We gathered on March 19, 2025, to honor and celebrate the relentless dedication and unwavering ambition of our GES students, who have demonstrated excellence in both academics and beyond. Congratulations to our award recipients:
| ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FIELD SCHOLARSHIP | ||
| Chelsea McNeff | Yellowstone | |
| Madison Oreski | Yellowstone | |
| NORMAN K. FLINT MEMORIAL FIELD GEOLOGY AWARD | ||
| Elijah Copich | Idaho State: Idaho Rockies | |
| Quinn Eisenberger | Lehigh: Tetons, Yellowstone, Big Horn Basin WY | |
| Sandeep Karunaratne | SDSM French Alps | |
| Allison O'Neil | Illinois State: Yellowstone to Big Horn Mtns, WY | |
| Kayleigh Phillips | SDSM New Zealand | |
| Sasha Reeder | Lehigh: Tetons, Yellowstone, Big Horn Basin WY | |
| Tyler Weinberger | Idaho State: Idaho Rockies | |
| SAMUEL B. FRAZIER UNDERGRADUATE BOOK SCHOLARSHIP | ||
| Ella Clayton | Books | |
| Camille Foessel | Books | |
| William Schuck | Books | |
| CHRISTOPHER HAPKE MEMORIAL PLANETARY AWARD | ||
| Elijah Copich | Automatic detection of Martian scoria cones using deep learning | |
| HEINZ FIELD EXPERIENCE/STUDY ABROAD AWARD | ||
| Katherine Boyes | West African Research Center in Senega | |
| Cassie Matalonis | IES ‘Business, Sustainability, and Immigration’ in France | |
| Kyla Walker | Pitt Global Services Learning in Puerto Rico | |
| HENRY LEIGHTON MEMORIAL GRADUATE AWARD | ||
| Emeka Emordi | A Biomarker Record of Paleoclimate and Environmental Change in Tropical North America from the Sediments of Lake Chalco, Mexico | |
| Godspower Ubit | Reconstructing regional climate variability in Chilean Patagonia over the last 2,000 years from lake sediments | |
| Abby Yancy | Assessing the impact of invasive knotweed (Reynoutria × bohemica) on riparian soil cycling | |
| Aidan York | Obtaining New Thermochronometric Constraints for Deformation Events within the North American Cordillera, Western USA | |
| DR. J. FREDERICK AND ANN SARG RESEARCH AWARD | ||
| Jason Aguirre | Identifying nutrient subsidies and hydrologic dynamics in urban streams | |
| Poushalee Banerjee | Understanding the relation between differential growth rates and coexistence in native Brook and non-native Brown Trout across diverse stream habitats | |
| Adnan Deshaee | Tracing Contamination in Urban Waters Using Boron Isotopes: Insights from Philadelphia Background | |
| Adeel Jehangir | Holocene Variations in the Strength of Winter Westerlies in Pakistan’s Himalayas Based on Lake Sediment Studies | |
| Sara Khan | Reconstructing climate and environmental change in central Chile during the Common Era | |
| Anthony Schneider | Assessing Copper Riparian Dynamics in Knotweed Dominated Floodplains | |
| GARY SITLER GRADUATE AWARD | ||
| Giannina Ramirez | Climate and Land Use Change Recorded in Sediments of Laguna Encantada, Chetumal, Mexico | |
| Fan Gao | Systematic quantification of fault displacement along strike-slip faults to reduce earthquake hazards | |