Second Place: Divya Shukla –  Terraforming Terrestrial Planets

Honorable Mention: Keira Boehle and Heba Dalu –  Paradome: Paraterraform Your Paradise

Second Place: Reem Alomar – Seismic data matching by least-squares non-stationary triangle smoothing

Honorable Mention: Matthew Riley – Chlorine and Flourine Abundances of Hydrous Minerals in Colorado Plateau Mantle Xenoliths: A Step Towards Quantifying the Mantle Halogen Budget

Second Place: Patricia Standring – Deep Ocean Circulation in the Southern Gulf of Mexico at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition

Honorable Mention: Mariel D. Nelson – Characterizing short-term alluvial river bank erosion patterns with time-lapse airborne lidar and UAV-derived structure-from-motion topography data

Second Place: Gabrielle Varona – Paleogeographic evolution of the Orange and Green sands in WR 313, Deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Honorable Mention: Maximillian Ehrenfels – Intrusion and cooling history of some late-tectonic Salem granites (Namibia) as deduced from U-Pb and Ar-Ar thermochronology and implications for the Damara orogeny

Second Place: Nicholas Meszaros – Emergence of supervolcanism at Valles Caldera as recorded by changes in oxygen fugacity and crystal cargo

Honorable Mention: Molly Zebker – Tropospheric Artifact Estimates to Optimize InSAR Time Series Without In Situ or Weather Model Information

Best Performance: Daniel Stockli

Best Representation (%): Rowan Martindale

Second Place (Tie): Lochana Kalyanaraman –  Analyzing Earth’s Processes for Space Exploration: Carrying our Knowledge of Life Beyond Earth

Second Place (Tie): Enrique Morales –  Planet Terra

Second Place: Reem Alomar – Estimating the triangular smoothing radius using the Gauss-Newton method

Honorable Mention: Katherine Faulkner – Categorizing Variations of Phanerozoic Foraminifera Mineralogy

Second Place: Emily Bamber – How did Mars’ crater paleolakes form? Insights from Geomorphology

Honorable Mention: Ethan Conrad – Cenozoic Evolution of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary: Insights from Thermochronometric, Kinematic and Geomorphic Data

Second Place: Joseph Syzdek – Mechanical Stratigraphic Control on Deformation in a Fault-Propagation Fold, Gobbler Anticline, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

Honorable Mention: Bethany Rysak – Analysis of Hydraulic Fracture Growth and Segmentation: Implications of Observations From the HFTS1 Slant Core, Wolfcamp Fm., Midland Basin, West Texas

Second Place: Kwun Yip Fung – Testing different dataset and machine learning methods accuracy in producing the Austin Local Climate Zone map

Honorable Mention: Grace Beaudoin – The evolution of the halogen budget in ophiolites from the Western Alps

First Place: Timothy Goudge

Second Place: Daniel Stockli

Second Place: Rawan Alasad – Flow transformations in subaerial and subaqueous debris flows

Third Place (Tie): Brandon Shuck – Subduction initiation is a four dimensional process

Third Place (Tie): Cole Speed – A river through time

Third Place (Tie): Emily Bamber – Mechanisms of forming fluvial valleys into craters on Mars

Third Place (Tie): Ethan Conrad – Hypothesis for the Cenozoic evolution of the Northern Caribbean plate boundary

Third Place (Tie): Grace Beaudoin – Halogen geochemical cycling

Third Place (Tie): Samuel Robbins – Red Sea rift model

Second Place: Ryan  Herring –  Deducing the Timing and Magnitude of Late Quaternary Mississippi River Deltaic Progradation and Retrogradation Coeval with the Waning Phase of the Last Glacio-eustatic Cycle by Modelling Volumetric Flooding Rate and Sediment Discharge Since the Cessation of the Late Wisconsin Glacial Stage

Honorable Mention: Anthony Edgington – Stratigraphic Architecture and Provenance of the Cretaceous Cerro Barcino Formation, Patagonian Broken Foreland Basin, Southern Argentina

Second Place: Cole Speed – Linking Geomorphology and Stratigraphy at an Ancient Fluvial Avulsion Node: An example from the Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Eastern Utah, USA

Honorable Mention: Ethan Conrad – Plexiglass melt during rotary-shear experiments as an analog of pseudotachylite formation

Second Place: Micaela Pedrazas Hinojos –  Ice-free beaches and lagoon sediment in the Arctic coast

Honorable Mention: Samuel Robbins – Constraining the tectono-thermal evolution of the Egyptian Red Sea margin: linking observations from the proximal to the hyperextended rift domain

Second Place: Brandon Shuck –  Strike-Slip Enables Subduction Initiation Beneath a Failed Rift: New Seismic Constraints from Puysegur Margin, New Zealand

Honorable Mention: Sophie Goliber –Characterizing buoyant conditions of marine-terminating glaciers in West Greenland

First Place: David Mohrig

Second Place: Daniella Rempe

Second Place: Elizabeth Davis – Pyroclastic Flows from Mount St. Helens: The Effects of Topography on Flow Behavior and Deposition on the Leeward Slope

Honorable Mention: Jordan Oefinger – Evidence of Possible Ocean Acidification at the Paleocene-Early Eocene Boundary Recorded in the Adriatic Carbonate Platform

Second Place: Carolyn Tewksbury-Christ – Rheological Properties and Heterogeneities Along the Down-Dip Extent of a Subduction Megathrust: Insights from the Condrey Mountain Schist, Northern California

Honorable Mention: Kelly Olsen – Development of a shallow decollement along the south-central Chile margin from 2D seismic reflection data

Second Place: Sean Bader – Missing well log data interpolation and semiautomatic seismic well ties using data matching techniques

Honorable Mention: Scott Eckley – 3D Textural and Geochemical Analyses on Carbonado Diamond: Insights from Pores and the Minerals within Them

Second Place: Sarah George – Testing Models of Orogenic Development in Ecuador: Multi-proxy Provenance Analysis of the Hinterland Cuenca Basin

Honorable Mention: Rachel Bernard – Plagioclase-dominated Seismic Anisotropy in the Eastern Mojave Lower Crust

2nd Place: Julie Zurbuchen – Imaging Evidence for Hubbard Glacier Advances and Retreats since the Last Glacial Maximum in Disenchantment and Yakutat Bays, Alaska

2nd Place: Michael Cronin – Core-scale heterogeneity and dual-permeability pore structure in the Barnett Shale

2nd Place: Rattanaporn Fong-Ngern – Peculiar deepwater slope morphology in the semi-enclosed Mio-Pliocene Dacian Basin, Romania

2nd Place: Jake Jordan – Shock and Rarefaction Waves in a Heterogeneous Partial Melt

2nd Place: Kerstan Wallace – Use of 3-Dimensional Dynamic Modeling of CO2 Injection for Comparison toRegional Static Capacity Assessments of Miocene Sandstone Reservoirs in the Texas State Waters, Gulf of Mexico

2nd Place: Paul Betka – The formation of a retroarc fold-thrust belt by the closure and inversion of a back-arc basin; Patagonian-Fuegian fold-thrust belt, Chile

2nd Place: Robert Zinke – Pre-eruptive storage conditions and the eruption of Douglas Knob obsidian lava dome, Yellowstone Caldera

2nd Place:  Maureen LeVoir – Preliminary analysis of the Baranof Fan system, Gulf of Alaska, based on 2D seismic reflection and multibeam bathymetry data

2nd Place: Justin Fitch – Retroarc foreland basin evolution during Paleogene shortening, northern Altiplano plateau, southern Peru

2nd Place: Ethan Lake – Geometric controls on large volume mid-crustal magma chambers and magma evolution zones: A 3-D modeling approach