November 4, 2013 at 9:00 am

Geology Student Wins GSA Award for Limestone Research

Audrey Blakeman studying freshwater limestone in the Great Green River Basin in Wyoming.

Audrey Blakeman, a graduate student in the M.S. in Geological Sc iences program, won the Kerry Kelts Research Award at the Geological Society of America’s 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition Oct. 27–30 in Denver.

Dr. Amy Mrybo, chair of the Limnogeology Division of the Geological Society of America, and Audrey Blakeman.

The GSA Limnogeology Division established the student research award in 2004 in honor of Kerry Kelts, a visionary limnogeologist and inspiring teacher. The award of $1,000 is for research related to limnogeology, limnology, or paleolimnology.

Blakeman’s award-winning proposal is on “Carbonate lake deposits in the fluvial Bridger Formation of the Great Green River Basin, Wyoming.” She spent August 2013 working on the freshwater limestones. Her adviser is Dr. Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, Professor of Geological Sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University.