Winners of the 4th Annual Jackson School Research Symposium

February 18, 2015

On Feb. 7, 2015, the Graduate Student Executive Committee and ConocoPhillips hosted the 4th Annual Jackson School Research Symposium.

More than 130 students presented research at this year’s event, which is patterned after an AGU-style poster competition. Faculty and research scientists served as judges.

This year’s symposium had an impressive collection of research projects.

The winners are:

Late-Career PhD Best Poster Award

1^st Place ($1,000): Stephanie Wafforn, Magmatism and Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in the Ertsberg-Grasberg Mining District, Papua, Indonesia: Insights from Zircon U/Pb and Trace Element Analysis

2^nd Place ($500): Rattanaporn Fong-Ngern, Clinoform Growth in a Miocene, Para-Tethyan Deep Lake Basin: Thin Topsets, Irregular Foresets, and Thick Bottomsets

Honorable Mention: Nick Perez, Punctuated upper-crustal shortening, exhumation, and basin subsidence during flat-slab subduction in southern Peru

Late-Career Masters Best Poster Award

1^st Place ($1,000): Woong Mo Koo, Coupling of Basin-Floor Fan Behavior With Shelf-Margin Processes: Maastrichtian Washakie Basin, Wyoming

2^nd Place ($500): Aleksandr Montelli, Late Quaternary history of Bering Glacier dynamics and sedimentation

Honorable Mention: Reed Roush, Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of a High-Resolution XRF-Dataset from the Cline Shale, Midland Basin, TX

Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award

1^st Place ($800): Pam Speciale, Evaluating the consistency of experimental paleopiezometers using naturally deformed rocks

2^nd Place ($400): Tim Prather, A Combined Stratigraphic, Architectural, and Ichnologic Analysis of the Loyd Sandstone (Late Cretaceous) Near Rangely, Colorado

Honorable Mention: Eric Petersen, An ice flow modeling approach to understanding regional and aspect-dependent differences between debris-covered glacier lobes in Deuteronilus and Protonilus Mensae, Mars.

Undergraduate Best Poster Award

1^st Place ($600): Emilie Gentry, Pseudotachylites in the footwall of the Whipple detachment: implications of seismicity along low angle normal faults

2^nd Place ($300): Andrew McPeak, Seamount Arrival into the Franciscan Subduction Complex at 100 + 2 Ma: Marin Headlands, San Francisco Bay, CA

Honorable Mention: Laura Dafov, Provenance of Adriatic turbidites (Alps-Apennines system)

Best Represented Research Group

1^st Place ($300): Sergey Fomel’s research group

2^nd Place ($200): Jack Holt’s research group