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Student Deadlines

Fall Semester 2008 Ewing/Worzel Fellowship and Gale White Fellowship application - application deadline is May 27 at 5:00 p.m. Submit completed applications to Jamie Austin or Nancy Hard.

Student training is an important component of the research activities of the Institute. The Institute itself does not award degrees; rather the Institute maintains close relationships with the Department of Geological Sciences and the Marine Science Department through cooperative programs and joint faculty appointments. Many graduate and undergraduate students from UT and other universities and high school students take advantage of the opportunity to work with the staff and facilities of the Institute for Geophysics on projects related to funded research programs. Office space and computational resources are made available to students in the Institute laboratory. There are at present 40 students associated with the Institute.

Further information (including info on fellowships, research assistantships, jobs), is available regarding opportunities for prospective students.

Spring 2008

The University of Texas at Austin graduate students
working at the Institute for Geophysics.

Student	Title/Topic	Expected Completion	Degree	UTIG Supervisor	Committee Supervisor	Source of Support
Aljadher, Ali				Stoffa	Stoffa
AlMuhaidib, Abdulaziz	Pre-Stack Inversion for Porosity Estimation from Seismic Data in a Central Arabian Oil Field	Spring 08	MS	Sen	Sen
Bashkardin, Vladimir			PhD	Stoffa
Burnett, William			MS	Stoffa
Carrales, Adrian	Analyzing seismic data from Puerto Rico	Summer 08	MA	Pulliam
Carter, Sasha	Using Geophysical Techniques to locate isolated Subsurface Water Systems in East Antarctica	Fall 07	PhD	Blankenship/ Jackson	Sharp	DGS TA
Chu, Chunlei	Application of Variable Grid Finite Difference to Seismic Imaging and Modeling	Spring 10	PhD	Stoffa	Stoffa
Contreras, David	Integration of subsurface, potential fields and outcrop data to define the northern limits of oil and gas fields in the northern Maracaibo basin, Venezuela	Spring 08	MS	Mann	Mann	Industry support
Danque, Hunter	Definition of volcanic complexes under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from aerogeophysical data	Fall 07	MS	Blankenship	Blankenship
De Basabe, Jonas	Numerical simulations of the elastic wave equation	Spring 09	PhD	Sen	Sen/ Wheeler	Outside fellowship
Diehl, Theresa	Geophysical Investigation of the Lithosphere Beneath West Antarctica	Spring 08	PhD	Blankenship	Blankenship
Dunn, Elizabeth			MS	Quinn
Elmore, Ryan	Gulf of Alaska		MS	Gulick/ Catania	Gulick/Mohrig	Ewing-Worzel Fellowship
Greenbaum, Jamin	Grounding line change in the Ross Sea, Antarctica	Spring 2012	PhD	Catania	Blankenship
Hereid, Kelly		Spring 2012	PhD	Quinn	Quinn	Ewing-Worzel Fellowship
Hong, Tiancong	Uncertainties in Reservoir Characterization Using Seismic Data	Fall 08	PhD	Sen/ Jackson	Sen	GRA on UTIG grant
Hu, Chaoshun	OBS and MCS data acquisition, processing and interpretation for TAIGER project	Spring 09	PhD	McIntosh/ Stoffa/	Stoffa	GRA on UTIG grant
Leuro, Erick	Spatial Distribution of snow accumulation rates in West Antarctica	Fall 07	PhD	Blankenship/ Holt	Wilson	JSG GRA
Lowe, Lindsay	Structural evolution and geodynamic processes in the Gulf of Alaska: Implications for tectonic-climatic interactions	Spring 2010	PhD	Gulick	Gulick/ Mann
Lu, Shaoping				Jackson	Jackson
Martin, Kylara	Subduction zones		PhD	Gulick	Gulick
Miah, Khalid				Sen		MSE TA
Patel, Paresh	Subduction modeling and flat subduction		PhD	Grand	Grand
Richards, Travis			MS	Sen
Roy, Ankur			PhD	Pulliam
Sanchez, Carla	Neogene Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Systems of the Australian Northwest Shelf		PhD	Fulthorpe/Austin
Sawyer, Derek	Shear-induced consolidation and pore pressure in submarine landslides	Spring 10	PhD	Flemings	Flemings	GRA / Ewing-Worzel Fellowship (summer)
Schneider, Julia	Consolidation characteristics and pore fluid pressure of mudrocks in the Gulf of Mexico	Spring 2011	PhD	Flemings	Flemings	GRA / Ewing-Worzel Fellowship (summer)
Shahin, Alireza	Seismically Detecting and Discriminating Fluid Flow Over Reservoir Production Time	Fall 2011	PhD	Stoffa	Tatham
Sil, Samik			PhD	Sen		DGS TA
Smith, Daniel	Regularization and datuming using least squares and conjujate gradients	Summer 08	MS	Sen
Sood, Sanjay	Modeling of seismic attenuation in the Costa Rica volcanic arc: Thermal state of the subduction zone	Spring 08	PhD	Sen	Sen	DGS TA
Stackhouse, Stanley	Sedimentology of Channel Infill Along the Barnegat Corridor, Offshore New Jersey	Spring 09	MS	Goff	Fisher/ Goff	Ewing-Worzel Fellowship
Stephens, Jason	Effects of Eustatic and Tectonic Forcing on the Development of Forearc Basin Sequence Stratigraphy	Spring 09	PhD	McIntosh/ Fulthorpe	Tatham	GRA on UTIG grant
Strong, Hilary	Soil Mechanics and Slope Stability of the Ursa Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico		MS	Flemings		Ewing-Worzel Fellowship
Vence, Eleine	Subsurface structure, stratigraphy, and regional tectonic controls of the Guajira margin of northern Colombia	Spring 08	MS	Mann	Mann	ConocoPhillips Fellowship

The University of Texas at Austin undergraduate students
working as research assistants at the Institute for Geophysics.

Student	Year	Degree	Department	UTIG Project	UTIG Supervisor
Carver, Kevin	Junior	BS	Geological Sciences		Holt
Choudhary, Prateek	Senior	Electrical Engineering/Physics	Engineering		Holt
Hartwig, Andrew	Junior	BS	Geology	GBDS	Ganey-Curry
King, Will	Senior	BS	Geological Sciences	CBTH	Mann
Srivastava, Sanchi	Sophomore		College of Natural Sciences	CBTH	Mann
Storms, Jeff	Sophomore	BS	Radio-Television-Film Ld	CBTH	Mann

Undergraduate Administrative Assistants

Student	Year	Department	UTIG Supervisor/Coordinator
Galvez, Robert	Senior	School of Engineering	Yarbro
Pearce, Trey	Senior	JSG	Yarbro
Wheeler, Lance	Senior	College of Liberal Arts	Yarbro

Visiting Students

Student	University	Degree	Project	UTIG Supervisor
Brumley, Kelley				Lawver
Godfrey, Daria	Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, Texas			Ellins
Ma Jitao	China University of Petroleum, Beijing	PhD	Surface-related Multiple Elimination	Mrinal
Pearson, Zulmachristina	Univ. of Alaska	MS	Chicxulub Crater	Gulick