Awards

2013 Categories

**Cash award prizes!!**

1. Undergraduate Best Poster Award, 1st and 2nd place

2. Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award, 1st and 2nd place (must be first year Master’s or pre-candidacy for PhD)

3. Late-Career Masters Best Poster Award, 1st and 2nd place

4. Late-Career PhD Award, 1st and 2nd place

5. Best-Represented Research Group (all students of an adviser presenting; possibility for multiple awards)

 

GSA South Central Raffle

The Geological Society of America South Central Section meeting will be held here in Austin on April 4-5, 2013. At the JSG Symposium, the GSA meeting will be raffling 2 free field trip registrations and 1 free social trip registration for 2.

The meeting is currently offering 12 field trips that cover a range of geological topics (urban hydrology, paleontology, general Texas geology, historical geology, igneous petrology and tectonics, etc). The field trip program for the GSA South Central Section meeting is here so be sure to check out one that looks interesting to you and sign up for the raffle at the Symposium.

In addition, the social trips will be organized by SherpaLux Tours, an Austin company specializes in unique tours and are listed here. The meeting is currently offering 6 social trips, including a few evening bar and culinary crawls and half day long tours of some Austin hotspots.

 

Congratulations to our 2013 winners!

Undergraduate Best Poster Award: 1st Place: Aaron Hantsche
‘Rare Earth Element Analysis of Anhydrite Veins and Source Magmas from the Ertsberg Mining District, Papua, Indonesia‘ (SETP22) 

2nd Place: Marissa Vara
‘Investigating ENSO Variability in the mid-Holocene using a Fossil Coral from the South Pacific‘ (MG05)
Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award: 1st Place: Lauren Becker
‘Analysis of fracture-related seismic attenuation and scattering: insights gained through numerical modeling‘ (EG35) 

2nd Place: Jake Jordan
‘Shock and Rarefaction Waves in a Heterogeneous Partial Melt‘ (SETP35)
Late-Career M.S. Best Poster Award: 1st Place: Jessica Kopp
‘The Effects of Varying Tectonic Subsidence in a Fluvio-Deltaic System‘ (SHP27) 

2nd Place: Kerstan Wallace
‘Use of 3-Dimensional Dynamic Modeling of CO2 Injection for Comparison toRegional Static Capacity Assessments of Miocene Sandstone Reservoirs in theTexas State Waters, Gulf of Mexico‘ (CCG39)
Late-Career PhD Best Poster Award: 1st Place: Dusty Schroeder
‘Configuration of Subglacial Water and Sediments Beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: Context for a Potential Melt-Water-Intensive Grounding-Line-Retreat‘ (SHP01) 

2nd Place: Paul Betka
‘The formation of a retroarc fold-thrust belt by the closure and inversion of a back-arc basin; Patagonian-Fuegian fold-thrust belt, Chile‘ (SETP21)
Best represented Research Group Award: 1st Place: Marc Hesse

2nd Place: Danny Stockli

 

2012 Winners:

Undergraduate Best Poster Award: 1st Place: Quinn Wenning
‘Characterizing Reactive Flow Paths in Fractured Cement’ (EG 15) 

2nd Place: Robert Zinke
‘Pre-eruptive storage conditions and the eruption of Douglas Knob obsidian lava dome, Yellowstone Caldera’ (SETP 29)
Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award: 1st Place:  Qinjian Jin
‘The Change in Wind and Dust Storm in the Middle East in multi-decadal scale and Their Correlations‘, (CCG-09) 

2nd Place:  Maureen LeVoir
‘Preliminary analysis of the Baranof Fan system, Gulf of Alaska, based on 2D seismic reflection and multibeam bathymetry data‘, (MG06)
Late-Career M.S. Best Poster Award: 1st Place: Bryant Kopriva
‘Stratigraphic Response of Variable Mini-Basin Subsidence Patterns Due to Autogenic Effects’, (SHP 08) 

2nd Place: Justin Fitch
‘Retroarc foreland basin evolution during Paleogene shortening, northern Altiplano plateau, southern Peru’ (SETP 13)
Late-Career PhD Best Poster Award: 1st Place: Charles Brothers
‘New constraints on the formation of Abalos Mensa, Planum Boreum Mars from radar stratigraphy and high-resolution imagery’ (PS01) 

2nd Place: Ethan Lake
‘Geometric controls on large volume mid-crustal magma chambers and magma evolution zones: A 3-D modeling approach’ (SETP16)
Best represented Research Group Award: 1st Place:  Danny Stockli

2nd Place: Tim Shanahan

 

You can only be considered for Early Career if it is your first year within the M.S. track or you are pre-candidacy for a PhD