Awards List

December 12, 2023

Common Abbreviations

FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS

BILL AMBROSE
Pioneer Award, AAPG

SAHAR BAKHSHIAN
Outstanding Educator Award, JSG

THORSTEN BECKER
Augustus Love Medal, European Geosciences Union
Outstanding Researcher, UTIG

DONALD BLANKENSHIP
Director’s Circle of Excellence, UTIG

CAROLINE BRETON
Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

DAVID CARR
Best Paper, AAPG Southwest Section

GINNY CATANIA
Director’s Circle of Excellence, UTIG

YANGKANG CHEN
Winner, 2022 Earthquake Prediction AI Algorithm Competition, AETA

RICHARD CHUCHLA
Outstanding Educator Award, JSG

IAN DALZIEL
Polar Medal, United Kingdom
Career Award, UTIG

ROBIN DOMMISSE
GCAGS Journal President’s Award, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

SERGEY FOMEL
Winner, 2022 Earthquake Prediction AI Algorithm Competition, AETA
Audience Choice, EAGE Annual Hackathon, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

PETER FLEMINGS
Outstanding Research Award, JSG

JIM GARDNER
Knebel Undergraduate Teaching Award, EPS

JUN GE
Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

TIM GOUDGE
Community Award, JSG

STEPHEN GRAND
Inge Lehmann Medal, AGU

SEAN GULICK
Director’s Circle of Excellence, UTIG

SHUOSHUO HAN
Outstanding Researcher, UTIG

PETER HENNINGS
Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

LILY HORNE
Best Recent Publication Award, AAPG Petroleum Structure and Geomechanics Division

BRIAN HORTON
Best Paper in Interpretation Award, SEG

SEYYED HOSSEINI
Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

DINO HUANG
Winner, 2022 Earthquake Prediction AI Algorithm Competition, AETA

RICH KYLE
Hal Williams Hardinge Award, Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
AIME Mineral Industry Education Award, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers

STEPHEN LAUBACH
Joseph C. Walter Jr. Excellence Award, JSG

TIP MECKEL
Distinguished Lecturer, AAPG

KITTY MILLIKEN
Sidney Powers Memorial Award, AAPG
Robert H. Dott, Sr. Memorial Award, AAPG
Doris Malkin Curtis Medal, SEPM Gulf Coast Section

DAVID MOHRIG
Joseph C. Walter Jr. Excellence Award, JSG

SHARON MOSHER
Hall of Distinction, JSG

J.P. NICOT
Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

DEV NIYOGI
Helmut E. Landsberg Award, AMS

YUKO OKUMURA
Director’s Circle of Excellence, UTIG

CORNEL OLARIU
William R. Dickinson Award for Mid-Career Excellence in Sedimentary Geology, SEPM

CONNY RASMUSSEN
Outstanding Young Researcher, UTIG

DANIELLA REMPE
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER), NSF

STEPHEN C. RUPPEL*
Charles J. Mankin Memorial Award, Association of American State Geologists
*Deceased at time of award.

ALEXANDROS SAVVAIDIS
Winner, 2022 Earthquake Prediction AI Algorithm Competition, AETA

MRINAL SEN
Knebel Graduate Teaching Award, EPS

BRIDGET SCANLON
Rainmaker of the Year Award, BEG

JACK SHARP
Geology Dept. Alumni Achievement Award, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

KRISTA SODERLUND
Community Award, JSG
Director’s Circle of Excellence, UTIG

KATIE SMYE
Tinker Family Publication Award, BEG

JOHN SNEDDEN
Don R. Boyd Medal for Excellence in Gulf Coast Geology, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

LISA STOCKLI
Staff Service Award, EPS

ALEX SUN
Outstanding Research Award, JSGTop Cited Article, Water Resources Research

SCOTT TINKER
President’s Award, EnerGeo Alliance
Honorary Membership, Canadian Energy Geoscience Association
Boulos Lecture, Association of International Energy Negotiators

ALICE TURNER
Outstanding Student and PhD Candidate Presentation Award, European Geosciences Union

ADAM WOODHOUSE
Outstanding Postdoc, UTIG

PROMOTIONS

SHUVAJIT BHATTACHARYA
Research Scientist

ALEJANDRO CARDONA
Research Associate

MARC HESSE
Professor

ASHLEY MATHENY
Associate Professor

MARIA NIKOLINAKOU
Senior Research Scientist

DANIELLA REMPE
Associate Professor

KATHERINE ROMANAK
Senior Research Scientist

KATIE SMYE
Research Scientist

STUDENTS

JANA ALABDULLATIF
Runner-up, Master’s Saturday Best Talk, EPS

TAUFIK AL AMIN
Pak Chuck Caughey Graduate Fellowship, JSG

OMAR ALAMOUDI
First Place, Late Career Award, JSG Student Research Symposium

RAWAN ALASAD
William Dow Hamm Memorial Grant, AAPG Foundation

JONATHAN AMENDOLA
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, University of California, Santa Barbara

PATRICIA ASCANIO-PELLON
Master’s Saturday Best Talk, EPS

WADE AUBIN
1st Place Graduate Student, R.L. Folk/E.F. McBride Petrography Contest, EPS

WILL BAILEY
Most Cited Article in 2021-2022, Sedimentology (Wiley)
Chateaubriand Fellowship, Embassy of France in the United States

EMILY BAMBER
Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award, GSA
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Travel Grant, CPSH
Off Campus Research Award, JSG

LYNNA BENHAMOU
Biodiversity Scholars Award, UT College of Natural Sciences

SARAH BROOKER
Lipman Student Research Grants, GSA

MADISON CALLAN
Charlie and Eunice Haas Endowed Presidential Scholarship, UT
Austin Geological Society Scholarship, AGS
Texas Energy Council Scholarship, TEC
Honorable Mention, School of Undergraduate Studies Writing Flag Award, UT

MCKENZIE CARLSON
Donald D. Harrington Recruitment Fellowships, UT

COLE CARRABBA
Groundwater Field Methods Award – Undergraduate, EPS

KRISTIAN CHAN
Outstanding Graduate Student, UTIG
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG
Outstanding Student and PhD Candidate Presentation Award, European Geosciences Union

EDWARD CLENNETT
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Spring 2023, EPS
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG
Challenge Bowl World Champion, SEG

ETHAN CONRAD
Outstanding Graduate Student, UTIG
William R. Muehlberger Graduate Fellowship in Structural Geology/Tectonics, EPS
Best Graduate Student Paper, EPS
Challenge Bowl World Champion, SEG

SUSIE COOK
2nd Place Undergraduate Student, R.L. Folk/E.F. McBride Petrography Contest, EPS

NICOLE CZWAKIEL
GSEC Student Service Award, EPS

CAMERON DEFABRY
Groundwater Field Methods Award – Graduate, EPS

ARNAB DHARA
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG

JACQUELINE EPPERSON
Student Research Grant, SEPM

LUIS CARLOS ESCOBAR ARENAS
Norman H. Foster Memorial Scholarship, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Foundation
Student Research Grant, SEPM

KYLE FOUKE
Second Place, Late Career Award, JSG Student Research Symposium

HUDSON FINLEY DAVIS
Geophysical Society of Houston/Hugh Hardy Scholarship, SEG

REBEKAH GARZA
Second Place, Undergraduate Students, JSG Student Research Symposium

ERIC HIATT
GSEC Student Service Award, EPS
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Fall 2022, EPS
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG

SCARLETTE HSIA
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Fall 2022, EPS
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

CARA INGRAM
Geoscience IDEA Scholarship, Association for Women Geoscientists

SANDRA JUAREZ ZUNIGA
Don R. Boyd Memorial Grant, AAPG Foundation

MRITTIKA KABIR
EER Fellowship, JSG

HAZAL KIRIMLI
First Place, Early Career Award, JSG Student Research Symposium

RICHARD LARSON
Second Place, Early Career Award, JSG Student Research Symposium

GRACIELA LOPEZ CAMPOS
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG

RAYMOND LUONG
3rd Place Undergraduate Student, R.L. Folk/E.F. McBride Petrography Contest, EPS

CAROLINE MACKIN
Texas Energy Council Scholarship, TEC

JOSHUA MALONE
Meckel Family Named Grant, AAPG Foundation

JACOB MARGOSHES
First Place, Undergraduate Students, JSG Student Research Symposium

JOHN MORETTI
Lundelius Endowment in Vertebrate Paleontology, JSG
Science Fund Award, Cleveland Grotto
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA

EMILY MOORE
James and Ruth Harrison Scholarship, SEG

CARSON MILLER
Ewing-Worzel Graduate Fellowship, UTIG

IZZY MULLER
2nd Place Graduate Student, R.L. Folk/E.F. McBride Petrography Contest, EPS

JOSHUA MUNRO
College Recruitment Fellowship, UT

MARIEL NELSON
Reds Wolman Student Research Award, American Association of Geographers
Stanley A. Schumm Research Grant Award, GSA

WILL NGUYEN
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Spring 2023, EPS

ASHER PIERCE
Undergraduate Prize, Mineralogical Society of America
1st Place Undergraduate Student, R.L. Folk/E.F. McBride Petrography Contest, EPS

MEDHA PRAKASH
Wilbur A. Nelson Award, University of Virginia

SEBASTIAN RAMIRO-RAMIREZ
Runner-up, Best Graduate Student Paper, EPS

EVAN RAMOS
Runner-up, Best Graduate Student Paper, EPS

NICHOLAS REGIER
Off Campus Research Grant, JSG
Student Research Grant, SEPM
Arthur A. Meyerhoff Memorial Grant, AAPG Foundation

DANIEL RENOUARD
Texas Energy Council Scholarship, TEC

WILLIAM REYES
Lundelius Endowment in Vertebrate Paleontology, JSG
Endowed Presidential Scholarship, UT

ADDISON SAVAGE
Groundwater Field Methods Award – Graduate, EPS

KAITLIN SCHAIBLE
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, AGU

LOGAN SCHMIDT
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Spring 2023, EPS

KRISTIN SCOTT
Groundwater Field Methods Award – Undergraduate, EPS

SINJINI SINHA
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA
Student Research Grant, Paleontological Society
Off Campus Research Grant, JSG

MICHAEL SNOOK
Estwing Hammer Award, EPS

PATTY STANDRING
Veteran’s Memorial Scholarship, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Foundation
William V. Sliter Award, Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research
Graduate Student Research Grant, GSA

TRAVIS STONE
3rd Place Graduate Student, R.L. Folk/E.F. McBride Petrography Contest, EPS

CLAIRE WILLIAMS
Ruth Gates Fellowship, Honorable Mention, International Coral Reef Society
Student Travel Grant, Conservation Paleobiology Network

KAYLA WHITE
Dallas Geological Society Scholarship Endowment, Communities Foundation of Texas

MOLLY ZEBKER
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, AGU

TAO ZHANG
R.E. McAdams Memorial Grant, AAPG Foundation

STAFF

GALE ASHLEY
Staff Excellence Award, BEG

LAURA BURROWS
Staff Service Award, EPS

LUCIANO CORREA
Staff Service Award, EPS

MARCY DAVIS
Staff Excellence Award, JSG

JEFF HALLOCK
Staff Service Award, EPSStaff Excellence Award, JSG

JULI HENNINGS
Geosciences in the Media Award, AAPG

MONICA KORTSHA
Staff Service Award, EPS

JULIE LAKE
Staff Service Award, EPS

MONICA REED
Outstanding Service Award, JSG
Staff Service Award, EPS

CHRIS STELLA
Outstanding Service Award, JSG

TERA SHERRARD
Staff Service Award, EPS

SARA SIEBERATH
Outstanding Support Staff, UTIG
Outstanding Research Administrator Award, UT

CARLA THOMAS
Eleanor Picard Excellence Award, UTIG

KRISTEN TUCEK
Staff Service Award, EPS

NIKOLAS WHITE
Staff Service Award, EPS

JESSICA WOOLLARD-ADAIR
Outstanding Staff Award, EPS