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