Dean's Office & Geology Foundation
Eric J. Barron
Dean, Jackson School of Geosciences,
Director of the Geology Foundation
ebarron@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-6048
Fax: 512-471-5585
Glynis Morse
Executive Assistant
gmorse@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-6048
Fax: 512-471-5585
Glynis Morse is the Assistant to Dean Barron. She runs his office, plans his travel,
and coordinates his calendar. Glynis manages the Dean's office staff.
Glynis coordinates Jackson School special events including Commencement, Awards and Honors Programs.
Lauren Darcy
Office Assistant
ldarcy@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-6048
As the receptionist for the Dean’s Office Lauren Darcy greets visitors and guests, answers incoming phone calls,
and schedules appointments in the Jackson Conference Room.
As an acting assistant to Glynis Morse, Lauren assists with the coordination of
meetings and events.
Lauren maintains the Jackson School’s merchandise and provide general office upkeep.
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Doug Ratcliff
Director for Outreach and International Programs
dratcliff@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-4968
Doug Ratcliff is the Director of Outreach Programs. He is responsible for coordinating the School’s outreach programs
and for direct supervision of GeoFORCE Texas. GeoFORCE is designed to
encourage middle- and high-school students from southwest Texas to take on the
challenges of a rigorous math and science curriculum and pursue higher education in these fields.
Ratcliff is also responsible for international outreach including the
School’s Latin American Forum. The Forum brings select leaders and decision
makers together from the Americas for the purpose of developing a strategy for
collaboratively addressing issues of importance associated with energy resources and the environment.
Julie Spink
Program Coordinator
jspink@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-4360
As coordinator of one of
the largest minority targeting geosciences pipeline program in the nation,
Julie Spink is making a difference in the lives of students in rural Southwest Texas communities.
Spink also plans nation-wide field trips to outstanding sites of geological interest and coordinates
the JSG’s efforts for the largest open house in Texas – Explore UT.
Danielle Horton
Program Coordinator
dhorton@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-232-9354
Horton also coordinates the summer programs for GeoFORCE Houston and accompanies the students on trips. Her background
includes a Bachelor's of Science in Geosciences, a Master's in Education, experience teaching middle-school and high-school
science (physics, chemistry, biology) in Louisiana and California, and outreach efforts with the Math Engineering Science
Achievement (MESA) academic enrichment program of the University of California.
Danielle Horton assists the Director for Outreach Programs with grant writing and fundraising for GeoFORCE, creates
and manages Outreach Program databases, participates in geoscience education outreach at the state and national level,
and coordinates and presents at GeoFORCE Educator Workshops.
Cristina Rodriguez
Conference Coordinator I
crodriguez@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-0673
Cristina Rodriguez coordinates all logistics for Math, Science, Engineering Academy (MSEA)
events hosted by the Jackson School, including reserving Jester Dormitory rooms and meals,
arranging transportation to and from all events, scheduling campus tours, capitol tours,
and field trips to geological sites.
Rodriguez also coordinate presentations given by TXMM paleontologists, corporate sponsors, and current students.
She purchases all supplies for these events,as well as preparing and submitting all required UT documents.
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Luciano Correa
Research Engr/Sci Assoc III
lcorrea@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-1386
Luciano Correa is responsible for managing all the royalty assets of the Jackson School of Geosciences.
Correa designs, implements, and maintains a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) for oil
and gas royalty assets managed by the Geology Foundation. The portfolio includes more than 1,300 oil and gas wells.
He performs continuous analysis of production trends represented by royalty payments made to the Foundation including
market forecast, decline curves analysis, impact of price on production and revenues, and distribution of revenues
across various products (oil, gas, derivatives).
Correa provides periodic reports to the management with analytical tools to evaluate the state of the assets including
comparison of production, regional prices, and current financial instrument trends.
He is also responsible for investigating permit applications in the region, processing all division orders including legal
descriptions and royalty ownership, placing well spots into the GIS system and maintaining documentation of
leases and all legal documents associated to ownership.
Additionally, he fulfills research and analysis of exploration trends in the region including new well activity and completion technologies,
and prepares ad-hoc reports as assigned by the director as business requirements provide the opportunity.
Correa also prepares General Statistical Analysis of geological and engineering data set for different energy projects, economic evaluation,
simulation and modeling of Oil and Gas prospects.
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The communications team represents to the outside world the accomplishments, goals,
ideas, and impact of the Jackson School of Geosciences. In addition to our Jackson
School duties, we have an informal reporting line to Don Hale, the university’s vice
president of public affairs. We work in five main areas: publications, public & media
relations, Websites, branding, and internal communications.
J.B. Bird
Communications Director
jb.bird@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-232-9623
J.B. Bird can be contacted about work in all areas. You should go to him directly with
public & media relations requests, including crisis communications, which he will
coordinate with the dean and UT’s VP of public affairs.
Marc Airhart
Science Writer
mairhart@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-2241
Marc Airhart is our main science writer and author of many of the feature stories on the
JSG Web site. He focuses on writing for publications and internal communications, and he
manages This Week in Geosciences and the digital information screens.
You can also contact
him about public & media relations, where he coordinates work with J.B. Marc spends the
majority of his time interviewing and writing about our scientists and preparing journalistic
pieces for publication on our Web site and in our publications.
Phillip Dubov
Webmaster
pdubov@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-232-9472
Phillip Dubov works part-time on the Jackson School Web site. Contact Phillip about any
design or content issues you spot on the Web, for technical Web help, or if you are
interested in initiating a Web project, such as a new research site.
Phillip spends about half of his time managing content and graphic design updates for the main JSG
Web site and the other half on special projects for programs and research groups.
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Sheree Courney
Administrative Services Officer II
courney@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-3571
Sheree Courney is responsible for financial and HR oversight for the Jackson School. This includes
accounting functions, budgets, hotel contracts, appointment approvals, promotion/reclassification approvals,
interdepartmental fund transfers and faculty PAR documents. In addition, she is the Jackson School UBOC representative and
TxAdmin representative.
Rosalind Gamble
Senior Administrative Associate
rosalind.gamble@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-232-9384
Rosalind prepares voucher documents (VP1, VP2, VPE, etc.) and IDTs (VT1, VT2, VT5 and VT6),
researchs outstanding invoices and contact vendors as necessary.
She serves as procurement officer for the Dean's Office (contacts vendors, obtain bids and create purchase orders),
and creates prior approval documents for independent contractors/casual employees (APS/PBS) as requested by members of the Dean's Office.
Rosalind also develops administrative guidelines, procedures, timelines, and reports for JSG Dean's Office in accordance with
Administrative Services
Officer's specifications. She process appointments, payroll vouchers and recruiting documents for the Dean's Office as well as
processing SS1 and SS2 documents for JSG Outreach recipients. She maintains the JSG account list database and creates monthly financial
reports for members of the Dean's Office.
She also reconciles the Dean's Office accounts using *DEFINE's LMM module,
audits the petty cash fund and check log in accordance with university policy. Rosalind also assists Administrative Services Officer with budget
preparation and various special projects as assigned.
Randy Okumura
Administrative Manager
rokumura@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-3106
Randy manages the administrative system to support five search committees created
to hire 30-35 new faculty and scientists under the Jackson School’s strategic plan for 2007-2010.
In addition, he assists the Business Affairs and Administration Group Manager in addressing accounting and human resource issues.
Salwa Uzri
Administrative Associate
suzri@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-66048
Salwa processes applications for the new multiple hiring of faculty and scientists.
She also coordinates travel, lodging for candidates and arranges interviews and meetings with other faculty members.
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The Jackson School Development program works to engage alumni, friends, corporations and foundations to become actively involved, through donations of time, talent and finances, with the Jackson School as we seek to become the preeminent geosciences program in the nation. Elements of the program include the Annual Fund, Alumni Affairs, Corporate and Foundation Relations and Major Gift fundraising.
The Geology Foundation, established in 1953, is the philanthropic arm of the Jackson School. Standing on this solid history, the Jackson School Development Program is proud to bring a comprehensive approach to resource development across the three units of the Jackson School.
Ann Flemings
Director of Development and Alumni Relations,
Associate Director, Geology Foundation
aflemings@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-6048
Ann Flemings oversees the program
and works with alumni and friends to achieve their dreams/passions/goals through philanthropy.
She helps to identify their specific interests, connecting them to appropriate areas across the
JSG that make sense and works to establish endowment funds to support that area of passion in perpetuity.
She also works with individuals interested in establishing a legacy through their will or estate.
Nancy Ewert
Development Specialist
n.ewert@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-6048
Nancy Ewert is responsible for administrative tasks
that ensure the Jackson Development Office functions at an optimum level.
Working closely with the Director, she coordinates travel, events and activities
associated with the Development Program.
Julie Paul
Alumni Affairs Manager
jpaul@jsg.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-2223
Julie Paul works to bring Jackson School alumni and
friends together for camaraderie, career networking, mentoring and to reignite their
passion for geology and the Jackson School.
The Friends and Alumni Network (FANs) of the
Jackson School brings regional events, tailgates, social gatherings and educational enrichment
activities to our friends and alumni. The FANs are working to establish regional clubs to provide direct
access to the Jackson School in your area.
Debra Sue Trinque
Administrative Manager
dstrinque@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-6010
Debra Sue Trinque oversees the recognition process to
assure that we say “thank you” to our supporters in a meaningful manner.
We achieve this with thank you letters, recognition events and award societies, such as the Hill Society.
Debra Sue also provides bookkeeping for the endowment records of the Geology Foundation.
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