Awards and Honors

2009

• Research Grants
  • Dr. Mackey, Dr. Fujita - Department of Energy (2009-2012): Seismic and Geophysical Characterization of Northern Asia.
  • Dr. Hyndman, Dr. Van Dam, Dr. Kendall - National Science Foundation (2009-2012): Multi-scale Monitoring and Modeling of Land Use and Climate Change Impacts on the Terrestrial Hydrologic Cycle in the Great Lakes Basin. .
  • Dr. Libarkin - NASA Global Education Grant (2009-2011): Earth System Science: A Key to Climate Literacy.
  • Dr. Van Dam, Dr. Hyndman - National Science Foundation (2009-2011): Acquisition of an Electrical Resistivity System to Monitor Hydrologic Impacts of Climate and Land Use Changes and to Image Subsurface Transport and Density Driven Flow.
  • Dr. Hyndman, Dr. Van Dam - National Science Foundation (2009-2011): Documenting the transient nature of natural free convection in groundwater.
  • Dr. Clark, Dr. Libarkin - National Science Foundation (2009-2010): Investigation of alternative conceptions about Plate Tectonics across the expert-novice continuum – when a well-known theory isn’t so well known.
• Faculty Awards and Honors
  • Dr. Fujita - James D. Hoeschele Endowed Teaching Award in Integrative Studies.
  • Dr. Libarkin - Editor of Journal of Geoscience Education
• Student Awards and Honors
  • PhD s tudent Nicole Ladue - University Distinguised Fellowship.
  • MSc student Matt Malkowski - Geological Society of America graduate student research grant.
  • PhD student Abby Norton - 2009-2010 University FAST Fellowship.
  • Undergraduate student Victoria McCoy - Selected as 2009 Goldwater Scholar.
  • Undergraduate student Hillary Ott - Selected as a Geological Society
    of America - GeoCorps America participant.
    
    

2008

• Research Grants
  • Dr. Sibley - National Science Foundation (2008-2012): Robert Noyce Scholars Phase II: Preparing teachers for a new era.
  • Dr. Libarkin - National Science Foundation (2008-2011): Collaborative research: Exploring the expert-novice continuum: Behavioral cognition in geology.
  • Dr. Hyndman, Dr. Van Dam - National Science Foundation (2008-2011): Collaborative research: High resolution dynamic characterization of transport pathways: providing new insights into transport processes.
  • Dr. Rooney (2008-2010): Slab-tear related magmatism in the Panama Canal - MSU Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies.
  • Dr. Van Dam - American Chemical Society (2008-2010): Three-dimensional stratigraphic models of sedimentary deposits using full-resolution ground-penetrating radar.
  • Dr. Sibley - National Science Foundation (2008-2010): Analyzing constructed responses: Using linguistic software to understand students' conceptions in science.
  • Dr. Sibley - National Science Foundation (2008-2009): A framework for reasoning in cell biology courses.
  • Dr. Kirkpatrick, Dr. Kalinichev - Department of Energy (2008-2009): Computational and spectroscopic investigations of the molecular scale structure and dynamics of geologically important fluids and mineral-fluid interfaces.
  • Dr. Schaetzl - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (2008-2009): The fertility potential intex: Expanding on prior USFS research on soils as barometers of forest health.
  • Dr. Hampton, Dr. Libarkin, Dr. Rooney, Dr. Van Dam (2008-2009): Center for Undergraduate Research in Earth Systems Science - MSU Dean of Undergraduate Research.
  • Dr. Libarkin - National Science Foundation (2008-2009): Facilitating Student Understanding of Change in the Earth System on Multiple Time Scales (consultant).
• Faculty Awards and Honors
  • Dr. Ralph Taggart - Geological Society of America Fellow.
  • Dr. David Long - Geological Society of America Fellow.
  • Drs. Van Dam and Hyndman - Geophysical Research Letters Article selected for AGU Editor's highlight, chosen for Cover Art, and received MSU Center for Water Science 2008 Best Paper Award.
  • Dr. Danita Brandt - Michigan Science Teachers Co-finalist, College Teacher of the Year.
  • Dr. Julie Libarkin - MSU Lorena V. Blinn Endowed Teaching Award.
  • Dr. Aureal Cross - MSU Meritorious Faculty Award.
• Student Awards and Honors
  • Dr. David Szymanski - 2008-2009 Geological Society of America Congressional Fellow.PhD student Paulo Hidalgo - Geological Society of America graduate student research grant.
  • PhD student Anna Losiak - Geological Society of America graduate student research grant.
  • Undergraduate student Rory Hunter - Selected as a Geological Society
    of America - GeoCorps America participant.

2007

• Research Grants
  • Dr. Libarkin - National Science Foundation (2007-2010): Collaborative research: Community development of and expanded Geoscience Concept Inventory: A webcenter for question generation, validation and online testing.
  • Dr. Libarkin - National Science Foundation (2007-2010): Collaborative research: Evaluating student learning in geoscience curricula that employ conceptests using electronic student response systems.
  • Dr. Hyndman, Dr. Van Dam - Friends of the Jordan (2007-2009): Study of the Jordan River watershed and deltaic deposits .
• Faculty Awards and Honors
  • Dr. Julie Libarkin - Geological Society of America Jim Shea Award
  • Dr. Ralph Taggart - MSU Meritorious Faculty Award
• Student Awards and Honors
  • MSc student Jennifer DeLoge- Geological Society of America graduate student research grant
  • PhD student Anthony Kendall - First prize in the graduate student poster competition at the AIPG meeting in Traverse City, MI. The title of his poster was "Predicting the Distribution of Groundwater Recharge at Regional Scales with the Integrated Landscape Hydrology Model (ILHM) ".
  • MSc student Robert Ayslworth - second prize in the graduate student poster competition at the AIPG meeting in Traverse City, MI. His poster was titled "A Geophysical Study of Glaciotectonic Deformation, Ludington Ridge, Michigan".

2006

• Research Grants
  • Dr. Hyndman - U.S. Geological Survey (2006-2011): USGS natural resources integrated information system.
  • Dr. Fujita, Dr. Mackey - U.S. Department of Energy (2006-2009): Regional-scale differential time methods: development and application to Siberia data set.
  • Dr. Gottfried - National Science Foundation (2006-2009): Closing the African gap: Cretaceous and Paleogene paleontology of the Rukwa Rift Basin; SW Tanzania.
  • Dr. Van Dam - Strategic Research and Development Center, U.S. Department of Defense (2006-2008): Improving detection and discrimination of UXO in geologically hostile environments.
  • Dr. Brandt, Dr. Hyndman, Dr. Van Dam (2006-2007): Center for Undergraduate Research in Earth Systems Science - MSU Dean of Undergraduate Research.
  • Dr. Long - Michigan Community Health (2006): Improving the ability of medical professionals to identify children and places with high risk of lead poisoning.
• Faculty Awards and Honors
  • Dr. David Hyndman - Geological Society of America Fellow

2005

• Research Grants
  • Dr. Long - Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (2005-2011): A strategic environmental quality monitoring program for Michigan’s surface waters: The inland lakes sediments.
  • Dr. Mantha - National Science Foundation (2005-2009): A hierarchical and patch dynamics paradigm for modeling complex, 3D groundwater systems across multiple scales.
  • Dr. Brandt, Dr. Schaetzl - Education-Curriculum Development Grant (2005-2008):Textbook: "Michigan: A Geography" - Pearson Education.
  • Dr. Mantha - NOAA National Undersea Research Center (2005-2008): Improved understanding and forecasting of viral and bacterial sources and transport in the Great Lakes.
  • Dr. Velbel - NASA (2005-2008): Silicate-evaporite relations in Martian meteorites and terrestrial analogs: implications for water on Mars.
  • Dr. Long, Dr. Mantha - Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (2005-2008): Evaluation of remediation in Schoolcraft.
  • Dr. Larson - U.S. Geological Survey (2005-2006): Surficial geology of the Lower Grand Traverse Bay basin, Michigan.
  • Dr. Schaetzl - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (2005-2006): Development of a dryness/wetness index for soils of the United States based on their taxonomic classification.
• Faculty Awards and Honors
  • Dr. Aureal Cross - American Association of Petoleum Geologists Grover E. Murray Distinguished Educator Award.

2004

• Research Grants
  • Dr. Fujita, Dr. Mackey - U.S. Department of Energy (2004-2008): Seismic characterization of northeast Asia.
  • Dr. Long - National Institute of Health (2004-2008): Training and research in environmental health in the Balkans.
  • Dr. Schaetzl - National Science Foundation (2004-2008): Spatial signatures of soils and sediments: geomorphic research on silty soils in the Midwest USA.
  • Dr. Mantha - National Science Foundation (2004-2008): Quantifying the role of mixing interfaces in biogeochemical cycling in a contaminated aquifer-wetland system: Linking hydrogeological, microbiological, and geochemical processes.
  • Dr. Mantha - U.S. Department of Commerce & NOAA National Undersea Research Center (2004-2008): Influence of combined sewer overflows on Cryptosporidium and Giardia accumulation in sediments and impacts on water quality and health in the Great Lakes.
  • Dr. Vogel, Dr. Patino - National Science Foundation (2004-2007): Collaborative research: Structure, conditions and magmatic processes within an active volcano: Analysis of samples from boreholes drilled into the conduit of Unzen Volcano.
  • Dr. Hyndman, Dr. Long - Great Lakes Fisheries Trust (2004-2006): Fish recruitment at the interface of the Great Lakes and their watersheds.
  • Dr. Schaetzl - National Science Foundation (2004-2006): Assessing landscape disturbance and recovery across a WWI battlefield: Verdun, France.
  • Dr. Yansa - Hanes Fund (2004-2006): Development of the flora of southern Lower Michigan over the last 8000 years: A pollen and plant macrofossil study of Miner and Duck Lakes.
  • Dr. Gottfried - National Geographic Society (2004-2005): Expanding the record of Cretaceous vertebrates from Tanzania.