2008-2009 Dean’s Desk
May 1, 2009
Welcome to the Dean’s Desk, which celebrates accomplishments of members of the Jackson School community. To keep up with the many awards our faculty, staff and students receive, we are now listing honors annually for the calendar year. With this many honors, there is always a risk of overlooking some. Please accept the editors’ apologies and send along any omitted material, which we will place on the Web site. You can send information to J.B. Bird in the Dean’s Office. Enjoy reading about these distinctions and keep them coming.
| Recipient | Award | Division/Organization |
| Marc Airhart | Grand Award (First Place), Multimedia Programs | Council for Advancement and Support of Education, District IV |
| Don Blankenship | Keynote Speaker | Science of Solar System Ices: A Cross-Disciplinary Workshop, Oxnard, CA |
| Elizabeth Catlos | Fulbright Scholar Award at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, 2008 | Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State |
| Julia Clarke | Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension Award | North Carolina State University |
| Sigrid Clift | AGS Public Service Award | Austin Geological Society |
| Ian Dalziel | Honorary Fellow | The Geological Society, London, UK |
| Ian Dalziel | Keynote Speaker: The Rodinian – SW United States – East Antarctica (SWEAT) Fit Revisited | XIII Gondwana Symposium, Dali, Yunnan, China |
| Ian Dalziel | Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Visiting Chair | Texas Christian University |
| Ian Dalziel | Introductory Keynote Speaker | East Antarctica in space and through time, International Workshop |
| Tim Dooley | Jules Braunstein Memorial Award (in a tie) for Best Poster at the AAPG Annual Convention | American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) |
| Peter Flemings | Distinguished Lecturer | Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) |
| Peter Flemings | Keynote Speaker | Sediment Remobilisation, London Geological Society |
| Peter Flemings | Keynote Speaker | UKIODP Scientific Ocean Drilling Symposium, London |
| Peter Flemings | Keynote Speaker | Workshop on Seabed Sediment Pore Pressure, Oslo, Norway |
| Sergey Fomel | Honorable Mention, Best Poster presented at the 77th Annual International Meeting of SEG | Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) |
| Sergey Fomel | Top 30 presentation at the 77th Annual International Meeting of SEG: Applications of nonstationary regression | Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) |
| Sergey Fomel | Top 30 presentation at the 77th Annual International Meeting of SEG: Time-lapse image registration using the local similarity attribute | Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) |
| Cliff Frohlich | IRIS-SSA Distinguished Lecturer | The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) |
| GeoFORCE Texas | Silver Star Award | The Energy Collaborative Workforce Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership |
| Omar Ghattas | Finalist, 2008 ACM/IEEE Gordon Bell Prize, 2008 | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Omar Ghattas | Winner, TeraGrid Capability Computing Challenge Award, 2008 | TeraGrid |
| Bob Hardage | 2008 AAPG Certificate of Appreciation | American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) |
| Bob Hardage | Keynote Speaker: 50th Anniversary Celebration of RIPED in Beijing, China | Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED) |
| Sue Hovorka | Research Award | Division of Environmental Sciences |
| Mike Hudec | Jules Braunstein Memorial Award (in a tie) for Best Poster at the AAPG Annual Convention | American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) |
| Martin Jackson | Jules Braunstein Memorial Award (in a tie) for Best Poster at the AAPG Annual Convention | American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) |
| Charles Kerans | 2008 Excellence of Poster Presentation (in a tie) | SEPM |
| Charles Kerans | Gabrial Dengo Award 2008, Best Paper at AAPG International Convention, Cape Town, South Africa | American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) |
| Lawrence Lawver | Keynote Speaker “Geological Society of London/Society for Sedimentary Geology (GSL/SEPM) Joint Research Conference | Palaeogeography: the Spatial Context for Understanding the Earth System, St. John’s College |
| Jung-Fu “Afu” Lin | Lawrence Livermore Fellowship | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Bob Louks | President’s Certificate for Excellence in Presentation | AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division |
| Jerry Lucia | 2008 Excellence of Poster Presentation (in a tie) | SEPM |
| Jerry Lucia | Monroe G. Cheney Science Award | AAPG Southwest Section |
| Paul Mann | Leiv Eiriksson Fellowship (Visiting Researcher – University Stavanger, June) | Norwegian Research Council |
| Paul Mann | Top 10 Poster Award (Jiang et al) | AAPG Annual Convention |
| Paul Mann | Top 10 Poster Award (Contreras et al) | AAPG Annual Convention |
| David Mohrig | NSF Margins Distinguished Lecturer | National Science Foundation |
| Sharon Mosher | Honorary Fellow | The Geological Society, London, UK |
| Ian Norton | Career Achievement Award | ExxonMobil |
| Terry Quinn | Invited Keynote Speaker | First EuroMARC (European Collaboration for Implementation of Marine Research on Cores) Conference, La Colle sur Loup, France |
| Terry Quinn | Invited Keynote Speaker | Texas Earth and Space Science Revolution (TXESS) Workshop |
| Steve Ruppel | Public Service Award | Austin Geological Society |
| Steve Ruppel | President’s Certificate for Excellence in Presentation | AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division |
| Jack Sharp | 2008 Excellence of Poster Presentation (in a tie) | SEPM |
| Jack Sharp | Outstanding presentation | Water Down Under conference, 2008 |
| Jim Sprinkle | 2008 Gilbert Harris Award | Paleontological Research Institution |
| Jim Sprinkle | Second Place Grover E. Murray Best Published Paper Award (co-author with McCall and Molineux) | GCSSEPM/GCAGS |
| Ron Steel | AAPG Best Paper (2nd Place) | San Antonio, 2008 AAPG |
| Lesli Wood | Honorable Mention, Best Paper | Journal of Sedimentary Research |
| Recipient | Award | Division/Organization |
| Chris Bell | G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award, 2008 | Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Mark Cloos | JSG Outstanding Educator Award | Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Ian Dalziel | Career Research Excellence Award | University Co-op Society |
| Janet Everett | JSG Staff Excellence Award | Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Jack Holt | JSG Outstanding Research Award | Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Larry Mack | JSG Outstanding Service Award | Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Kitty Milliken | Bronze Award for Teaching with Technology”, IITAP Program, 2008 | University of Texas at Austin |
| Steve Ruppel | JSG Outstanding Research Award | Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Ron Steel | Joseph C. Walter Jr. Excellence Award | Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Kitty Milliken | Bronze Award for “Teaching with Technology”, IITAP Program, 2008 | University of Texas at Austin |
| David Mohrig | G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award, 2008 | Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Recipient | Position |
| Todd Housch | Senior Research Scientist |
| Jean-Philippe Nicot | Research Scientist |
| Guo-Yue Niu | Research Scientist |
| Recipient | Position | Division/Organization |
| Jamie Austin | Trustee | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Jamie Austin | Chair | American Geophysical Union Development Board |
| Don Blankenship | Co-Convenor | International Symposium on Radioglaciology and its Applications, Madrid |
| Don Blankenship | Co-Chair | National Astrobiology Institute Selection Panel (NASA), St. Louis |
| Kerry Cook | Trustee | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) |
| Craig Fulthorpe | Co-Chief Scientist | IODP Expedition 317, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand |
| Craig Fulthorpe | Associate Editor | Journal of Sedimentary Research |
| Craig Fulthorpe | Chair | JSG Endowment Committee |
| John Goff | Chair | JSG Strategic Planning Council |
| John Goff | Chair | JSG Rapid Response Committee |
| Sean Gulick | Co-Convenor | STEEP (ST. Elias Erosion/Tectonics Project) Meeting, The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics |
| Bob Hardage | Vice President | Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) |
| Tucker Hentz | Co-Chair, Technical Advisor | 2008 Annual AAPG Meeting |
| Charles Jackson | Associate Editor | Reviews of Geophysics |
| Lawrence Lawver | Convener | Geological Society of American (GSA) Penrose Conference on Tectonic Development of the Amerasia Basin, Banff, Alberta, Canada |
| Paul Mann | Associate Editor | GSA Bulletin |
| Terry Quinn | Chair | JSG Climate System Science Search Committee |
| Terry Quinn | Chair | Director, Search Committee, Institute for Geophysics |
| Terry Quinn | Associate Editor | Coral Reefs |
| Mrinal Sen | Co-chair | Technical Program Committee, SEG representative, Society of Petroleum Geophysicists Annual Meeting, Hyderabad, India |
| Mrinal Sen | Associate Editor | Geophysics, Seismic Modeling and Wave Propagation Section |
| Mrinal Sen | Associate Editor | Journal of Seismic Exploration |
| Mrinal Sen | Associate Editor | Computational Seismology and Geodynamics, AGU |
| Paul Stoffa | Associate Editor | Journal of Seismic Exploration |
| Student | Award | Division/Organization |
| Steven Joseph Arauza | Distinguished Scholar | University of Texas at Austin |
| Casey Leigh Corbin | Distinguished Scholar | University of Texas at Austin |
| Edward Albert Cross III | Distinguished Scholar | University of Texas at Austin |
| Jamie Levine | Teaching Award, 2009 | Texas Exes |
| Ellen Elizabeth Reid | Distinguished Scholar | University of Texas at Austin |
| Elizabeth Anne Rinehart | Distinguished Scholar | University of Texas at Austin |
| Derek Sawyer | Outstanding Student Paper Award | 2008 Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union |
These students earned external grants and those that applied also received matching funds from the Jackson School to complement their external grants. If this list is incomplete, please email additions. Thanks.
| Student | Title of Research | External Agency | Award | JSG Match |
| Hyein Ahn | The Nature and Origin of the Non-Sulfide Zinc Deposits, Sierra Majada District, Mexico | Society of Economic Geologists Foundation | $1,800 | $1,000 |
| Tricia Alvarez | Ike Crumbly Minorities in Energy Named Grant | AAPG | ||
| Sarah Davidson | Hydrogeological Characterization of recharge to Jacob’s Well Spring, Hays County Texas | Geological Society of America | $500 | $500 |
| Magdalena Ellis | Fracture Spatial Distribution along a fault zone in the Torridonian Sandstone, Northwestern Scotland | GDL Foundation | $6,000 | $1,000 |
| Peter Hargrove | Fault Related Fracture Permeability in a tight-gas sandstone analog, Eribull formation, Northern Scotland | GDL Foundation | $6,000 | $1,000 |
| Chaoshun Hu | OBS and MSC Data Analysis for ATIGER project | Chevron Corporation | $2,000 | $1,000 |
| Eric Kelly | Quantifying disequilibrium in regionally metamorphosed rocks through crystallization kinetics and garnet chemical zoning | Geological Society of America | $620 | $620 |
| Brian Kiel | 3D Paleochannels of Indonesia | River to Rock Conference | $300 | $300 |
| Glen Mackey | Assessing Tectonic Controls on the Provenence of Clastic Stratigraphic Sequences, Paleocene-Eocene Wilcox Group, Western Gulf of Mexico | Geological Society of America | $1,600 | $1,000 |
| Vishal T. Maharaj | Depositional element morphology and architecture of the Atoka Interval, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, USA | Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| Glenn Makechnie | Eolian Sequence Stratigraphy of the Entrada Sandstone, Four Corners Region | ExxonMobil | $5,000 | $1,000 |
| Enrique Rosario | Improved probablistic Streamflow Forecasting Using Ensebles of Calibarated Distrubited NOAH Land Surface Model. SAC-SMA and Statistical Learning Machines within an Assimilation Framework | NOAA | $50,000 | $1,000 |
| Carla Sanchez | 3D Stratigraphic Architecture of a Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Margin, Neogene Australian Northwest Shelf | AAPG | $1,500 | $1,000 |
| Audrey Sawyer | The Role of Wood Debris in Driving Fluid, Solute and Heat Exchange in River Sediment | AAPG | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| Derek E. Sawyer | Failure and Post-Failure Evolution of Submarine Landslides | AAPG | $2,000 | $1,000 |
| John Singleton | Structural Evolution of the Buckskin Metamorphic Core Complex, Arizona | Geological Society of America | $2,200 | $1,000 |