UWM structural geologists showed off their science at the this year’s Geological Society of America conference in Phoenix, Arizona which was held from September 22-25, 2019. Dyanna Czeck (faculty) presented a poster with coauthors Sheryl Stephenson (MS, 2018), Manuel Díaz-Azpiroz… Read More
MS Student Nancy Duque was recognized at the 2019 UWM Graduate Student Fellowship Celebration on September 25, 2019. She received the Jeannette Seloover Johnson and R. Douglas Johnson Women in Science & Technology Fellowship. Congratulations, Nancy!
2019 was the second year for UWM Department of Geosciences GO FoRWARD program. Through funding by the National Science Foundation (Dyanna is PI), GO FoRWARD provides first and second year undergraduate students from groups underrepresented in geosciences a paid opportunity… Read More
Congratulations again to Ernie Thalhamer who successfully defended his Master’s thesis in December 2018. Ernie’s thesis is now available to download from UWM’s Digital Commons.
In May, Falyn and Dyanna conducted more fieldwork on Antelope Island and nearby locations in north-central Utah. We got to work again with our esteemed colleague, Dr. Adolph Yonkee from Weber State. Falyn got all the samples she needs for her MS project and even got some of them cut up too!
In June, Dyanna presented two projects at the “Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology, and Tectonics” meeting in Tübingen, Germany. First was a poster on deformation and fluid flow in the Southern Iberian Shear Zone (with coauthors Sheryl Stephenson- recent MS graduate, Manuel… Read More
On Friday May 10, 2019, Nancy Duque presented her work at the annual UWM Senior Excellence in Research Awards (SERA) research seminar. Her presentation “Major element geochemistry of the Pulo do Lobo metasedimentary rocks affected by the Southern Iberian Shear… Read More
Congratulations to Falyn Strey who received a $750 grant from the Colorado Scientific Society Memorial Funds Research Grant “Quartz CPO fabric development in the Willard thrust fault, Utah.” Falyn will be using the money to conduct fieldwork and SEM work… Read More
Falyn Strey has been selected as a grant recipient for the 2019 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation Grants-in-Aid Program from the M. Ray Thomasson Named Grants. Falyn will be using the funds towards her MS project “Quartz CPO fabric development… Read More