Winners of Spring 2024 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Awards
April 24, 2024
Dozens of undergraduate students, graduate students, professors and staff members of the Jackson School’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences were recognized on Tuesday, April 23 for their exceptional work and achievements over the course of the semester.
Winners were awarded based on nominations from students and/or peers. The Best Graduate Paper award was decided by a committee, based on peer nominations of recently published work. The Petrography Contest winners were decided based on their ability to correctly describe and classify rocks in a timed test. Congratulations to the nominees and winners of each category!
Estwing Hammer Award
First Place: Vanessa Weber
Runner up: Susan Cook
EPS Staff Excellence Award
Jennifer Raymond
EPS Staff Service Awards
10 Years of Service: Ned Vizy, Brian Zavala, David Edy
20 Years of Service: Yi Jin Shi, Desmond Patterson, Staci Loewy
Graduate Student Executive Committee Student Service Award
Carson Miller
Jackson School of Geosciences Best Graduate Paper
First Place: Paul Morris, “Fluvial-style migration controls autogenic aggradation in submarine channels: Joshua Channel, eastern Gulf of Mexico.” Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Runners Up: Russell Miller, Landon Lockhart, Qiqi Wang
Groundwater Field Methods Award: Undergraduate
Xander Kelly
Summer Montoya
Groundwater Field Methods Award: Graduate
Berit Hudson Rasmussen
Knebel Teaching Award: Intro Course
Matt Malkowski and Kyle Spikes, GEO 416S: Earth and Planetary Processes Through Time
Knebel Teaching Award: Undergraduate Upper Division
Rowan Martindale, GEO 405: Life Through Time
Knebel Teaching Award: Graduate
Danny Stockli, GEO 338T/339T: Marine / Coastal Tectonics
Knebel Teaching Award: Teaching Innovation
Geeta Persad, GEO 387P: Climate System Physics
Knebel Teaching Award: Field/Experiential Education
Bayani Cardenas, GEO 376L: Field Methods in Hydrology
Petrography Contest, Graduate Students
First Place: Claudiu Nistor
Second Place: Izzy Muller
Third Place: Quinn Johnson
Petrography Contest, Undergraduate Students
First Place: Angelica Reyes
Second Place: Collin Hoffman
Third Place: Sawyer Parker
Masters Friday Best Speaker
First Place: Nick Regier, “Paleozoic Basin Evolution during Tectonic and Climatic Transitions in the Eastern Precordillera of Argentina”
Second Place: Daphne Smith, “The Impact of Drought on Root-Zone Water Storage Dynamics in Fractured Carbonate Bedrock of the Edwards Plateau”
Best PhD Talk: Fall 2022
Naoma McCall
Best PhD Talk: Spring 2023
Rodrigo Correa
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: Fall
Sage Turek
Madison Preece
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: Spring
Nick Regier
Ebony Williams
