Awards 2014-2015
November 2, 2015
Common Abbreviations:
AAPG American Assoc. of Petroleum Geologists
AIPG Amer. Institute of Prof. Geologists
AGS Austin Geological Society
AGU American Geophysical Union
BEG Bureau of Economic Geology
DGS Dept. of Geological Sciences
GCAGS Gulf Coast Assoc. Geological Soc.
GSA Geological Society of America
SEG Soc. of Exploration Geophysicists
SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
UTIG Institute for Geophysics
Faculty and Researchers
BILL AMBROSE
Certificate of Merit, AAPG Division of Environmental Geosciences
JAIME BARNES
Faculty Annual Evaluation Award, Assistant Professor, DGS
WHITNEY BEHR
Knebel Teaching Award, Graduate
BAYANI CARDENAS
Faculty Annual Evaluation Award, Associate Professor, DGS
ELIZABETH CATLOS
Knebel Teaching Award, Intro Course
GAIL CHRISTESON
I. Levorsen Award
SHIRLEY DUTTON
Doris Malkin Curtis Medal, GCAGS
KATHERINE ELLINS
Fulbright award
WILLIAM FISHER
Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Kansas, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
William L. Fisher Endowed Chair in Geological Sciences establish and endowed by Jackson School of Geosciences through support of friends, University of Texas at Austin
Doctorate of Sciences, Honoris Causa, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Chairman’s Award, AAPG Foundation
Elected Trustee Emeritus, American Geosciences Institute
PETER FLEMINGS
Tinker Family BEG Publication Award
CRAIG FULTHORPE
Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award, 2nd Place, GCAGS
WILLIAM GALLOWAY
Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award, 2nd Place, GCAGS
PATRICIA GANEY-CURRY
Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award, 2nd Place, GCAGS
MICHAEL HUDEC
Tinker Family BEG Publication Award
AKAND ISLAM
BEG Publication Award, Most First-Author Publications in 2014
CHARLES KERANS
Francis J. Pettijohn Medal for Sedimentology, SEPM
WONSUCK KIM
Faculty Annual Evaluation Award, Assistant Professor
ROBERT LOUCKS
Journal President’s Award for Outstanding Paper, GCAGS
JERRY LUCIA
Journal President’s Award for Outstanding Paper, GCAGS
KITTY MILLIKEN
Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award, AAPG
Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award, AAPG
DAVID MOHRIG
Knebel Teaching Award, Undergraduate
SHARON MOSHER
Invaluable Service to GeoScienceWorld Award, 10th year anniversary
JEAN-PHILIPPE NICOT
Certificate of Merit, AAPG Division of Environmental Geosciences
Fellow, GSA
MARIA NIKOLINAKOU
Tinker Family BEG Publication Award
IAN NORTON
I. Levorsen Award, GCAGS
JASON SANFORD
I. Levorsen Award, GCAGS
BRIDGET R. SCANLON
2014 AGU Fellow
MRINAL SEN
Honorary Membership, SEG
JOHN SNEDDEN
Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award, 2nd Place, GCAGS
I. Levorsen Award, GCAGS
DANIEL STOCKLI
Faculty Annual Evaluation Award,Full Professor, DGS
SCOTT TINKER
AAPG Honorary Member Award
TIMOTHY WHITEAKER
Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award, 2nd Place, GCAGS
TONGWEI ZHANG
Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award, AAPG
Students
LAUREN ANDREWS
Technical Sessions Best Speaker,Fall, Ph.D.
RACHEL BERNARD
Graduate Research Fellowship, NSF
REETAM BISWAS
Schlumberger Ocean Competition,3rd Place
EMILIE BOWMAN
Folk/McBride Petrography Contest,2nd Place Undergraduate
AMANDA CALLE
Marta Sutton Weeks-Wulf, AAPG
Off-Campus Research Award, JSG
TAYLOR CANADA
USGS/NAGT Internship
SEBASTIAN CARDONA
Ronald K. DeFord Field Scholarship
Norman H. Foster Memorial Grant, AAPG
Research Grant, Clay Minerals Society
Student Grant, 7th International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, New Zealand
TOMAS CAPALDI
Outstanding TA Award, DGS
MIGUEL CISNEROS
Folk/McBride Petrography Contest,2nd Place Graduate
DAVID CONWELL
Technical Sessions Best Speaker, Spring, MS
LAURA DAFOV
Undergraduate Best Poster Award, Honorable Mention, Jackson School Research Symposium
DEBANJAN DATTA
Schlumberger Ocean Competition,3rd Place
RATTANAPORN FONG-NGERN
2015 Outstanding Student Award, Houston Geological Society
Late-Career Ph.D. Best Poster Award, 2nd Place, Jackson School Research Symposium
TYLER FRITZ
USGS/NAGT Internship
EMILIE GENTRY
Undergraduate Best Poster Award, 1st Place, Jackson School Research Symposium
SARAH GEORGE
Graduate Research Fellowship, NSF
Garth W. Caylor Memorial Grant, AAPG
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA
Graduate Student Grant, SEPM
GAIL GUTOWSKI
Outstanding TA Award, DGS
ROMY HANNA
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Gordon A. McKay Award, Best Student Oral Presentation, the Meteoritical Society
SCARLETTE HSIA
Mineralogical Society of America Undergraduate Prize
MATT KAUFMAN
Graduate Groundwater Field Methods Award
LUCY TINGWEI KO
Best Poster Award, Houston Geological Society Mudrocks Applied Geoscience Conference
WOONG MO KOO
Late-Career Masters Best Poster Award, 1st Place, Jackson School Research Symposium
CHELSEA MACKAMAN-LOFLAND
Research Grant, GSA
Research Grant, AAPG
EDWARD MARSHALL
Folk/McBride Petrography Contest, 1st Place Graduate
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA
ANDREW MCPEAK
Estwing Hammer
Folk/McBride Petrography Contest, 2nd Place Undergraduate
Undergraduate Best Poster Award, 2nd Place, Jackson School Research Symposium
ALEKSANDR MONTELLI
Late-Career Masters Best Poster Award, 2nd Place, Jackson School Research Symposium
KATHERINE NEWMAN
Austin Geological Society Scholarship
MICHAEL O’CONNOR
Outstanding GSA Grant Award
DANIEL ORTEGA-ARROYO
Folk/McBride Petrography Contest, 1st Place Undergraduate
MICHAEL PATSON
GSEC Student Service
NICHOLAS PEREZ
JSG Best Graduate Paper
Late-Career Ph.D. Best Poster Award, Honorable Mention, Jackson School Research Symposium
ERIC PETERSEN
Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award, Honorable Mention, Jackson School Research Symposium
TIM PRATHER
Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award, 2nd Place, Jackson School Research Symposium
EDGARDO PUJOLS
Folk/McBride Petrography Contest, 2nd Place Graduate
NATALIE RAIA
Geoscience Leadership Organization for Women Award, JSG
QI REN
Schlumberger Ocean Competition, 3rd Place
MITCHELL RIEGLER
Austin Geological Society Scholarship
REED ROUSH
Late-Career Masters Best Poster Award, Honorable Mention, Jackson School Research Symposium
NIKKI SEYMOUR
Folk/McBride Petrography Contest, 2nd Place Graduate
REBEKAH SIMON
Technical Sessions Best Speaker, Fall, MS
PAM SPECIALE
Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award, 1st Place, Jackson School Research Symposium
KAUSTUBH THIRUMALAI
Sedimentologist for IODP Expedition 353
Ewing-Worzel Fellowship, UTIG
USSSP PEA Award
KELLY THOMSON
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA
Statoil Graduate Fellowship
XINYUE (DENNIS) TONG
Outstanding TA Award, DGS
East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) Fellowship, NSF
Graduate External Research Grant Matching Funds, DGS
DOLORES VAN DER KOLK
Cordilleran Section Travel Grant, GSA
STEPHANIE WAFFORN
Late-Career Ph.D. Best Poster Award, 1st Place, Jackson School Research Symposium
WYLIE WALKER
Undergraduate Groundwater Field Methods Award
MAUREEN WALTON
Ewing-Worzel Fellowship, UTIG
JING YANG
Ronald K. DeFord Field Scholarship Fund, Jackson School of Geosciences
DANIEL YOUNG
Folk/McBride Petrography Contest, 2nd Place Undergraduate
GANG ZHANG
Outstanding TA Award, DGS
Staff
MELISSA GARCIA
President’s Outstanding Staff Award
ADRIAN HUH
DGS Staff Excellence Award
JESSICA HUST
UT’s 2015 Vick Academic Advising Award
MANDY LANCASTER
Guion Library Staff Honors
LAURA MATTYS
Guion Library Staff Honors
JESSIE ZEHR
DGS Staff Excellence Award
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