2010-2011 Dean’s Desk
June 7, 2011
Welcome to the Dean’s Desk, which celebrates accomplishments of members of the Jackson School community. 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 |
| William Ambrose | Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award | AAPG |
| Florence Bonnaffe | Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award | AAPG |
| L. Frank Brown Jr. | Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award | AAPG |
| Gail Christeson | 2010-2011 Distinguished Lectureship | Consortium for Ocean Leadership |
| Peter Eichhubl | Most Cited Paper 2006-2010 | Journal of Structural Geology |
| Sergey Fomel | Two of the Top 30 Presentations, SEG Annual Meeting | SEG |
| Sergey Fomel | Conrad Schlumberger Award | European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers |
| FRAC | FRAC paper in Top-50 most cited articles | Tectonophysics |
| FRAC | Three FRAC papers in Top 25 Articles | ScienceDirect |
| GCCC Frio Project | CSLF Recognition Award | Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum |
| Ursula Hammes | A. I. Levorsen Best Paper Award (co-author) | Gulf Coast Section, GCSSEPM/GCAGS Annual Meeting |
| Tucker Hentz | Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award | AAPG |
| Tucker Hentz | Third Place, Gordon I. Atwater Best Poster Award | GCAGS |
| Jack Holt | Among 100 Top Stories of 2010 | Discover Magazine |
| Farzam Javadpour | Outstanding Service Award as Associate Editor | SPE-JCPT, Society of Petroleum Engineers |
| Rich Ketcham | Among 50 Most Cited Articles 2005-2010 | Journal of Structural Geology |
| Steve Laubach | Among 50 Most Cited Articles 2006-2010 | Tectonophysics |
| Steve Laubach | 38th Most Cited Article of All Time | International Journal of Coal Geology |
| Jung-Fu “Afu” Lin | CAREER Award | NSF |
| Robert Loucks | Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award | AAPG |
| Robert Loucks | A. I. Levorsen Best Paper Award (co-author) | Gulf Coast Section, GCSSEPM/GCAGS Annual Meeting |
| Paul Mann | Among 100 Top Stories of 2010 | Discover Magazine |
| David Mohrig | Outstanding Paper | Journal of Sedimentary Research |
| William Muehlberger | Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal | AGI |
| Suzanne Pierce | Fulbright NEXUS Scholar | Fulbright Program |
| Eric Potter | Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award | AAPG |
| Rob Reed | A. I. Levorsen Best Paper Award (co-author) | Gulf Coast Section, GCSSEPM/GCAGS Annual Meeting |
| Stephen Ruppel | Third Place, Gordon I. Atwater Best Poster Award | GCAGS |
| Stephen Ruppel | A. I. Levorsen Best Paper Award (co-author) | Gulf Coast Section, GCSSEPM/GCAGS Annual Meeting |
| Eleanour Snow | Second Place Paper, 2010 GCAGS Meeting, Oct 2010 | GCAGS |
| Ronald Steel | Grover E. Murray Distinguished Educator Award | AAPG |
| Fred Wang | Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award | AAPG |
| Lesli Wood | Third Place, Thomas A. Philpot Excellence of Presentation Award (co-author) | Gulf Coast Section, GCSSEPM/GCAGS Annual Meeting |
| Chris Zahm | Faculty Advisor to first place Imperial Barrel competition winners | Gulf Coast Section, AAPG |
| Recipient | Award | Division/Organization |
| Jay Banner | Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship | Friar Society |
| Jay Banner | Member | Academy of Distinguished Teachers |
| Chris Bell | Outstanding Educator Award | JSG |
| Daniel Breecker | LIFT Award | UT Research & Educational Technology Committee |
| Daniel Breecker | G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award (Graduate) | JSG |
| William Carlson | G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award (Undergrad) | JSG |
| William Carlson | Outstanding Teaching Award | UT Board of Regents |
| Elizabeth Catlos | Texas Exes Teaching Award | Texas Exes |
| Ian Duncan | Outstanding Service Award | BEG |
| Philip Guerrero | Outstanding Service Award | JSG |
| Richard Ketcham | G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award (Intro Geology) | JSG |
| David Mohrig | G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award (Graduate) | JSG |
| Lorena Moscardelli | 2010 Publication of the Year (co-author) | BEG |
| Eleanor Picard | Staff Excellence Award | JSG |
| Suzanne Pierce | LIFT Award | UT Research & Educational Technology Committee |
| Doug Ratcliff | Walter Excellence Award | JSG |
| STARR (William Ambrose and Ursula Hammes) | Outstanding Research Award | JSG |
| Michael Webber | Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship | UT Board of Regents |
| Lesli Wood | 2010 Publication of the Year (co-author) | BEG |
| Recipient | Position |
| Bayani Cardenas | Associate Professor |
| James Gardner | Professor |
| Xavier Janson | Research Scientist |
| Tip Meckel | Research Scientist |
| David Mohrig | Professor |
| Seay Nance | Research Associate |
| Jeffrey Paine | Senior Research Scientist |
| Eleanour Snow | Associate Director of Outreach |
| Michael Young | Senior Research Scientist |
| Name | Position | Division/Organization |
| Michelle Foss | Member, Technical Advisory Council | Natural Resource Charter |
| Sean Gulick | Co-Chief Scientist, IODP Leg 341 | IODP |
| Sean Gulick | Co-Chief Scientist, IODP Chixculub Experiment | IODP |
| Bob Hardage | President Elect | SEG |
| Steve Laubach | Elected Editor and Member Executive Committee | AAPG |
| Scott Tinker | President Elect | GCAGS |
| Lesli Wood | Sec. of Energy Ultra-deepwater Advisory Council | DOE |
| Student | Award | Division/Organization |
| Paola Arias | Best Student Poster Award | AGU |
| Kenny Befus | Jack Kleinman Award for Volcano Research | USGS |
| Kenneth Befus | Petrography Contest (Grad 2nd) | JSG |
| Ashley Bens | First Place, Imperial Barrel Award | AAPG |
| Rocio Bernal-Olaya | Third Place, Student Poster Competition | AAPG |
| William Burnett | Tech Sessions Best Speaker (PhD) | JSG |
| Meredith Bush | Thelma Lynn Guion Library Staff | JSG |
| Henry Campos | First Place, Student Poster Competition | AAPG |
| Edward “Ted” Cross | Estwing Hammer | JSG |
| Katherine Delbecq | Outstanding TA | JSG |
| Michael Fairbanks | First Place, Imperial Barrel Award | AAPG |
| Anjali Fernandes | Best Student Oral Presentation | AAPG |
| Justin Fitch | First Place, Imperial Barrel Award | AAPG |
| Meaghan Gorman | Tech Sessions Best Speaker (MS) | JSG |
| Lisa Helper | GSEC Student Service | JSG |
| Jamie Levine | Petrography Contest (Grad 1st) | JSG |
| Vishal Maharaj | Third Place, Thomas A. Philpot Excellence of Presentation Award | GCAGS |
| Vishal Maharaj | ExxonMobil Geoscience Award | Exxon Mobil |
| Kristine McAndrews | Second Place, Student Paper Competition, SPE HSSE Conference | SPE |
| Tyson McKinney | Summer 2011 Program | Yellowstone National Park |
| Erin Miller | First Place, Imperial Barrel Award | AAPG |
| Jennifer Olori | Romer Prize | SVP |
| Brandon Okafor | Student Employee of the Year | UT Austin |
| Wendy Robertson | Outstanding TA | JSG |
| Jillian Rowley | Petrography Contest (UG 1st) | JSG |
| Eugenio “Jay” Santillan | Outstanding Student Paper Award | AGU |
| Audrey Sawyer | Outstanding Student Presentation, ASLO Summer Meeting | American Society of Limnology and Oceanography |
| Julia Schneider | Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Fall Meeting | Mineral and Rock Physics Section, AGU |
| Tim Shin | Petrography Contest (UG 2nd) | JSG |
| Ben Siks | First Place, Imperial Barrel Award | AAPG |
| John Singleton | Outstanding TA | JSG |
| Calla Smith-Dowling | Thelma Lynn Guion Library Staff | JSG |
| Yanadet Sripanich | The American Mineralogist Undergraduate Award | Mineralogy Society of America |
| Michelle Stocker | Outstanding TA | JSG |
| Kongrath Suwannasri | Second Place Geophysics Poster- AAPG Student Expo | AAPG and SEG |
| Dolores van der Kolk | Top Ten Poster Presentations, AAPG International Conference & Exhibition, Calgary | AAPG |
| Dolores van der Kolk | HGS Outstanding Student | Houston Geological Society |
| Kurtus Woolf | 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition | AAPG |
| Yao You | Best Poster, SIAM Conference on Mathematics & Computational Issues in the Geosciences | SIAM |
| Yao You | Best Presentation, AGU Fall Meeting | AGU |
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 | Award | External Agency |
| Eric Anderson | Grants-in-Aid | AAPG |
| Kevin Befus | GSA Student Research Grant | GSA |
| Curtis Bixler | GSA Graduate Student Research Grant | GSA |
| Darrin Burton | Off campus research grant | JSG |
| Kuldeep Chaudhary | ExxonMobil Grant | ExxonMobil |
| Edward “Ted” Cross | HGS Scholarship | Houston Geological Society |
| Joshua Dixon | Fred A. and Jean C. Dix Grant | AAPG |
| Joshua Dixon | The Conoco Phillips Annual Fellowship | Conoco Phillips |
| Anne Dunkel | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship | NSF |
| Anjali Fernandes | Weimer Research Grant | SEPM |
| Anjali Fernandes | Grants-in-Aid | AAPG |
| Parker Foy | AGS Scholarship | Austin Geological Society |
| Emily Graham | SEG Foundation Scholarship | SEG |
| Eric Kelly | Glen and Martha Vargas Endowed Presidential Scholarship | JSG |
| Ethan Lake | Graduate Research Grant | GSA |
| Ethan Lake | Ogden Tweto Memorial Grant | Colorado Scientific Society |
| Vishal Maharaj | ConocoPhillips SPIRIT Scholar (2010) | ConocoPhillips |
| Vishal Maharaj | AAPG Grants-in-Aid William Dow Hamm Memorial Grant | AAPG |
| Vishal Maharaj | ExxonMobil Research Fellowship | ExxonMobil |
| Vishal Maharaj | Research Fellowship | GCSSEPM |
| Vishal Maharaj | 2010 Chevron Fellowship | Chevron Energy Technology Company |
| Vishal Maharaj | 2011 Ed Picou Fellowship Grant | Gulf Coast Society SEPM |
| Damian Markez | University Endowed Graduate Fellowship | JSG |
| Kylara Martin | CETC Scholarship | Chevron Energy Technology Company |
| Lindsay Olinde | SED ERG Fellowship | Conoco Phillips |
| Lindsay Olinde | Grants-in-Aid | AAPG |
| Ashley Payne | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship | NSF |
| Nick Perez | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship | NSF |
| Grant Petersen | AGS Field Camp Scholorship | JSG |
| Stefan Punnette | BG Fellowship | BG |
| Wendy Robertson | GSA Student Research Grant | GSA |
| John Shaw | Deford Field Scholarship | UT Off Campus Research Funding |
| John Shaw | SEPM Student Research Grant | Society for Sedimenary Geology |
| Tim Shin | Undergraduate Research Fellowship | UT VP of Research and JSG Match |
| Delores van der Kolk | Kenneth H. Crandall Memorial Grant | AAPG |
| Kurtus Woolf | Grants-in-Aid | AAPG |
| Peter Zamora | Student Research Grant | GSA |