2011 ($3500)

• Neal Auchter (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) U. of Montana: Analysis of incised channels in the Late Cretaceous Eagle Formation, south-central Montana
• Whitney G. Bausch (TRGS Scholarship) U. of Montana: Structural and thermochronological analysis of a lithologically-varied dike swarm, southwest MT
• Eduardo Francisco Guerrero (TRGS Scholarship) Oregon State University: Quantification of the landscape evolution over a mantle hot spot: deconvolving the uplift and geomorphic history of the Shoshone River drainage and the Yellowstone Crescent of High Terrain over the past 2 Ma.
• Victor Guevara (Harrison Scholarship) U. of Montana: Constraints on the Structural and Thermal Evolution of the Clearwater Metamorphic Core Complex, ID
• William Thomas Jackson, Junior (TRGS Scholarship) U. of Memphis: Paleoseismites of the Elk Basin anticline: Indicators to early-formed joint development and fold growth during paleoseismic events
• Samantha Kaster (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) U. of Montana: Analysis of a marine transgression in the Cretaceous Eagle Formation in south-central Montana
• Lauren Kay (TRGS Scholarship) Montana State University: Tectonic deformation as a taphonomic process: using dinosaur bones as strain indicators
• Anita Moore-Nall (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Montana State University: Physical and chemical characterization of brecciation and U-V mineralization in the Madison Limestone and adjacent units, Big Pryor Mountain mining district, Montana -Little Mountain mining district, Wyoming
• Laura Neser (TRGS Scholarship) U. of North Carolina: The timing of Laramide deformation in northwestern Wyoming
• Daniel L. Ross (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Montana State University: Structural Geology of the North-Half of the Swift Reservoir Culmination, Northern Sawtooth Range, Montana

2010 ($7600)

• Janice Brahney (TRGS Scholarship) U. of Colorado: Influence of historical dust and N deposition on the biogeochemistry of alpine lakes in the western USA
• Ryan Carter (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) U. of Montana: An architectural analysis of a laterally accreting paleoform for reservoir fluid modeling in the Cretaceous Eagle Formation sandstone, south-central Montana
• Skye Cooley (TRGS) Utah State: Co-evolution of the Pleistocene Bear River and Pluvial Lake Bonneville
• Evan Gearity (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Montana State: Geology of the Marysville mining district
• Matt Haacker (Harrison Scholarship) U. of Montana: Petrogenesis and age of meta-anorthosites in the northern Cordillera of western Montana
• Austin S. Hart (TRGS) Western Washington U.: Sedimentology, magneto-stratigraphy, and stable isotope stratigraphy of Rocky Mountain synorogenic deposits: Unroofing of the Beartooth Plateau
• Gordon Hicks (Harrison) U of Tennessee, Knoxville: The Curecanti pluton - an unusual Proterozoic intrusive body in context
• Adam Johnson (TRGS) U. of Montana: Testing the Bulge: Use of Neogene Bedrock Paleo-valleys to Test Models of the Yellowstone Thermal Dome and Related Deformation
• Kera A. Judy (TRGS) U. of Memphis: Layer parallel shortening: a mechanism for determining deformation timing in the Little Water Syncline of the Tendoy thrust sheet of the Cordilleran fold-thrust belt, southwestern Montana
• Mort Larsen (TRGS) Montana State: Reactivation(?) of Laramide structures by the 1959 Ms7.5 Hebgen Lake-Red Canyon earthquake sequence, Montana
• Kevin Lielke (TRGS) U. of Montana: Paleogeographic, stratigraphic and paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Paleogene Renova formation of Southwestern Montana
• Helen Lynn (TRGS) Montana State: Hydrocarbon and CO2 entrapment in the Stewart Peak culmination, northern Salt River Range, Wyoming: migration pathways and reservoir characterization
• Robert C. Mahon (Harrison) Idaho State: Geologic Map of the Saddle Peak Hills 7.5' Quadrangle and Sedimentology and Age Constraints of the Meso-Neoproterozoic Pahrump Group, Death Valley, California
• Laura Neser (TRGS) U. of North Carolina: The timing of Laramide deformation in northwestern Wyoming
• David Reioux (Harrison) U. of Montana: Metamorphic evolution of the southern Highland Mountains, Montana, and implications for the reconstruction of Laurentia
• Jill Sotendahl (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) Montana Tech: Economic geology of the Madison Gold copper-gold skarn deposit, Silver Star, Montana
• Eleanor Spangler (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) U, of Montana: Evaluation of a Massive Sandstone Unit in the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Formation in South Central Montana
• Liane Stevens (TRGS) U. of Montana: The Priest River Metamorphic Core Complex: Addressing a Gap in the Understanding of the Origin and Exhumation of Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes
• Whitney Treadway (TRGS) Montana State: Geologic Characterization of Modern CO2 Accumulations in Parts of the Idaho-Wyoming Fold-and-Thrust Belt
• Zackary S. Wall (TRGS) U. of Montana: Tracking the uplift of Yellowstone's thermal dome in SW Montana

2009 ($2500)

• Laura Neser (TRGS) Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Changes in Shortening Directions during the Laramide Orogeny in Northwestern Wyoming
• Jennifer N. Gifford (Harrison) University of Florida: A New View into the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle of the Great Falls Tectonic Zone
• Jennifer Rothfuss (TRGS) Univ. of Alabama: Cenozoic landscape evolution of a post-compressional orogenic wedge: Intermontane basin development and sediment dispersal patterns, Renova Formation, southwest Montana
• Warren Roe (TRGS) U. of Montana: Tertiary Paleogeography and Sedimentology of the Big Hole Basin, Southwestern Montana
• Jennifer L. Manion (TRGS) Washington State U.: The Older Epithermal System in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• Chelsea Carmichael (TRGS) Loma Linda Univ.: Evaluation of Newly Discovered Stromatolites and Associated Microbial Carbonates Occurring in Springs Near Brisco, British Columbia

2008 ($4,350)

• Eric Stewart (TRGS) Idaho State University: Geologic mapping in the Allan Mountain Quadrangle, east-central Idaho
• Timothy Nesheim (Harrison) Univ. of Iowa: Are 1.1 Ga deformational fabrics present in metasedimentary rocks of the Belt Supergroup, northern Idaho?
• Richard M. Gaschnig (General Assistance) Washington State Univ.: Zeroing in on basement terrane boundaries in central Idaho using inherited zircons from the Idaho batholith
• Cara Harwood (Harrison) University of California at Davis: Stromatolites and microbial bioherms from the Neoproterozoic Beck Spring Dolomite of southern California
• K.D. Gray (TRGS) Univ. of Idaho: Post-accretionary modification of the ocean-continent isotropic boundary in the northern Rocky Mountains, and the implications of superposed shear zones
• Brady Z. Foreman (TRGS) Univ. of Wyoming: Fluvial response to abrupt climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Bighorn and Piceance Creek Basins
• Eric E. Baar (General Assistance) Washington State Univ.: Regional-scale detrital zircon provenance study of the Middle to Late Ordovician Eureka Quartzite, east-central Idaho
• James F. Glover III (General Assistance) Washington State Univ.: Detrital zircon geochronology of Bonneville Flood deposits along the Snake River, Idaho: Implications for sediment dispersal patterns of megafloods
• Zachary J. Coppa (TRGS) Washington State Univ.: Differentiating the Bonneville Flood deposits from the Missoula Flood deposits using U-Pb geochronology and mineralogical analysis from Lewiston, Idaho, to Wallula Gap, Oregon
• Nigel Davies (TRGS) Western Washington Univ.: The Holocene glacial history of the Upper Green River Basin, Wind River Range, Wyoming
• Bailey Elkins (General Assistance) Univ. of Montana: Mapping of kinematics within the Lewis and Clark Line using GPS geodesy
• Michael R. Johnson (General Assistance) Univ. of Wyoming: Paleoclimate reconstruction through stable isotope analysis of soil carbonates in the southwestern Wyoming Washakie Basin

2007 ($3000)

• Kevin Lielke, University of Montana, Paleoenvironmental and tectonic reconstruction of Tertiary lake deposits in the Ruby and Madison basins of southwestern Montana (TRGS)
• Daniel Rybczynski, Utah State University, CORRELATION, PALEOGEOGRAPHY, AND PROVENANCE OF THE EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAIN GROUP, GOSLIN MOUNTAIN AREA, NORTHEASTERN UTAH (Harrison)
• Abigail E. Stephens, Oregon State University, The Lights Creek Stock copper deposits: porphyry Cu or evaporitic-source Cu Fe-oxide mineralization? (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship)
• James F. Glover, III, Washington State University, Detrital zircon geochronology and mineralogy of Bonneville Flood deposits along the Snake River, Idaho: Provenance and sediment dispersal patterns of megafloods (TRGS)
• Jennifer L. McHarge, University of Wyoming, Origins of Amalgamated Channel Sand Bodies in the Lance Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (TRGS)
• Daniel Jones, University of Wyoming, Mapping of the Big Creek Gneiss, Southern Sierra Madre, Wyoming (Harrison)

2006

• Julian G. McCune, University of Montana, Cenozoic Sedimentary Basin Evolution and Hydrostratigraphic Assessment of the Upper Blackfoot River Basin, Western Montana (TRGS)
• Erin Haney, University of Montana, P-T Paths of Metamorphic Pelitic Rocks in the Anaconda Metamorphic Core Complex (TRGS)
• Brandon Mijal, Western Washington University, Holocene glacial chronology for the Sawtooth Range, Idaho (TRGS)
• Heather M. Henry, University of Montana, Mapping of the Rocky Mountain Front Triangle Zone, Montana (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship)
• John MacLean, University of Montana, Stratigraphic analyses to test the Siberia-Laurentia connection (Harrison)
• Amy Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Using biomarkers to analyze biogeochemical changes across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary (Harrison)

2005 ($1500)

• Joshua Richards, University of Florida, Age and isotopic composition of Precambrian mafic dikes in the Wyoming Province: Window into the evolution of subcontinental lithosphere (TRGS)
• Kelly Probst, University of Florida, Assessing Precambrian crust through a geochemical investigation of Mesozoic plutons in the northwestern Cordillera: Implications for continental reconstruction (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship)
• Andy Brehm, Utah State University, Geologic mapping of the Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group, Uinta Mountains, Utah (Harrison)

2004 ($2000)

• Emily Geraghty, University of Montana (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Jurassic-aged fractures and grikes in Mississippian carbonate: Implications for fractured hydrocarbon reservoirs, Rocky Mountain Thrust Front
• Nancy E. Oyer, Montana Tech (Harrison) - Precambrian talc and quartz in upper amphibolite facies marbles of Archean age in the Gravelly and Ruby Ranges, Montana
• Quintin Overocker,University of Tennessee (Harrison) - Origin of breccias in the Wallace Formation, Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup, Montana and Idaho
• Warren Grice, University of Florida (TRGS) - Late Cretaceous to Eocene exhumation of the Anaconda metamorphic core complex, southwest Montana

2003 ($500)

• Matthew Hoffer, University of Idaho (TRGS) - Geologic mapping of the Careywood 7.5’ quadrangle, northern Idaho

2002 ($1500)

• Rebecca Kunz, University of Montana (TRGS) - The shonkinite intrusions of Garrison, Montana: A possible extension of the Adel Mountains Volcanics
• Grant S. Sha, Washington State University (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Anorthosites, medium to high-grade metamorphic rocks, and localized shear bands: A strain gradient profile map of Monumental Buttes/Goat mountain, St. Joe National Forest, northern Idaho
• Eric Burtis, University of Montana (Harrison) - The geochemistry and geochronology of a Neoproterozic sill complex in northwestern Montana: Implications for the Belt Basin

2001

• Mark Pollack, University of Tennessee, (Harrison) - Morphological variation in “molar-tooth” carbonate: Implications for genesis and substrate rheology
• Julie Kickham, Utah State University (TRGS) - Temporal and kinematic evolution of intrabasinal extensional folds in Grasshopper basin, southwest Montana
• Matthew Buoniconti, University of Miami (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Sequence stratigraphic distribution of reservoir and source rock facies in Mississippian ramp-to-basin carbonates, Idaho

2000

• Robert Houston, Oregon State University (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Is the Butte ore deposit tilted or not? A field geology study designed to resolve models of 5-12 degrees vs. >25 degrees of post-ore tilting
• Cal Ruleman, Montana State University, Bozeman - Late Quaternary Slip Rates on Range-bounding Normal Faults, North Arm of the Yellowstone Tectonic Parabola, Southwest Montana

1999

• Julia Murphy, University of Florida (TRGS) - Geochronology of synkinematic plutons in the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt, southwest Montana
• James D. Bigger, Eastern Washington University (Michael Thompson Foster Scholarship) - Waulsortian mounds, carbonates, and geologic mapping of the Green Ashley Gulch quadrangle, Big Snowy Mountains, central Montana
• Sam Coyner, University of Florida (TRGS) - The role of partial melting and magmatism during late orogenic extension, Bitterroot Metamorphic Core Complex, Montana/Idaho

1998

• Robert A. Houston, Oregon State University (TRGS) - Is the Butte ore deposit tilted or not? A field geology study designed to resolve models of 5-12 degrees vs. >25 degrees of post-ore tilting
• Joshua T. Goodman, University of Montana (Harrison) - Detailed geologic mapping of Belt rocks in the SW and SE Missoula quadrangles

1997

• Thomas Kalakay, University of Wyoming (TRGS) - Structural and thermochronologic study of the Pioneer batholith, southwest Montana: A test of the critical taper wedge model in the Sevier Orogen of southwest Montana
• Brian Collins, University of Montana (Harrison) - Stratigraphy of the Wallace Formation near Superior

1996

• Steve Porder, University of Montana (Harrison) - Kinematic test of thrust rotation for the Lewis—Hoadley—Eldorado Plate near Wolf Creek

1995

• Casey Kipf, Montana State University (TRGS) - Thrust faulting in the Beaverhead Mountains:--is the basement fundamentally or incidentally involved?