STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM AWARDS

November 20, 2017

In February 2017 the Jackson School’s Graduate Student Executive Committee organized its 6th Annual Research Symposium. Winners and honorable mentions are as follows:

LATE CAREER PH.D. STUDENT

1st Place: Douglas Barber (Solid Earth & Tectonic Processes):

Linkages between orogenic plateau build-up, fold-thrust shortening, and foreland basin evolution in the Cenozoic Zagros (Iran-Iraq)

2nd Place: Tomas Capaldi (Solid Earth & Tectonic Processes):

Neogene foreland basin evolution during a shift to flat-slab
subduction in Argentina (30.5°S)

Honorable Mention: Margaret Odlum (Solid Earth & Tectonic
Processes):

Detrital zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) double dating of
Southern Pyrenees foreland basin fill: implications for sediment routing during tectonic inversion and orogenesis

LATE-CAREER MASTER’S STUDENT

1st Place: Nicholas Ettinger (Climate, Carbon & Geobiology):

A Multiproxy record of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in
Shallow-Water Carbonates from the Adriatic Carbonate Platform

2nd Place: Reinaldo Sabbagh Maciel (Climate, Carbon & Geobiology):

Sensitivity analysis of Lower Miocene sandstones to CO2
saturation in the inner continental shelf of the Texas Gulf of Mexico

Honorable Mention: Juan Munoz (Solid Earth & Tectonic
Processes):

Holocene Geologic Slip Rate for the Mission Creek
Strand of the southern San Andreas fault, Indio Hills, California

EARLY-CAREER GRADUATE STUDENT

1st Place: Allison Lawman (Climate, Carbon & Geobiology):

A Coral-based Reconstruction of Interannual Climate Variability at Vanuatu during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (950–1250 CE)

2nd Place: Kelly Thomson (Solid Earth & Tectonic Processes):

Tracing Environmental Signals from Source to Sink: Zircon
(U-Th)/(He-Pb) Double Dating Applied to the Foreland Basins of the South Central Pyrenees, Spain

Honorable Mention: Brandon Shuck (Marine Geosciences):

Evolution of the Upper Lithosphere in the ENAM Area from 3-D Wide-Angle Seismic Data

UNDERGRADUATE

1st Place: Emilie Bowman (Solid Earth & Tectonic
Processes):

Investigating Magma Chamber Evolution using
Mafic Enclaves and Plagioclase Zoning: Grasberg Igneous
Complex, Papua, Indonesia

2nd Place: Cole Speed (Marine Geosciences):

Late Quaternary Paleochannel Systems of the East Texas Inner Continental Shelf

Honorable Mention: Cody Draper (Solid Earth & Tectonic
Processes):

Trace Elements and Oxygen Isotope Zoning of the
Sidewinder Skarn

BEST REPRESENTED RESEARCH GROUP

1st Place: Whitney Behr Research Group
2nd Place: Sergey Fomel Research Group