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Marina Suarez holds the skull of a Geminiraptor suarezarum, a new species of dinosaur that was named after her in 2011 after she discovered it at a site in Utah. Photo by Kathryn Boyd-Batstone

Marina Suarez holds the skull of a Geminiraptor suarezarum, a new species of dinosaur that was named after her in 2011 after she discovered it at a site in Utah. Photo by Kathryn Boyd-Batstone

Marina Suarez, assistant professor of geology at The University of Texas at San Antonio, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to support her top-tier research in paleoclimatology. Photo by Kathryn Boyd-Batstone