Student Awards

Student Awards

Student Awards

2012

Student Description Award presented by/at UTIG
Supervisor(s)
Schneider, Julia Julia Schneider won the "Best Paper Award" at the Jackson School of Geosciences for her paper, "Insights into pore-scale controls on mudstone permeability through resedimentation experiments' (Schneider, J., P. B. Flemings, R. J. Day-Stirrat, and J. T. Germaine, 39, 1011-1014, 2011, doi:10.1130/G32475.1). DGS Flemings
Hereid, Kelly Kelly Hereid won the Best Tech Session PhD Speaker award (Spring 2012) for her presentation on "El Niño - Southern Oscillation Variability During the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly Reconstructed From Coral Geochemistry." Dept. of Geol. Sciences, UT Austin Quinn
Smith, Andrew Andrew Smith won Best M.S. Tech Session Speaker (Spring 2012) for his presentation on "Multiphase heat and salt transport at deepwater Gulf of Mexico vents." Dept. of Geol. Sciences, UT Austin Flemings
Smith, Andrew Andrew Smith was awarded a J. William Fulbright Graduate Fellowship at the University of Tromsø, Norway (2012-2013) U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Flemings
Smith, Andrew Andrew Smith was awarded the Best Student Presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Natural Gas Hydrate Systems 2012 for his presentation on "Multiphase heat and salt transport at a deepwater gulf of mexico vent." Gordon Research Conference Flemings
Smith, Isaac Isaac Smith won the Stephen E. Dwornik Planetary Geoscience Student Paper Award (Graduate Poster) at the 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. His presentation was entitled, "The Northern Spiral Troughs of Mars as Cyclic Steps: A Theoretical Framework for Calculating Average Migration and Accumulation Rates." Geological Society of America Holt
Brothers, Charles Charles Brothers won first place for "Late-Career PhD Best Poster Award" at the 1st Annual Research Symposium Awards, Jackson School of Geosciences, February 2012. His poster was titled, "New constraints on the formation of Abalos Mensa, Planum Boreum Mars from radar stratigraphy and high-resolution imagery" JSG Holt
Fitch, Justin Justin Fitch won second place for "Late-Career M.S. Best Poster Award" at the 1st Annual Research Symposium Awards, Jackson School of Geosciences, February 2012. His poster was titled, "Retroarc foreland basin evolution during Paleogene shortening, northern Altiplano plateau, southern Peru" JSG Horton
Kopriva, Bryant Bryant Kopriva won first place for "Late-Career M.S. Best Poster Award" at the 1st Annual Research Symposium Awards, Jackson School of Geosciences, February 2012. His poster was titled, "Stratigraphic Response of Variable Mini-Basin Subsidence Patterns Due to Autogenic Effects" JSG Kim
LeVoir, Maureen Maureen LeVoir won second place for "Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award" at the 1st Annual Research Symposium Awards, Jackson School of Geosciences, February 2012. Her poster was titled, "Preliminary analysis of the Baranof Fan system, Gulf of Alaska, based on 2D seismic reflection and multibeam bathymetry data (MG06)" JSG Gulick

2011

Student Description Award presented by/at UTIG
Supervisor(s)
Schneider, Julia Julia Schneider won the "Best Speaker Award" (PhD) at the Jackson School of Geosciences for Fall 2011. JSG Flemings
Wagman, Benjamin Benjamin Wagman won the "Best Speaker Award" (MS) at the Jackson School of Geosciences for Fall 2011. JSG Catania
Smith, Andrew Andrew Smith won "Outstanding Student Paper Award" from the Ocean Sciences Section of AGU for the 2011 Fall Meeting. Andrew's presentation was entitled, "Observations and Models of Heat and Salt Generation at a Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Vent." AGU Flemings
Fitz, Guy Guy Fitz won "Outstanding Student Paper Award" from the Tectonophysics Section of AGU for the 2011 Fall Meeting. Guy's presentation was entitled, "Regional tectonic context, timing, and intrusion mechanism of gneiss domes, eastern Papua New Guinea, from offshore seismic reflection and well data." AGU Mann
Campos, Henry Henry Campos won first place in the 2011 AAPG Student Research Poster Session. Henry's presentation was on "Flexurally Driven Subsidence History of the Llanos Foreland Basin of Colombia: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration" AAPG Mann
Bernal-Olaya, Rocio Rocio Bernal-Olaya won third place in the 2011 AAPG Student Research Poster Session. Rocio's presentation was on "Lower Magdalena Basin, Colombia: A Forearc Basin Formed Above a Zone of Active, Shallow Subduction" AAPG Mann
Yao You Yao You received a 'Best Poster' award for his presentation "Coupling of the evolution of pore pressure and the retrogressive slope failure during breaching " at the recent SIAM Conference on Mathematics & Computational Issues in the Geosciences in Long Beach, CA, March 2011. AGU Flemings

2010

Student Description Award presented by/at UTIG
Supervisor(s)
Hereid, Kelly Kelly Hereid received an "Outstanding Student Paper Award" from the Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section of AGU for the 2010 Fall meeting in December. Kelly's presentation was on "ENSO Variability during the Little Ice Age from the Perspective of a Long Coral Record from the Western Pacific Warm Pool." AGU Quinn
Schneider, Julia Julia Schneider received an "Outstanding Student Paper Award" from the Mineral and Rock Physics Section of AGU for the 2010 Fall meeting in December. Julia's presentation was on "Experimentally derived model to predict permeability behavior of mudstones." AGU Flemings
Burnett, William William Burnett won the "Best Speaker Award" (PhD) at the Jackson School of Geosciences for Fall 2010. Jackson School of Geosciences Stoffa
Gorman, Meaghan Meaghan Gorman won the "Best Speaker Award" (MS) at the Jackson School of Geosciences for Fall 2010. Jackson School of Geosciences Quinn
Shahin, Alireza Alireza Shahin won the "SEG's Best Student Poster Paper Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting." SEG Sen
Comeaux, Rebecca Rebecca Comeaux won the "Best Speaker Award" at the Jackson School of Geosciences MS tech session presentations on April 24, 2010. Jackson School of Geosciences Allison
Alvarez, Tricia Tricia Alvarez won third place in the student poster session at the 2010 AAPG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 11-14. Tricia's presentation was on "Tectonic Habitat of Hydrocarbons in the Deepand Ultra-Deepwater Frontier Areas of Trinidad and Tobago" AAPG Mann

2009

Student Description Award presented by/at UTIG
Supervisor(s)
Reece, Bobby Bobby Reece received a 2009 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award for his poster in the Tectonophysics section: "Intraplate shearing and basin deformation in the Pacific Plate as a result of the Yakutat Block collision with North America." AGU Gulick
Smith, Isaac Isaac Smith received a 2009 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award for his poster in the Planetary Sciences section: "New Insights into the Spiral Troughs of the Northern Polar Layered Deposits, Mars from SHARAD Observations." AGU Holt
Strong, Hilary Hilary Strong received third place for the Best Student Poster Presentation Award at the AAPG Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, June 7-10, 2009. Her presentation was entitled, "Consolidation Characteristics of Mass Transport Deposits in Ursa Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico." AAPG Flemings
Alvarez, Tricia Tricia Alvarez was awarded the 2009 Ike Crumbly Minorities in Energy Named Grant" by AAPG for her proposal, "Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Columbus Basin shelf-to-basin-floor system: A study of a clastic basin system in an active plate margin setting." AAPG Mann