The Desert Research Institute has awarded the 1999 Jonathan O. Davis Scholarship in Quaternary Sciences to Sheryl Fontaine, a Ph.D. candidate in Geology and Neotectonics at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). She received the award for her dissertation research on the Walker Lane Belt, an important seismic zone in western Nevada.
In addition, UNR master's student Leah Bonstead received a stipend for her field research on an archaeological site in the Harney Basin of east-central Oregon. The family, colleagues, and friends of Jonathan O. Davis, a prominent DRI geologist and geoarchaeologist who died in 1990, established an endowment to provides a $2,000 annual national scholarship plus a stipend for University of Nevada, Reno students.
The national scholarship, administered by DRI, is open to graduate students enrolled in a graduate program at any U.S. university. Applicants must be pursuing research with a geologic component or that demonstrates a strong reliance on geological techniques.