Barringer Family Fund Recipients
2026 Recipients
Amanda Alexander
University of Colorado, Boulder
Project: Revisiting Alamo: using shocked minerals to characterize the impact origin of the Alamo Event
Ari J. Guest
University of Portsmouth, England
Project: A Phase Heritage and Modelling Approach for Resolving the Crystallisation Mechanisms of Impact Melt Sheets
Jayden Squire
Adelaide University, Australia
Project: Novel in-situ Rb-Sr dating and impactor identification of the Charlevoix impact structure, Canada
Natasha Tagle
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Project: Ephemeral Saline Lakes as Analogs for Martian Crater Lakes: Geochemical and
Sedimentary Insights from Shoemaker Crater, Western Australia
Ananya Srivastava
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Project: Terrestrial Analog Investigations and Spectral Characterisation of the Ries Impact
Structure, Germany, in Preparation for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover Mission to
Oxia Planum, Mars