Awards & Honors 2013-2014
October 21, 2014
Common Abbreviations:
AAPG = Amer. Assoc. of Petroleum Geologists
AIPG = American Institute of Prof. Geologists
AGS = Austin Geological Society
AGU = American Geophysical Union
BEG = Bureau of Economic Geology
DGS = Department of Geological Sciences
GCAGS = Gulf Coast Assoc. Geological Societies
GSA = Geological Society of America
SEG = Society of Exploration Geophysicists
UTIG = Institute for Geophysics
Faculty & Researchers
William Ambrose
EMD (Energy Minerals Division of AAPG) Honorary Membership, presented at annual AAPG Convention; EMD (Energy Minerals Division of AAPG) President’s Certificate for Excellence in Poster Presentation presented at annual AAPG Convention
James Austin
Outstanding Career Researcher Award, UTIG
Jaime Barnes
JSG Outstanding Educator Award, DGS
Robert Baumgardner
Charles J. Mankin Memorial Award, Association of American State Geologists
Christopher Bell
Intro Knebel Teaching Award
Bayani Cardenas
Best Represented Research Group, 1st place, Jackson School Research Symposium
William Carlson
Knebel Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching
Ginny Catania
DGS Science Award
Julia Clarke
JSG Outstanding Research Award, DGS
Kerry Cook
Knebel Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching
Michael DeAngelo
BEG Author Achievement Award
Shirley Dutton
Distinguished Lecturer, AAPG; Doris Malkin Curtis Medal, Gulf Coast Section
Sergey Fomel
Top 30 presentation at the 82nd Annual International Meeting of SEG; Tinker Family BEG Publication Award;Best Student Poster at 83rd Annual International Meeting of SEG
Julia Gale
Distinguished Lecturer, AAPG
Stephen Grand
Shell Companies Foundation Centennial Chair in Geophysics
Herbert Hamlin
Charles J. Mankin Memorial Award, Association of American State Geologists
Bob Hardage
Past President, SEG Board of Directors
Tucker Hentz
Distinguished Service Award, GCAGS; Fellow, GSA
Brian Horton
Outstanding Researcher Award, UTIG; Director’s Circle of Excellence
Susan Hovorka
BEG Publication Award, Exemplary Publication of Scientific or Economic Impact for process-based approach to CO2 leakage detection by vadose zone gas monitoring at geologic CO2 storage sites
Charles Jackson
Statoil-funded Lectureship at Imperial College, 2010-2013 (£350,000)
Martin Jackson
William L. Fisher Endowed Chair in Geological Sciences, BEG
Charles Kerans
Grover P. Murray Distinguished Educator Award, AAPG; Francis J. Pettijohn Medal for Sedimentology, Society for Sedimentary Geology
Richard Ketcham
DGS Science Award
Joseph Levy
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, UTIG
Robert Loucks
2014 AAPG Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award; Karst Waters Institute 2014 KWI Karst Award; AAPG Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award; GCAGS Journal President’s Award
Floyd Lucia
GCAGS Journal President’s Award for Best Paper
Ernest Lundelius Jr.
Distinguished Career Award, American Quaternary Association
Timothy Meckel
Bernold M. “Bruno” Hanson Division of Environmental Geosciences Excellence of Presentation Award, AAPG Annual Convention
Lorena Moscardelli
BEG-GAAC Publication Award
Jean-Philippe Nicot
Joseph C. Walter Jr. Excellence Award, BEG
Katherine Romanak
BEG Publication Award, Exemplary Publication of Scientific or Economic Impact for process-based approach to CO2 leakage detection by vadose zone gas monitoring at geologic CO2 storage sites; Most Groundbreaking, Innovative and Insightful Presentation at the 12th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture Utilization & Sequestration
Bridget Scanlon
Fellow, American Geophysical Union
Krista Soderlund
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, UTIG
Daniel Stockli
Best Represented Research Group, 2nd place, Jackson School Research Symposium
Scott Tinker
John T. Galey Sr. Memorial Public Service Award, AIPG; Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Understanding of Geology, American Geosciences Institute; TIPRO “Hats Off” Award; AAPG Geosciences in the Media National Award
Brad Wolaver
BEG-GAAC Publication Award
Changbing Yang
BEG Publication Award, Exemplary Publication of Scientific or Economic Impact for process-based approach to CO2 leakage detection by vadose zone gas monitoring at geologic CO2 storage sites
Staff
Cathy Brown
JSG Outstanding Service Award, BEG
Kim LaValley
Best Paper Award, COMSOL Conference
Lynda Miller
JSG Staff Excellence Award, UTIG
Hejun Zhu
Excellence Prize of 2012 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad; Jackson School Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
Promotions
Peter Eichhubl
Senior Research Scientist, BEG
Ursula Hammes
Research Scientist, BEG
Farzam Javadpour
Research Scientist, BEG
Richard Ketcham
Professor, DGS
Luc Lavier
Associate Professor, DGS
Kirk McIntosh
Senior Research Scientist, UTIG
Cornel Olariu
Research Scientist, DGS
Students
Tricia Alverez
Student Oral Presentation Sponsored by Shell, AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition
Veronica Anderson
Graduate Research Grant
Katelyn Atakturk
Student Service Award, Graduate Student Executive Committee
Khushboo Arora
Chevron Texaco Fellowship; Muehlberger Field Scholarship
Kevin Befus
Horton Research Grant, AGU
Kenneth Befus
Technical Sessions Best Speaker Award, Ph.D., DGS
Alyse Briody
Technical Sessions Best Speaker Award, M.S, DGS
Meredith Bush
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA; Alexander and Geraldine Wanek Memorial Grant, AAPG; Statoil Graduate Fellowship; Ogden Tweto Memorial Fund Grant, Colorado Scientific Society; Geological Societies Student Grant, Gulf Coast Association
Amanda Calle
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA
Taylor Canada
Folk/McBride Petrography Award, DGS
Marie Cavitte
Late-Career Ph.D. Best Poster Award, 1st place, Jackson School Research Symposium
Yangkang Chen
Marathon Geophysics Fellowship, Marathon Oil Company
Michael Brett Cronin
Late-Career M.S. Best Poster Award, 2nd place, Jackson School Research Symposium
Debanjan Datta
Anadarko/SEG Scholarship
Joshua Davis
Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award, 1st place, Jackson School ResearchSymposium
Luke Decker
Best Student Poster at SEG
Robert Dennen
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, DGS
Audrey Eljuri
Undergraduate Best Poster Award, 1st place, Jackson School Research Symposium
Rattanaporn Fong-Ngern
Late-Career Ph.D. Best Poster Award, 2nd place, Jackson School Research Symposium
Marina Fredrik
Graduate Research Grant, GSA
Stefanie Frelinger
Matthewson Scholarship Award, Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists
Michelle Gevedon
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, DGS
Kealie Goodwin
Exxon Mobile Travel Grant; GSA Grant; Roscoe G. Jackson II Award for Sedimentology
Emily Hernandez Goldstein
Graduate Research Fellowship,National Science Foundation
Menal Gupta
Anadarko/SEG Scholarship; ExxonMobil Travel Grant/SEG Scholarship
Jacob Jordan
Early-Career Graduate Best Poster Award, 2nd place, Jackson School Research Symposium
Woong Mo Koo
William Dow Hamm Memorial Grand, AAPG
Renas I. Koshnaw (Mohammed)
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA
Felicia Kulp
Late-Career M.S. Best Poster Award, 1st place, Jackson School Research Symposium
Ashley Latimer
Technical Sessions Best Speaker Award, M.S., DGS
Matthew Ledvina
Society of Economic Geologists Student Research McKinstry Grant
Sasha Montelli
Fulbright Scholarship
Kimberly Myers
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, DGS
Johnathon Osmond
East Texas Geological Society Scholarship; GSA Structural Geology & Tectonics Division Field Trip Grant
Allison Pace
GK-12 Fellowship, Environmental Science Institute
Yang Peng
CSC Scholarship, Golden Bay Scholarship
Nicholas Perez
Research Grant, AAPG
Natalie Raia
Folk/McBride Petrography Award, DGS
Sebastian Ramerez
Post-Expedition Award, International Ocean Discovery Program; AGU Travel Grant; Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA
Reed Roush
A.L. Cox Best Poster Award, AAPG Southwest Section Annual Conference
Dustin Schroeder
Best Graduate Paper Award, JSG
Jeffrey Senison
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, DGS
Nikki Seymour
Folk/McBride Petrography Award, DGS
Timothy Shin
Technical Sessions Best Speaker Award, M.S., DGS
Kaustubh Thirumalai
Shipboard Scientist Candidate for Joides Resolution
Kelsi Ustipak
Kuhn Intellectual Entrepreneurship Award, IE Program College of Communications; Best Graduate Student Cover Letter; GSA Research Grant Award; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division Student Research Award
Maureen LeVoir Walton
Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU 2013 Fall Meeting; Student Presentation Award, Seismological Society of America 2014 Annual Meeting, GK-12 Fellowship, Environmental Science Institute; Ewing/Worzel Fellowship, UTIG
Logan West
GK-12 Fellowship, Environmental Science Institute
Jie Xu
Ewing/Worzel Fellowship, UTIG; Ronald K. DeFord Field Scholarship Fund, Jackson School of Geosciences
Julie Zurbuchen
Undergraduate Best Poster Award, 2nd place, Jackson School Research Symposium