Awards

November 1, 2021

Common Abbreviations

FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS

MOHSEN AHMADIAN
Best Paper Award, Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics

ADRIEN ARNULF
Honorable Mention, Best Paper at the Annual Meeting, SEG

SAHAR BAKHSHIAN
Runner-up, Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

THORSTEN BECKER
Evgueni Burov Medal, International Lithosphere Program
Elected Member, Academia Europaea

DON BLANKENSHIP
Director’s Circle of Excellence, UTIG

GINNY CATANIA
Community Partnership, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, JSG

DAVID CHAPMAN
Best Paper Award, Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics

KERRY COOK
Outstanding Research Award, JSG

JACOB COVAULT
Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG
Jules Braunstein Memorial Award, Best Poster Session Paper, AAPG
Robert Mitchum Award for Best Paper in Basin Research, European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers

MARCY DAVIS
Eleanor Picard Excellence Award, UTIG

IAN DALZIEL
Penrose Medal, GSA

DALLAS DUNLAP
Jules Braunstein Memorial Award, Best Poster Session Paper, AAPG

TIM DOOLEY
Runner-up, Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

SERGEY FOMEL
Distinguished Lecturer, SEG
Honorary Member, Geophysical Society of Houston

JOHN GOFF
Joseph C. Walter Jr. Excellence Award, JSG

TIMOTHY GOUDGE
Azrieli Global Scholar, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Knebel Teaching Award, DGS
Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Sciences, AGU

CYRIL GRIMA
Director’s Circle of Excellence, UTIG

SEAN GULICK
Director’s Circle of Excellence, UTIG
Outstanding Educator Award, JSG

MARK HELPER
Knebel Teaching Award, DGS

BRIAN HORTON
Knebel Teaching Award, DGS

SEYYED HOSSEINI
Runner-up, Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

MICHAEL HUDEC
Jules Braunstein Memorial Award, Best Poster Session Paper, AAPG
Runner-up, Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

RICHARD KETCHAM
Martin Dodson Prize, International Standing Committee on Thermochronology

JOHN LASSITER
Knebel Teaching Award

CHRISTOPHER LOWERY
Outstanding Research, UTIG

ASHLEY MATHENY
CAREER grant, NSF

KITTY MILLIKEN
Honorary Membership Award, SEPM

PANKAJ MISHRA
Honorable Mention, Best Paper at the Annual Meeting, SEG

DAVID MOHRIG
G.K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes, AGU

GEETA PERSAD
Generation Climate leader, Environmental Defense Fund

CORNELIA RASMUSSEN
Outstanding Young Researcher, UTIG

BO REN
Career Development Publication Award, BEG
Southwestern America Regional Young Professional Member Outstanding Service Award, SPE

MRINAL SEN
Honorable Mention, Best Paper at the Annual Meeting, SEG

CAROLINE SEYLER
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, AGU

ZACHARY SICKMANN
Outstanding Postdoc, UTIG

JOHN SNEDDEN
Career Award, UTIG

CHENGUANG SUN
Mineralogical Society of America Award, MSA

ZOLTAN SYLVESTER
Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG
Jules Braunstein Memorial Award, Best Poster Session Paper, AAPG

SCOTT TINKER
Energy Leadership Award, Hart Energy

DANIEL TRUGMAN
Knebel Teaching Award, DGS
Top Five Downloaded Paper in 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

LAURA WALLACE
Director’s Circle of Excellence, UTIG

JINYU ZHANG
Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

ZEYU ZHAO
Honorable Mention, Best Paper at the Annual Meeting, SEG

PROMOTIONS

JAIME BARNES
Professor

DANIEL BREECKER
Professor

BEN HESTER
Manager for Research Administration and Finance

SEYYED HOSSEINI
Senior Research Scientist

XAVIER JANSON
Senior Research Scientist

FARZAM JAVADPOUR
Senior Research Scientist

SHENG PENG
Research Scientist

SARA SIEBERATH
Assistant Director for Research Administration and Finance

MICHAEL SWEET
Program Director

LAURA WALLACE
Senior Research Scientist

STUDENTS

RAWAN ALASAD
Grants-in-Aid Fund, AAPG Foundation

SAIF ALHAJRI
Mineralogical Society of America’s Undergraduate Prize, MSA

EMILY BAMBER
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, AGU
Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology Fellowship, NASA

CLAUDIA BANKS
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA
Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention, NSF

LAKIN BEAL
Runner-up, Graduate Student Best Paper, JSG

JAMES BIEMILLER
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG

REETAM BISWAS
Honorable Mention, Best Paper at the Annual Meeting, SEG

JAKE BURSTEIN
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG

COLE CARRABBA
L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant, AAPG Foundation

EDWARD CLENNETT
Graduate Fellowship, JSG

ETHAN CONRAD
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, AGU

SARAH DAVIS
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Spring, DGS
Charlotte Mangum Award, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

SCOTT ECKLEY
Best Lightning Talk, Tomography for Scientific Advancement Symposium

ABDULAH ELJALAFI
Meckel Family Grant, AAPG
Foundation Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Fall, DGS
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Spring, DGS

MEGAN FLANSBURG
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Fall, DGS

ANDREW GASE
Outstanding Graduate Student, UTIG

NICOLE GONZALEZ
Future Leaders Fellowship, BP

BROOKLYN GOSE
Master’s Saturday Best Speaker, DGS

HIMA HASSENRUCK-GUDIPATI
GSEC Student Service Award, DGS

EVELIN GUTIERREZ
William Dow Hamm Memorial Grant, AAPG Foundation

JAIME HIRTZ
Master’s Saturday Best Speaker, DGS

ESTEFANIA SALGADO-JAUREGUI
Jackson Fellowship in Geohydrology, JSG
Wiley Fund for Excellence in Hydrogeology, JSG

SARP KARAKAYA
R. Randy Ray Memorial Grant, AAPG Foundation

DOMINIK KARDELL
Best Ph.D. Talk, DGS

JASMEEN KAUR
Austin Geological Society Award

MARK LAWRENCE
Estwing Hammer Award, DGS

KYLE MA
Mineralogical Society of America’s Undergraduate Prize, MSA

NAOMA MCCALL
Outstanding Graduate Student, UTIG

NICK MESZAROS
AGeS2 Geochronology Student Research Grant, GSA/NSF
Off Campus Research Grant, JSG

JOHN MORETTI
Whitney Endowed Presidential Scholarship, JSG

ZACHARY MURPHY
Runner-up, Graduate Student Best Paper, JSG
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG

KELLY OLSEN
Runner-up, Graduate Student Best Paper, JSG

PATRICIA ASCANIO-PELLON
Grants-in-Aid Fund, AAPG Foundation

EIRINI POULAKI
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Spring, DGS

SEBASTIAN RAMIRO RAMIREZ
Equinor Fellow

WILLIAM REYES
Graduate Research Fellowship Program, NSF

CATHERINE ROSS
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG
Graduate Student Fellowship, UT Center for Planetary Systems Habitability
Barrow Graduate Fellowship, JSG
Salvador Stratigraphy Scholarship Endowment, JSG

IRINEO SANCHEZ
Austin Geological Society Award

SIMON SCARPETTA
Graduate Student Best Paper, JSG

KEVIN SHIONALYN
Robert D. Bentley Award for Superior Academic Performance, Central Washington University

BRANDON SHUCK
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG
Outstanding Graduate Student Award, UTIG
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, AGU
Student Presentation Award, SSA

SINJINI SINHA
Student Grant Program, Evolving Earth Foundation
Lewis and Clark Fund, American Philosophical Society

COLE SPEED
Grants-in-Aid Fund, AAPG Foundation

PATTY STANDRING
Arthur James Boucot Award, Paleontological Society
Tilly Edinger Travel Grant, Time Scavengers
Graduate Research Fellowship Program, NSF

THARIT TANGKIJWANICHAKUL
L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant, AAPG Foundation

JUSTIN THOMPSON
Best Ph.D. Talk, DGS

WEI WEI
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG

ERIC WIESER
EER Fellowship, JSG

NATALIE WOLFENBARGER
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG

GEORGE SEGEE-WRIGHT
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA
Harold T. Stearns Fellowship Award, GSA
Graduate School Summer Fellowship, UT

YU-CHEN ZHENG
David Worthington Family Grant, AAPG Foundation

STAFF

JESSICA BRADFORD
Texas Exes James W. Vick Advising Award, UT

PHILIP GUERRERO
Outstanding Service Award, JSG

BENJAMIN HESTER
Staff Excellence Award, JSG

MONICA KORTSHA
University Excellence in Communications Writing Award, UT
University Excellence in Communications Media Relations Award Finalist, UT

KIM LAVALLEY
Staff Service Award, BEG

AMANDA MASTERSON
Special Recognition Award, BEG

SARA SIEBERATH
Outstanding Support Staff, UTIG

CARLA THOMAS
Outstanding Support Staff, UTIG

JOSEPH YEH
The University of Texas at Austin President’s 2021 Outstanding Staff Award
Staff Excellence Award, BEG