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Recent Student Awards - UTIG

Student Research and Posters

Recent Awards to Students

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Contreras, David David Contreras won First Place in the Student Poster Session at the 2008 AAPG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Apr. 21-23, 2008. David's presentation was on "Structural and stratigraphic correlations across the Burro Negro fault zone, northeastern margin of the Maracaibo supergiant basin."

AAPG

Mann
Carter, Sasha Sasha Carter has been selected to receive an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation, "Ice flow history, basal melt, and hydraulic connections in the Dome C Lake District headwaters over the last glacial cycle inferred from hyrdopotential, internal layers, and basal reflectivity in airborne radar sounding data," at the 2007 AGU Fall Meeting (Cryosphere Section) in San Francisco.

AGU

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Vence, Eleine Eleine was selected to be one of 19 participants in the 2007 AAPG Student Poster Awards Competition, sponsored by Shell and the AAPG Student Chapters Committee. Her poster was titled "Along-Strike Continuity of Caribbean Tectonic Terranes and Their Controls on Source and Reservoir Rocks Offshore Colombia and Venezuela"

AAPG

Mann
Castellanos, Hugo A. Third Place for Best Student Poster Award for his presentation on "Sequence Stratigraphy and Structure of the Miocene Guantao and Pliocene Minghuazhen Formations, Zhao Dong Field, Bohai Bay, Eastern China" AAPG Annual Convention
Houston, Texas
April 9-12, 2006
Mann
Smith, Diana Dean's Honored Graduate for Geological Sciences UT Graduation Ceremonies
Austin, TX
May, 2005
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Smith, Diana El Paso Corporation Award for Excellence in Geology Research for her presentation on "Radar Sounding Studies of Cracks at the Base of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica" UT Science Undergraduate Research Group (SURGe)
Austin, TX
May, 2005
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Kumar, Dhananjay Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation on "Estimation of Gas-hydrate Saturation at the Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon" AGU Fall Meeting
San Francisco, CA
December, 2004
Sen, Stoffa
Moscardelli, Lorena Outstanding Student Paper Award for her presentation on "Debris flow architecture and processes in offshore Trinidad: Implications for basin fill in tectonically active margins" AGU Fall Meeting
San Francisco, CA
December, 2004
Mann
Nordfjord, Sylvia Honorable Mention for a presentation of her work AAPG/SEG Student Exposition
Houston, TX
Oct. 17-18, 2004
Austin, Goff, Galloway
Sullivan, Sean Distribution, nature, and origin of mobile mud features offshore Trinidad Earth and Space Awards 2004 Mann
Nordfjord, Sylvia Geomorphologic Comparisons Of Shallowly Buried, Dendritic Drainage Systems On The Outer New Jersey Shelf With Modern Fluvial and Estuarine Analogs MARGINS First Annual Prize for Outstanding Student Presentation, AGU, December 2003 Austin, Goff, Galloway
Jaimes-Carvajal, Martha Best Student Poster Award for her work on "Tectonic origin of the Cariaco basin: Pull-apart, extinct pull-apart, or fault-normal extension?" SEPM at AAPG Annual Meeting, 2003 Mann
Lu, H. Global Sea-Level Versus Local Control of Middle-Miocene to Recent Sequences on a Current-Swept Divergent Margin: Offshore Canterbury Basin, New Zealand "Outstanding Student Paper Award", AGU Fall Meeting, 2002 Fulthorpe, Mann, Galloway

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