Two students from the Jackson School of Geosciences will receive Outstanding Student Paper Awards for their presentations at the 2004 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting.

The Seismology Section of AGU selected Dhananjay Kumar to receive the award for his presentation on "Estimation of Gas-hydrate Saturation at the Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon." Dhananjay's PhD dissertation is on the analysis of multi-component seismic data in anisotropic media. He is working with UTIG's Mrinal Sen and Paul Stoffa. Dhananjay will graduate in Spring, 2005.

The Hydrology Section of AGU selected Lorena Moscardelli to receive the award for her presentation on "Debris flow architecture and processes in offshore Trinidad: Implications for basin fill in tectonically active margins." Lorena is a PhD candidate working with Lesli Wood (Bureau of Economic Geology) and Paul Mann (UTIG) on the DM2 Trinidad industry study. Lorena's dissertation research is on the Quaternary evolution of the northeastern corner of South America.