Student Research Symposium Awards

November 1, 2021

In February 2021, the Jackson School’s Graduate Student Executive Committee hosted its 10th Annual Research Symposium. Winners and honorable mentions are as follows:

LATE-CAREER PH.D. STUDENT

1st Place: Paul Morris: Sinuous Deep-Water Channel Systems: Curvature Driven Evolution Drives Autogenic Aggradation Processes – Example from Eastern Gulf of Mexico

2nd Place: Kwun Yip Fung: Testing different dataset and machine learning methods accuracy in producing the Austin Local Climate Zone map

Honorable Mention: Grace Beaudoin: The evolution of the halogen budget in ophiolites from the Western Alps

LATE-CAREER MASTER’S STUDENT

1st Place: Leland Spangler: Timing and Controls on late Paleozoic Tectonism and Synorogenic Sedimentation, Bursum Formation, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

2nd Place: Joseph Syzdek: Mechanical Stratigraphic Control on Deformation in a Fault-Propagation Fold, Gobbler Anticline, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

Honorable Mention: Bethany Rysak: Analysis of Hydraulic Fracture Growth and Segmentation: Implications of Observations From the HFTS1 Slant Core, Wolfcamp Fm., Midland Basin, West Texas

EARLY-CAREER GRADUATE STUDENT

1st Place: Michelle Tebolt: Investigating the depositional environment of sedimentary fan features on Mars using orbital stratigraphy

2nd Place: Emily Bamber: How did Mars’ crater paleolakes form? Insights from Geomorphology

Honorable Mention: Ethan Conrad: Cenozoic Evolution of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary: Insights from Thermochronometric, Kinematic and Geomorphic Data

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

1st Place: Carole Lakrout: Life Mediated Mineral Deposits in Caves

2nd Place: Reem Alomar: Estimating the triangular smoothing radius using the Gauss-Newton method

Honorable Mention: Katherine Faulkner: Categorizing Variations of Phanerozoic Foraminifera Mineralogy

BEST REPRESENTED RESEARCH GROUP

1st Place: Timothy Goudge Research Group

2nd Place: Daniel Stockli Research Group

HIGH SCHOOL BEST POSTER AWARD

First Place: Miguel Liu-Schiaffini: Automated Identification of Ice Sheet Surface and Bed Interfaces Using Deep Learning

Second Place (Tie): Lochana Kalyanaraman: Analyzing Earth’s Processes for Space Exploration: Carrying our Knowledge of Life Beyond Earth; Second Place (Tie): Enrique Morales: Planet Terra

FIGURE COMPETITION

First Place: Eirini Poulaki: Thin sections from S. Spain-Oil painting on Canvas

Second Place: Rawan Alasad: Flow transformations in subaerial and subaqueous debris flows

Third Place (Tie): Brandon Shuck: Subduction initiation is a four dimensional process; Third Place (Tie): Cole Speed: A river through time; Third Place (Tie): Emily Bamber: Mechanisms of forming fluvial valleys into craters on Mars;

Third Place (Tie): Ethan Conrad: Hypothesis for the Cenozoic evolution of the Northern Caribbean plate boundary; Third Place (Tie): Grace Beaudoin: Halogen geochemical cycling; Third Place (Tie): Samuel Robbins: Red Sea rift model