Sheryl Fontaine, a Ph.D. candidate in geology and neotectonics at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), has been awarded the 1999 Jonathan O. Davis Scholarship in Quaternary Sciences from the Desert Research Institute. Fontaine won the scholarship for her dissertation research "Quaternary Neotectonics of the Central Walker Lane Belt, Western Great Basin."
In addition, UNR graduate student Leah Bonstead received a stipend to support her field research 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 the endowment which provides a $2,000 annual national scholarship, plus a stipend for a UNR student.
The national scholarship is administered by DRI's Quaternary Sciences Center and is open to graduate students in any U.S. university pursuing research with a geologic component or that demonstrates a strong reliance on geological techniques.