Nevada Geosciences Research Symposium (NGRS)
This day-long event brings together students, faculty, staff, and researchers in the integrated Nevada Geosciences group which includes members of the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, and the Nevada Seismological Laboratory.
The NGRS provides an opportunity for undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, and post docs to present their research to the broader Nevada Geosciences community as well as members of other University departments, industry, other government agencies, and the public. We hope this sharing of knowledge and research will inspire great discussions and potential collaborations.
View the event page here. To present your research, please complete the Abstract Submission by April 3, 2026!
2025 Nevada Geosciences Research Symposium
Download the 2025 Program (PDF)
Oral presentations
ORAL SESSION 1: ENERGY AND RESOURCE GEOLOGY
8:45-10:00 in DMSC 102
12-minute talks with 3 minutes for questions
| T1 | Nicole Wagoner | Exploring Geothermal Potential of Great Basin Sub-Regions |
| T2 | Amber Prevallet | Multi-Scale Structural and Geochemical Analysis of Gold Mineralization at the REN Deposit, Carlin Trend, Nevada |
| T3 | Travis Fisher | The Taylor District in White Pine County, Nevada: History and Geology |
| T4 | Brock Moody | The Global Lithium Landscape: Uncovering Resources for the Clean Energy Age |
| T5 | Marcus Angus | Constraining Mineralization and Alteration Through New Geologic Mapping at the Spring Peak Sinter-Vein System, Mineral County, NV |
ORAL SESSION 2: GEODESY, SEISMOLOGY, AND ICE
1:00-2:30 in DMSC 103
12-minute talks with 3 minutes for questions
| T6 | Annie Patton | Systematic Measurements of Rupture Directivity for California Earthquakes |
| T7 | Nina Miller | Modulation of Lower Crustal Dike Openings by Seasonal Crustal Strain in the Western United States |
| T8 | Danielle Kinkel | Toward Earthquake Early Warning in Nevada |
| T9 | Maia Zhang | Insights into the 2020 Monte Cristo Range Earthquake Sequence from a Near-Source Aftershock Deployment |
| T10 | Aren Crandall-Bear | Effects on Siesmic Hazard from Seasonal to Multi-Annual Hydrological Mass Loading Changes of the Southern Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane Faults from GPS and InSAR Time Series Models |
| T11 | Kayleigh Dohm | Firn Velocity Structure with Distributed Acoustic Sensing on Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
ORAL SESSION 3: OROGENY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY
2:45-4:15 in DMSC 103
12-minute talks with 3 minutes for questions
| T12 | Jessie Shields | Experimental melting of eclogite hosted polycrystalline melt inclusions |
| T13 | Dominik Vlaha | Tectonic overpressure preserved in mid-crustal rocks of the Tethyan Himalaya |
| T14 | Henry Zhou | Numerical modeling of the topography and crustal thickness evolution in the transition stage between subduction and collision: a case study of the Gangdese magmatic orogeny, southern Tibet |
| T15 | Terry Lee | Continental Lithosphere Thermal Model: Case Studies from the Western U.S. and Central Asia |
| T16 | Priyasha Negi | Topographic Controls on Atmospheric CO2 Release from Shale Weathering |
| T17 | Cody Russo | Constraining empirical relationships for the prediction of mean debris flow velocity |
Poster presentations
ENERGY AND RESOURCE GEOLOGY
| P1 | Alyssa Lindsey | Understanding Overlapping Mineralization of the Ruby Hill Deposit, Eureka, NV |
| P2 | Homay Fath | Mapping Likely Source Rock of Rhylite Ridge Lithium Project |
| P3 | Cutter Morebeck | The Taylor District in White Pine County, Nevada: History and Geology |
| P4 | Griffin Burke-Ruhl | A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Geospatial Inventory of Mine Waste Features in Western Nevada |
GEOMORPHOLOGY AND GEODESY
| P5 | Michael Robinson | Predicting the direction and rate of drainage divide migration from hillslope morphology |
| P6 | Adan Albarran Ayala | Cover in bedrock step-pool channels counter-intuitively increases with increasing water discharge |
| P7 | Rob Fuller | Isolating a Vertical and Eastward Anamoly in the United States Between 2001 and 2005 |
| P8 | Hannah Martin | Geomorphic characterization of fault creep in the San Francisco Bay Area, California |
| P9 | Ruben Underwood-Aguilar | Possible Evidence of Paleoseismicity on the Whipple Detachment, California |
| P10 | Simone Masoch | Geological evidence of earthquakes along a Miocene detachment |
VOLCANOES
| P11 | Jakob Scheel | Modeling Fluid-Solid Interaction During Mafic Magmatic Enclave Disintegration |
| P12 | Andrea Buian | Thermal evolution of the McDermitt Caldera plumbing system from quartz geothermobarometer and cathodoluminescence imaging |
| P13 | Philipp Ruprecht | Triple-Geohazard in the Southern Andes - How a volcanic system links active tectonics with eruption dynamics and surface evolution |
| P14 | Desiree Guzman | Investigating Magma Sources of Caldera-Forming Eruptions Using Trace Element Analysis |
MOUNTAIN BUILDING AND OROGENY
| P15 | David Alizadeh | Thermal architecture of the Tethyan Himalaya thrust belt, northwestern India |
| P16 | Samuel Rocha | Cretaceous and Miocene history of plutonism, diking, and deformation in the Chemehuevi metamorphic core complex |
| P17 | Abby Chobany | Evolution from Subduction into Convergence: A Metamorphic Analysis of the Gangdese Orogen |
| P18 | Ryan Parkyn | New insights into the back-arc basin evolution of the North American Cordillera |
ICE ON EARTH AND OTHER PLANETS
| P19 | Wendy Calvin | Spectra of Condensed Oxygen (O2) with application to Jupiter's moon Ganymede |
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