr. Roland Bergmann and will focus on the seasonal dependence of creeping landslides in the Berkeley Hills. She will be utilizing Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) remote sensing data from two satellites. The InSAR analysis will allow velocity determinations of the landslides which will be mapped in a GIS program. The NCGS funding will also allow her to include a larger field component in her research, including mapping the surface expression of the slides with GPS, a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) survey, and borehole inclinometer readings from existing geotechnical boreholes. Dr. Gerald Bawden of the USGS in Sacramento will provide access to a GPS mapping system that will allow tracking of slides through time (4D). She believes the data generated will contribute to the on-going analysis of these landslides. Join us in congratulating her on her award!
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PREVIOUS AWARDS
2005 - 2006 NCGS $500
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
The NCGS is pleased to provide details to the earlier announcement of the award of the 2006 Undergraduate Scholarship for $500 to Ms. Holly Olson. She was a student in the Department of Geosciences at San Francisco State University. Her thesis topic is/was "Temporal and Spatial Variations of Coastal Marine Terrace Deposits along the Coast of the Point Reyes Peninsula". Her advisor was Dr. Karen Grove. The area of her study is characterized tectonically by a syncline whose northwest trending axis is located on the western side of Drakes Estero. Previous work had shown that the area is being uplifted due to folding and thrust faulting, and the uplift is recorded by coastal marine terraces formed at sea level and now found at varying elevations along the peninsula. Lateral differences in the Miocene deposits were proposed to be studied in part by the construction of detailed measured stratigraphic columns between Limantour Beach and Bolinas. By correlating the sequences to climate data from other studies, it was hoped to explain increased sediment supply in terms of observed climate changes. Additionally, the columns were to be incorporated into a northwest–southeast trending cross section, and integrated into previous work in order to help reconstruct the tectonic and paleogeographic history of the area.
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2005 - 2006 NCGS $750 MASTERS DEGREE
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
The NCGS is pleased to provide details to the earlier announcement of the award of the 2006 Graduate Scholarship (Masters Degree) of $750 to Ms. Emily Fudge. She is a student in the Department of Geology at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. Her thesis topic is/was "Tectonic History and Bulk Geochemistry Analysis of the Grey Rocks Outlier, Klamath Mountains, California". Her advisor was Dr. Susan M. Cashman. The following synopsis has been greatly simplified from Emily’s submittal: The Grey Rocks outlier consists of Devonian greenstone overlying Ordovician ultramafic rocks of the Trinity terrane within the Eastern Klamath Belt (EKB). The Klamath Mountains province consists of a complex series of accreted terranes that extend from Mount Shasta to the current coastline, and are juxtaposed along north-south striking reverse faults. The EKB is the eastern-most accreted terrane in the province. An ambiguity in the nature of the contact between Grey Rocks and the EKB, (correlation to multiple greenstone outcrops in three different terranes within the EKB, interpretation of the contact as either a depositional unconformity, or as a low-angle normal fault), as well as evidence for late Mesozoic or Tertiary extensional faulting in the Klamath Mountains lead to the map project. Field mapping in 2005 identified the basal contact as a fault and the Grey Rocks allochthon exhibited sheared rock sections up to 20 feet thick. The mapping supported previous work that found other allochthons to have faulted basal contacts; extensional faults were proposed to extend across the region as a result of gravitational collapse. This funding would help pay for lab investigations including petrologic, XRF, and XRD analyses of the Grey Rocks assemblage to help correlate the rocks to other greenstones in the three terranes within the EKB. The data will be incorporated into a digital database of the Klamath Mountains being complied by the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
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2004 - 2005 NCGS $500 Undergraduate Scholarship Award
The Northern California Geological Society is pleased to announce that Ms. Sunshine Mansfield at Humboldt State University has been awarded the Society's $500.00 Undergraduate College Scholarship for the Year 2004 - 2005. Ms. Mansfield's proposal "Structural and Petrologic investigation of the Cooksie Shear Zone, Mendocino Triple Junction, California" describes an analysis of an important and interesting problem relevant to Northern California geology. Her proposal was selected from a field of well designed and highly competitive applications. We look forward to a presentation of her research findings at a future meeting of the NCGS in the year 2005.
2004 - 2005 NCGS $1,000 Graduate College Scholarship Award
The Northern California Geological Society is pleased to announce that Ms. Christen Rowe at the University of California at Santa Cruz has been awarded the Society's annual $1,000 Graduate College Scholarship for the year 2004-2005. Ms. Rowe’s proposal Fluid-Assisted Metamorphism Along a Dismembered Fragment of the Coast Range Thrust, Ring Mountain, Marin County, California describes a creative analysis of new data relevant to northern California geology. Her proposal was selected from a field of well designed and highly competitive applications. We look forward to a presentation of her research findings at a future meeting of the NCGS in the year 2005.
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2003 - 2004 NCGS $1,000 Graduate Scholarship Award
The Northern California Geological Society is pleased to announce an award of $1000 to Mr. Chad Pritchard of Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, for his Master of Science thesis project on Deciphering Recent Coseismic Subsidence Events of Northern Humboldt Bay, California. Mr. Pritchard’s research program is aimed at refining chronology and stratigraphic patterns of salt marsh subsidence and regional synclinal and anticlinal uplift episodes, in response to Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes. The proposal was selected from a field of nine well-designed and highly competitive applications, on topics including paleoclimate pattern interpretation, extensional crustal deformation, timing of regional fault slip episodes, acid mine drainage contamination, fluvial geomorphology and river habitat zonation, processes and patterns of cavern weathering, and landslide hazard mapping. We congratulate Mr. Pritchard on his award, and look forward to a presentation of his research at a future meeting of the Society in the year 2004.