Student Research Symposium Awards

December 5, 2022

The Jackson School of Geoscience’s 11th Annual Student Research Symposium took place in April 2022 at the Bureau of Economic Geology’s core library and rock garden. The research symposium is hosted by the Jackson School’s Graduate Student Executive Committee and showcases the amazing array of research from across the school. The winners and honorable mentions are as follows:

LATE CAREER PH.D. STUDENT

1st Place: Ethan Conrad: The structural and morphological evolution of transpressive systems: insights from analog modeling
2nd Place: Nicholas Meszaros: Emergence of supervolcanism at Valles Caldera as recorded by changes in oxygen fugacity and crystal cargo
Honorable Mention: Molly Zebker: Tropospheric Artifact Estimates to Optimize InSAR Time Series Without In Situ or Weather Model Information

LATE CAREER MASTERS STUDENT

1st Place: Caroline McKeighan: 3D Interpretation, Structural Characterization, and Seismogenic Association of Faults in the Eagle Ford Region, south-central Texas
2nd Place: Gabrielle Varona: Paleogeographic evolution of the Orange and Green sands in WR 313, Deep-water Gulf of Mexico
Honorable Mention: Maximilian Ehrenfels: Intrusion and cooling history of some late-tectonic Salem granites (Namibia) as deduced from U-Pb and Ar-Ar thermochronology and implications for the Damara orogeny

EARLY CAREER GRADUATE STUDENT

1st Place: Grace Guryan: Lithologic Controls on Landscape Evolution: Modeling how the Cover Effect Influences Effective Erodibility
2nd Place: Patricia Standring: Deep Ocean Circulation in the Southern Gulf of Mexico at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition
Honorable Mention: Mariel D. Nelson: Characterizing short- term alluvial river bank erosion patterns with time-lapse airborne lidar and UAV-derived structure-from-motion topography data

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

1st Place: Carole Lakrout: Identifying Micro-biomes and Biomineralization in Caves
2nd Place: Reem Alomar: Seismic data matching by least- squares non-stationary triangle smoothing
Honorable Mention: Matthew Riley: Chlorine and Fluorine Abundances of Hydrous Minerals in Colorado Plateau Mantle Xenoliths: A Step Towards Quantifying the Mantle Halogen Budget

BEST REPRESENTED RESEARCH GROUP

Best Performance: Daniel Stockli Research Group
Best Representation: Rowan Martindale Research Group

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT

1st Place: Maria Contreras and Megan Marostica: Salacia: Creating Another Earth
2nd Place: Divya Shukla and Lainie Stone: Terraforming Terrestrial Planets
Honorable Mention: Keira Boehle and Heba Dalu: Paradome: Paraterraform Your Paradise