GSN Membership Meeting “Student Poster Night” – Friday, April 17, 2026

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Contact: gsn@gsnv.org

GSN MEMBERSHIP MEETING—APRIL 17, 2026

 STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION NIGHT! 

Deadline to enter has passed. Dinner RSVP information is below:

(Poster Presenters are listed at the bottom of this page.)

 TIME: Drinks & Posters @ 6 pm, Dinner @ 6:30 pm

Awards Ceremony @ 7:30 pm

WHERE: ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT, 3800 S. Virginia St., Reno, NV, Grand Ballrooms 6-7

Sponsor:  Nexus Environmental Consultants

DINNER COST:  $60 per person (GSN Student Members eat free as long as you RSVP. No-shows will be charged, however.)

ONLINE RESERVATIONS CAN BE MADE BELOW

PLEASE RSVP/REGISTER NO LATER THAN MONDAY, APRIL 13TH!

(If you click on the SUBMIT button, you are placed on the guest list at that moment. Please contact the GSN Office (gsn@gsnv.org) to cancel if you can’t make it! Cancellations may be billed at the full amount if we can’t sell your dinner–This includes students!)

POSTER PRESENTERS/TITLES:

Travis Fisher, UNR Graduate Student

“Geology of the Taylor Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada”

Alyssa Lindsay, UNR Graduate Student

“Overprinting Mineralizing Events At Ruby Hill, Eureka, NV; Implications For Exploration And Metallogenesis”

Joseph Rosal, UNR Graduate Student

“Characterization of Mine Waste in Nevada: Converting Waste Into Wealth”

Amber Prevallet, UNR Graduate Student

“Characterization of Igneous Intrusions and Mineralization at the REN Deposit, Northern Carlin Trend, Nevada, USA”

Priyasha Negi, UNR Graduate Student

“Enhanced Petrogenic Organic Carbon Oxidation in Shales on Ridges Compared to Valleys”

Ian Adams, UNR Graduate Student

“Under the Andes: MT Applications at Cordón Caulle”

Cutter Morebeck, UNR Graduate Student

“Preliminary Mapping of Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Volcanic Rocks in Southern Clayton Valley and Implications for the Lithium Enrichment”

Jose Carbajal Ronces, UNR Graduate Student

“Critical Metals in Pyrite as an Exploration Vectoring Tool in Porphyry Copper Deposits: A Global Study”

Terry Lee, UNR Graduate Student

“1:24,000-Scale Geologic Map of the Western Half of the Franklin Lake NW 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range Metamorphic Core Complex, NE Nevada”

Nada Mareechi Jacinto, UNR Graduate Student

“Integrated Study of a Potential Hidden Geothermal System in Northeastern Reese River Valley (Argenta Rise), North-Central Nevada”

Brock Moody, UNR Graduate Student

“The State of Lithium Resources in 2026: A Deposit-Type Analysis for Supply Potential”

Brady Giles, CSU-Chico Undergraduate Student

“Quantifying Emplacement Rates of AVF Lava Flows Using Groundmass Textures, Cooling Experiments, and Flow Models”

Jakob Scheel, UNR Graduate Student

“High-Performance Numerical Modeling of Crystal Erosion and Entrainment in Magmatic Systems”

Henry Marine, CSU-Chico Graduate Student

“What is the petrogenesis of the Walker Mine deposit in the Plumas Copper Belt?”

Desiree Guzman, UNR Graduate Student

“Differentiation vs. Source: Using Trace Elements to Disentangle Deep Crustal and Slab-Derived Garnet Signatures”

Cade Beadell, UNR Undergraduate Student

“Imaging a shallow magmatic intrusion and its hydrothermal system using electrical resistivity tomography at Cordón Caulle, Chile”

Andrea Buian, UNR Graduate Student

“The influx of Na–F–rich fluids can shift silicic magma compositions from peraluminous (molar [Na₂O + K₂O]/Al₂O₃ < 1) to peralkaline (molar [Na₂O + K₂O]/Al₂O₃ > 1)”

Lindsey Frenia, UNR Graduate Student

“Metamorphic core complexes (MCCs) in the North American Cordillera exhume ductile shear zones that record polyphase deformation from Mesozoic contraction to Cenozoic extension”

Mauricio Martinez-Contreras, CSU-Chico Graduate Student

“The Lights Creek Stock (LCS) is a granitoid pluton located in the Northern Sierra Nevada, CA.”

Aadit Swami, UNR Graduate Student

“Ancient Solutions to Modern Water Scarcity: Hydrogeologic Evidence from the Thar Desert”

Sarnav Bakshi, UNR Graduate Student

“Quantifying the Contribution of Orthogneisses to Flare-up Magmatism in a Deforming Arc: North Cascades Arc, Washington”

Ryan Parkyn, UNR Graduate Student

“Thermal and Structural Architecture of the Mesozoic Auld Lang Syne Back-arc basin: Mapping, Field Observations, and Thermometry from the Luning-fencemaker Fold Thrust Belt in Northwest Nevada”