12th Annual Student Symposium Winners

December 12, 2023

The Jackson School of Geoscience’s 12th Annual Student Research Symposium took place in February 2023 in San Jacinto Hall at The University of Texas at Austin. 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:

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

First Place: Shaunak Pandey: Pore-Scale Simulation of CO2 Migration in Rough-Walled Geologic Fractures through Volume of Fluid Method leveraging High-Performance Computing for Risk Assessment of Carbon Sequestration.

Second Place: Mae Stone: Evaluating the Economic Value of the UT-0D0 Planet and the Habitability of the System.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

First Place: Jacob Margoshes: Bathymetric and Subsurface Character of the Mississippi Submarine Canyon.

Second Place: Rebekah Garza: Deep Respiration in a Semi-arid Juniper Oak-woodland and Implications for Coupled Carbon and Water Cycling.

EARLY CAREER AWARD

First Place: Hazal Kirimli: Quantification of Environmental Impacts Associated with the Full Life Cycle of the Global Nickel Supply Chain.

Second Place: Richard Larson: The Influence of Microscale Heterogeneity of Sedimentary Rocks on CO2 Migration and Capillary Trapping in Geologic Carbon Sequestration.

LATE CAREER AWARD

First Place: Omar Alamoudi: Permeability and fracture evolution with confining pressure: an experimental study utilizing X-ray computed tomography and pulse-decay permeability measurements.

Second Place: Kyle Fouke: Assessing Complex Sea Level Instability and Environmental Change during the Last Interglacial: Insights from West Caicos, BWI.

BEST REPRESENTED RESEARCH GROUP

First Place: Cardenas Research Group

Second Place: Malkowski Research Group