THE WATERS AWARD 
The Waters Award, named for the founder of the Earth Sciences Department at U.C. Santa Cruz, is a research grant issued annually to that graduate student judged by the faculty to have submitted the most outstanding proposal for Ph.D. research. Donations in honor of Aaron and Elizabeth Waters have made this award possible.
Recipients
1974 HARVEY M. KELSEY
Landsliding, Channel Changes, Sediment Yield and Land Use in the Van Duzen River Basin, Ca., 1941-75
1975 PETER J. VAUGHAN
Deformation Mechanisms in Olivine and Spinel Phases of Magnesium Germanate and Applications to the Earth’s Mantle
1976 MALCOLM DAVID HILL
Petrology and Geochemistry of Greenstones and Granite Rocks of Kodiak Island, Alaska
1977 KEVIN J. COPPERSMITH
Multifactor Fault Activity Analysis of the Zayante-Vergeles Fault Zone in Central California
1978 RAY E. WELLS
Paleomagnetism and Tectonics of the Cresent Formation and Overlying Sedimentary Rocks, S.W. Washington
1979 ALLEN L. STORK
Low-K, Silicic Volcanism and Plutonium in Fiji, Southwest Pacific
1980 MARTIN G. MORRICE
Petrology and Geochemistry of the Sangihe Volcanic Arc, Indonesia
1981 CATHERINE R. NEWTON
Paleoecology and Stratigraphy of Upper Triassic Carbonates in the Wrangellian Terrane, Oregon and Alaska
1982 SAMUEL J. LONGIARU
Structural Evolution, Paleomagnetism of the Spongtang Ophiolite Klippe Area Northwest Himalaya
1983 SARAH M. ROESKE
Metamorphic History and Petrology of the Kodiak Schist, Kodiak Island, Alaska
1984 NANCY A. BREEN
Investigations in Accretionary Wedge Structure
1985 MITCHELL W. COLGAN
Taphonomy, Sedimentology and Diagenesis of an Uplifted Coral Community, Urvina Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands
1986 DAVID L. MALMQUEST
Taphonomy of Recent and Miocene Marine Mammal Assemblages, Laguna Ojo di Liebre and Isle Cedros (Almejas form.), Baja California Sur, Mexico
1987 DANIEL L. ORANGE
Determining the Role of Fluids and Mass Transfer in Controlling the Physical, Chemical and Structural Evolution in Accretionary Prisms
1988 GIOVANNI GUGLIELMO, Jr.
An Examination of the Nature and Timing of Pluton Emplacement
1989 EILEEN HEMPHILL-HALEY
Microfloral and Microfaunal Evidence for Coseismic Subsidence Related to Earthquakes Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, Willapa Bay, Southwestern Washington
1990 RICHARD J. BEHL
The Origin of Chert in the Montery Formation of California
1990 STUART A. GILDER
Relationships Between the Yangtze Craton and the South China Accretionary Fold Belt: Geometry and Evolution of a Cryptic Suture
1991 DANIEL L. FARBER
Phase Equilibria. Element Partitioning, and Diffusion at High-Pressures and Temperatures:
Constraints on Production and Preservation of Chemical Heterogeneities Within the Mantle
1991 GABRIEL M. FILIPPELLI
Variations in the Miocene Deep Sea Phosphorus Flux—Implications for the Marine Phosphorus Cycle
1992 HAROLD J. TOBIN
A Proposal to Measure Velocity vs. Effective Stress in Accretionary Prism Faults: The Effect of High
Fluid Pressure and Implications for Fault Hydrogeology
1993 JOSEPH GALEWSKY
Tectonics of the Ramu-Markham-Huon Foredeep Basin and Deep Structure of the PNG Collision Zone
1993 KIRSTEN M. MENKING
Quantification of Weathering and Erosion in the Sierra Nevada with Oscillating Climate
1994 JESSICA FAUST
The Equation of State of Majoritic-Garnet Synthesized in Natural Basalt at Mantle Conditions: Implications for Recycling of the Oceanic Crust
1995 KATHERINE McINTYRE
Links Between Surface and Deep Water Chemistry in High Sedimentation Rate Sediments from the Feni Drift: Deep Water Formation and Northern Hemisphere Climate Change
1996 PETER WEILER
Paleomagnetic Study of an Active Arc-Continent Collision, Finisterre Arc Terrane, Papua New Guinea
1997 GREGORY DICK
Bedrock Channel Erosion: Estimates of Rates and Controls in Several Rivers
1997 KRISTINA L. FAUL
Paleoproductivity and Climate: Last Glacial Maximum Eastern Equatorial Pacific Upwelling,
Palogene Oceanic Nutrient Budgets and Productivity
1998 CHRISTOPHER J. PLUHAR
Late Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone in Southern Owens Valley, CA
1999 HENRY SCOTT
Hydrothermal Experiments Relevant To Icy Satellites
1999 ARADHNA TRIPATI
Paleotemperature Reconstructions Using Mollusk Shell Stable Isotope Profiles
2000 LESLIE A. PERG
Cosmogenic Nuclide Constraints on Active Margin Coastline Uplift and Geomorphic Rates, Santa Cruz, CA
2000 MARK CLEMENTZ
The Evolution of Herbivorous Marine Mammals: Ecological and Physiological Transitions During The Evolution of the Orders Sirinea and Desmostylia
2001 PETER N. ADAMS
Mechanics, Timescales and Evolution of Rocky Coastline Embayment AND Fluvial Response to Blind Thrusting: The Formation of Wind Gaps and Transverse Canyons
2001 COPE M. WILLIS
Assessing Natural and Human Alterations to Coastal Sediment Supply in California and Implications for Regional Beach Sustainability
2002 MARTHA EVONUK
Numerical Modeling of Convection and Magnetic Field Generation in the Interior of a Hot Jupiter
2002 GREGORY M. STOCK
Rates of River Incision and Landscape Evolution in the Sierra Nevada, California, from Cave Deposits
2003 SETH D. NEWSOME
Holocene Ecological and Environmental Shifts on the Northeast Pacific Margin: Insights from the Geochemistry of Archaeofauna
2004 KENA FOX-DOBBS
The Dietary Ecology of Pleistocene and Holocene Carnivores: A Stable Isotope Approach
2005 DARREN TOLLSTRUP
Evolution of Ocean Island Arcs: Sources, Processes, and Timescales
2005 YINGCAI ZHENG
Upper Mantle Discontinuities and Earth's Small-Scale Heterogeneities
2006 SARAH HALL
Forearc deformation along the Peruvian margin: Quantifying the rates of Qaternary deformation using in situ produced cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al
2006 JULIANA ROKOSKY
High resolution studies of lowermost mantle anisotropy: Investigating the relationship between strain transients and tremor in subduction zones
2006 PATRICK V. WHEATLEY
Stable isotopes as deep time proxies for understanding ancient herpetological diets and habitats
2007 KATHRYN SNELL
Hot and Cold, High and Dry? Using D47 paleothermometry and oxygen isotope analysis to untangle the climatic and tectonic histories of the Late Cretaceous, Early Eocene and Late Miocene in western North America
|
