Awards

Grants / Awards Achieved by Current or Former Carbonshed Lab Members

2023
Kayla Emerson – Phi Beta Kappa
Kayla Emerson – Highest Honors
Shreeya Patel – Inducted Morehead-Cain Scholar

2022
Kriddie Whitmore – Geological Society of America, Student Research Grant
Kriddie Whitmore – Outstanding Mention for “Exceptional Merit in Conception and Presentation”, Geological Society of America (only 10 recipients among all applicants)
Kriddie Whitmore – Society of Wetland Scientists, Student Research Grant
Diego Riveros-Iregui – U.S. Fulbright Scholar, United States Department of State
Diego Riveros-Iregui – Faculty Award for Global Excellence, UNC-Chapel Hill

2021
Katie McMahon – National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship
Katie McMahon – Peter J. Robinson Award for Best Paper in Environmental Geography
Katie McMahon – Highest Honors
Elizabeth Farquhar – Highest Honors
Tessa Davis – Excellence in Environmental Research Award, E3P
Natalie Gauger – Chancellor’s Award – The James O. Cansler Service Award
Natalie Gauger – Honors
Kriddie Whitmore – Community Engagement Fellowship, Center for Public Service
Kriddie Whitmore – Dean’s Graduate Fellow

2020
Chloe Schneider – Peter J. Robinson Award for Best Paper in Environmental Geography
Megan Raisle – McNally Award for Excellence in Geography
Megan Raisle – Phi Beta Kappa
Tessa Davis – Phi Beta Kappa
Emily Browning – Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Spain)
Diego Riveros-Iregui – Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professorship (Awarded for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching)

2019
Tianzhen Nie – Buckley Public Service Award
William Hamilton – Outstanding Environmental Research Award
William Hamilton – Highest Honors for Undergraduate Research Thesis
Meredith Emery – Beinecke Scholarship
Meredith Emery – John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Award
Diego Riveros-Iregui – NSF CAREER Award
Diego Riveros-Iregui – J. Carlyle Sitterson Award for Excellence in Teaching First-Year Students

2018
Sarah Schmitt – Kenan Graduate Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences
Sarah Schmitt – Royster Society of Fellows, Thomas S. and Helen Borda Royster and Snowden and Elspeth Merck Henry Dissertation Fellowship
Haley Moser – J. Doug Eyre Award for Outstanding Leadership in Geography
Haley Moser – Peter J. Robinson Award for Best Research Paper in Environmental Geography
William Hamilton – Sarah Steele Danhoff Undergraduate Research Award
Meredith Emery – Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Meredith Emery – Featured for her work on “Emotional Environment” . Link to story here: https://youtu.be/lR1OTBghto0. Meredith’s work has been broadly shared by UNC, including UNC Research, UNC Development, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

2017
Angélica Gómez – Faculty For the Future Fellowship

2016
Sarah Schmitt  – Critical Zone Observatory SAVI Program Grant
Angélica Gómez – Fulbright Fellowship (Stipend and tuition)

2015
Madelyn Percy – NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (3 years)
Madelyn Percy – Geological Society of America, Student Research Grant
Madelyn Percy – Hydrogeology Division Award, Geological Society of America
Madelyn Percy – Critical Zone Observatory SAVI Program Grant
Sarah Schmitt – National Geographic Young Explorer
Sarah Schmitt – CUAHSI Pathfinder Fellowship
Sarah Schmitt – Geological Society of America, Student Research Grant
Sarah Schmitt – Outstanding Mention for “Exceptional Merit in Conception and Presentation”, Geological Society of America (1 of 10 recipients among all applicants)
Sarah Schmitt – NCAR ASP Graduate Student Visiting Award
Catherine Schumak – Tom and Elizabeth Long Excellence Research Award

2014
Sarah Schmitt – NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (3 years)