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 |