Wai Allen (Navajo)
Doctoral Student
Field of Study
Geology
Hometown
Pinon, Arizona
Education
2016 - M.S., Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2011 - B.S., Geology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Research Focus
Sedimentary Record of Neogene Tectonics in Southern Alaska
Major Advisor
Dr. Kenneth D. Ridgway; Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Selected Presentations
Allen, Wai K., Kenneth D. Ridgway, Trevor S. Waldien, Sarah Roeske, and Jeff A. Benowitz, May 2015, Neogene transpressional basin development along the central Denali fault system: Jarvis Creek and McCallum Basins, Alaska (Poster), Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting.
Dunn, Catherine A., Eva Enkelmann, Kenneth D. Ridgway, and Wai K. Allen, May 2015, Does climate change affect exhumation? Identifying the link between tectonics, climate, and offshore sediment deposition in southeastern Alaska (Oral), Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting.
Ridgway, Kenneth D., Jeffery, M. Trop, Ronald B. Cole, Brian A. Hampton, James L. Kalbas, Patrick Brennan, Emily S. Finzel, Jeff Benowitz, and Wai K. Allen, May 2015, Sedimentary record of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic development of southern Alaska: Exploring some of Dwight Bradly’s geologic “Black Holes” (oral), Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting.
Terhune, Patrick, Jeff Benowitz, Trevor S. Waldien, Wai K. Allen, Kailyn N. Davis, Kenneth D. Ridgway, Sarah M. Roeske, Paul G. Fitzgerald, Matthew E. Brueseke, and Paul B. O’Sullivan, May 2015, Geochronologic framework for the Cenozoic history of the southern Alaska range fold and thrust belt (poster), Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting.
Waldien, Trevor S., Sarah M. Roeske, Jeff Benowitz, Wai K. Allen, Kenneth D. Ridgway, and Paul B. O’Sullivan, May 2015, Pliocene-Recent shortening on the McCallum Creek fault: Evidence for an incipient thrust system in the eastern Alaska Range (Poster), Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting.
Allen, Wai K., Kenneth D. Ridgway, Jeff A. Benowitz, Trevor S. Waldien, Sarah Roeske, October 2014, Neogene transpressional basin development along the Denali Fault System in the Eastern Alaska Range: The stratigraphy of the McCallum Basin and implications for displacement along the Denali Fault System (Poster), Geological Society of America National Meeting.
Waldien, Trevor S., Sarah Roeske, Wai K. Allen, Kenneth D. Ridgway, Jeff A. Benowitz, October 2014, Oblique thrust faulting and foreland basin deformation in a strike-slip fault system, Eastern Alaska Range, Alaska (Poster), Geological Society of America National Meeting.
Professional Organizations
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
American Geophysical Union (AGU),
Women In Science Program - Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Dept.
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Graduate Student Association, Purdue Chapter
Geological Society of America (GSA)
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/ Hispanics and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS)
Honors, Grants, Awards and Activities:
2013 - Present, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship Recipient
2015 - 2015, ExxonMobil Geoscience Recruit Field Course
2014 - 2015, Chevron Science Scholarship
2014 - 2015, Cedric J. Newby Award
2014 - 2015, Gardner Scholarship
2014 - 2015, Donald W. Levandowski Scholarship
2014 - 2015, Cedric Newby Award Purdue University
2014 - 2015, Alaska Geological Survey Scholarship
2014 - 2015, Geological Society of America Research Grant
2013 - 2014, Knox Fellowship Recipient
2013 - 2014, Chesapeake Energy Corporation Scholarship