Student Research Symposium Awards
December 5, 2018
In February 2018, the Jackson School’s Graduate Student Executive Committee organized its 7th Annual Research Symposium. Winners and honorable mentions are as follows:
LATE-CAREER PH.D. STUDENT
1st Place: Alissa Kotowski: Length Scales and Types of Heterogeneities Along the Deep Subduction Interface: Insights from an Exhumed Subduction Complex on Syros Island, Greece
2nd Place: Sarah George: Testing Models of Orogenic Development in Ecuador: Multiproxy Provenance Analysis of the Hinterland Cuenca Basin
Honorable Mention: Rachel Bernard: Plagioclase-dominated Seismic Anisotropy in the Eastern Mojave Lower Crust
LATE-CAREER MASTER’S STUDENT
1st Place: Evelin Gutiérrez: Provenance and Geochronological Insights into Late Cretaceous Paleogene Foreland Basin Development in the Sub-Andean Zone and Oriente Basin of Ecuador
2nd Place: Sean Bader: Missing Well Log Data Interpolation and Semiautomatic Seismic Well Ties Using Data Matching Techniques
Honorable Mention: Scott Eckley: Honorable Mention: 3-D Textural and Geochemical Analyses on Carbonado Diamond: Insights from Pores and the Minerals Within Them
EARLY-CAREER GRADUATE STUDENT
1st Place: Brandon Shuck: Constraints on Mantle Dynamics During Jurassic Rifting in the ENAM Area from Seismic and Petrological Modeling of the Oldest Oceanic Crust
2nd Place: Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle: Rheological Properties and Heterogeneities Along the Down-Dip Extent of a Subduction Megathrust: Insights from the Condrey Mountain Schist, Northern California
Honorable Mention: Kelly Olsen: Development of a Shallow Decollement Along the South-Central Chile Margin from 2-D Seismic Reflection Data
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
1st Place: Sebastian Munoz: Heat Transport in the Streambed of a Large Regulated River
2nd Place: Elizabeth Davis: Pyroclastic Flows from Mount St. Helens: The Effects of Topography on Flow Behavior and Deposition on the Leeward Slope
Honorable Mention: Jordan Oefinger: Evidence of Possible Ocean Acidification at the Paleocene-Early Eocene Boundary Recorded in the Adriatic Carbonate Platform
BEST REPRESENTED RESEARCH GROUP
1st Place: Whitney Behr Research Group
2nd Place: Brian Horton Research Group