Congratulations to the Geology & Geophysics Student Winners at the 2018 GGGSC Research Symposium

Congratulations to all the Geology & Geophysics students who won an award at the 11th Annual GGGSC Research Symposium!

Apr 20, 2018

The Geology & Geophysics Graduate Student Council (GGGSC) hosted their 11th annual Student Research Symposium on March 22, 2018 in the Memorial Student Center. Every spring semester, the leadership positions in the GGGSC run a research symposium which includes oral presentations and poster presentations for both graduate students and undergraduate students in the Department of Geology & Geophysics. Various undergraduate and graduate students not only present, but volunteer at the symposium throughout the day. Faculty members and guest judges from various industries, judge the presentations with a grading rubric that is then scored. This year's symposium included a University Writing Center prize, which was judged by faculty members on the student's ability to effectively communicate their research.

Prizes for this year's symposium were the following:

1st: $50

2nd: Artwork donated by Kajal Shah

3rd: T-Shirt

University Writing Center (UWC) Prizes: $50

The 2018 Annual GGGSC Research Symposium winners for the four categories are listed below:

Undergraduate Poster Awards:

1st Place: Jessica Martin & Bassam Alzayer, Detection of Buried Anomalies Using Magnetics

2nd Place: Juliet Charbonneau, Controlled Source Electromagnetic Monitoring of Hydraulic Fracturing: Lateral Wellbore Effect

3rd Place: Juliet Charbonneau, Alexander Ferell & David Splawn, 2D Trajectory Analysis of Permian Carbonate Ramp Clinoforms, Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico

Masters Poster Awards:

1st Place: Kathie Guerra, Ecohydrological Analysis of Soil Moisture Content Using ERT to Determine the Water Uptake by Trees in a Floodplain in Danciger, TX

2nd Place: Telemachos Manos, Thermal Maturity Modeling of Organic-Rich Mudrocks in the Delaware Basin using Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Material

3rd Place: Estefania Ortiz, Deciphering Equatorial Pacific Deep Sea Sediment Transport Regimes by Core-Log-Seismic Integration

Ph.D. Poster Awards:

1st Place: Autumn Eakin, Cement Paragenesis as Revealed by SEM Cathodoluminescence imaging in the Permian Spraberry and Wolfcamp Formations

2nd Place: Ibrahim Al Atwah, Molecular Diamonds as a Tool to Understand Petroleum Migration in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

3rd Place: James Teoh, Unravelling Reflux Dolomitization: Why Size and Salinity Matters

Oral Presentation Awards:

1st Place: Phillip Tesch, Lateral Variability of Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Clinoforms in the Permian Upper San Andres Formation, Last Chance Canyon, NM

2nd Place: Melly Meyer, High-Resolution Chemostratigraphy of the Woodbine and Eagle Ford Groups, Brazos Basin, Texas

3rd Place: Kieron Prince, Isotopic Evidence for Subaerial Exposure and Diagenesis of the Miocene Kardiva Platform, Maldives

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UWC Prizes:

Undergraduate Poster Winners:
Juliet Charbonneau, Controlled Source Electromagnetic Monitoring of Hydraulic Fracturing: Lateral Wellbore Effect
Michael Morse, Integrating Lithology and Paleontology into Seismic Interpretation to Support Boundary Identification in the Gulf of Alaska

Graduate Poster Winners:
Maya Reimi, Neodymium Isotope Ratios in Fish Debris as a Tracer for a Low Oxygen Water Mass in the Equatorial Pacific Across
James Teoh, Unravelling Reflux Dolomitization: Why Size and Salinity Matters

Oral Presentation Winners:
Tie between:
Bin Luo, Three-Dimensional Earthquake Cycle Simulation on a Rate- and State-Dependent Non-Planar Subduction Plane
Kieron Prince, Isotopic Evidence for Subaerial Exposure and Diagenesis of the Miocene Kardiva Platform, Maldives

2018 Symposium Student Winners (left to right): Autumn Eakin, Philipp Tesch, Juliet Charbonneau, Alexander Ferell, and James Teoh. (Photo Credit: Cristina Figueroa)

Congratulations to all the winners of the 11th Annual GGGSC Symposium!

The GGGSC would like to thank all of the presenters, judges, and volunteers that contributed to the symposium.

The GGGSC is also very grateful for the generous support provided for the Student Research Symposium by BHP Billiton, BP, Marathon Oil, Chevron, and a personal donation from Sara Donnelly.

To view the 2018 GGGSC Student Research Symposium Technical Program, click here.

Pictures of the event are found here.

Written By: Cristina Figueroa