Student Research Symposium Awards
December 2, 2019
In February 2019, the Jackson School’s Graduate Student Executive Committee organized its 8th Annual Research Symposium. Winners and honorable mentions are as follows:
LATE-CAREER PH.D. STUDENT
1st Place: Ken Ikeda: Numerical and Laboratory Study of
Low-Frequency Elastic Properties of Limestone
2nd Place: Tomas Capaldi: Cordillera Evolution Along the
Southern Central Andean Margin Recorded by Detrital Zircon
U-Pb and Hf Isotopes
Honorable Mention: Brandon Shuck: From Rifting to
Subduction: Evidence for the Role of Past Tectonics Influencing
Subduction Initiation at the Puysegur Trench, New Zealand
LATE-CAREER MASTER’S STUDENT
1st Place: Skyler Dong: Pore-Scale Methane Hydrate Formation
Under Pressure and Temperature Conditions of Natural
Reservoirs
2nd Place: Gabriel Giacomone: Paleogeographic
Reconstruction and Characteristic Trends of a Basin Floor Fan in
Los Molles Fm, Neuquén Basin, Argentina
Honorable Mention: Fernando Apango: Top Seal Evaluation of
Miocene Deep-Water Reservoirs, Southern Gulf of Mexico
EARLY-CAREER GRADUATE STUDENT
1st Place: Andrew Gase: Crustal Structure of the Northern
Hikurangi Margin from Marine Seismic Reflection Imaging
and Onshore-Offshore Seismic Tomography: Implications for
Megathrust Heterogeneity and Overpressure in a Region of
Shallow Slow
2nd Place: Scott Eckley: Isotopically Light Carbon (δ13C-31
to -24 ‰) in the Mantle by at Least 3.2 Ga: Insights from
Carbonado Diamond
Honorable Mention: Natalie Wolfenbarger: Can Radar
Attenuation Serve as a Signal of Ice Shell Salinity on Europa?
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
1st Place: Arisa Ruangsirikulchai: Evolution of Return-
Flow Channels Cut Into San Jose Island, Texas, Caused by
Hurricane Harvey
2nd Place: Brooke Kopecky: Reconstructing Paleo-ENSO
Variability During the Holocene Using Geochemical Proxies
from Corals
Honorable Mention: Matthew Nix: Controls on the
Sedimentation and Morphology of an Oxbow Lake Along the
Trinity River, Texas, USA
BEST REPRESENTED RESEARCH GROUP
1st Place: David Mohrig Research Group
2nd Place: Harm Van Avendonk Research Group