2009 Student Research Grant Recipients
During 2009, the Student Grant Committee received applications for 26 research proposals (12 Doctorate, 10 Masters, and 4 Bachelors) from 17 colleges and universities. The committee, consisting of Danny W. Harrelson (Chairman), John Marble, and Tom Mcgehee, reviewed proposals from the students and made recommendations for funding 18 projects. The recommendations were approved by the Board of Directors at the GCAGS Mid-Year Meeting in April and a total of $25,500.00 was granted to the awardees. The student grant recipients, their topic/school and individual awards are listed below.
| $2000.00 Research Grant Recipients | ||
|---|---|---|
Amy Spaziani |
Louisiana State University |
Geological History of an Inner Shelf Shoal and
Nearshore in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico:
Geological and Physical Factors |
Clint Edrington |
Louisiana State University |
Remnants of an Early Mississippi River Delta Complex:
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Depositional
History |
Julie Richey |
University of South Florida |
Late Holocene Climate Variability: A Multiproxy
Approach for Assessing Ocean-Continent Linkages
from Gulf of Mexico Sediments |
Matt Tinley |
Univ. of Louisiana – Lafayette |
A Probalistic Approach to Determine and Describe
the Electro-Magnetic Response of Offshore Louisiana
Reservoirs using 3D |
$1,500.00 Research Grant Recipients |
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Hunter Berch |
Millsap's College |
Nutrient Loading and Hydrocarbon Assessment of
Urban Storm-Water Runoff, Jackson, MS |
Mary Ellison |
University of New Orleans |
Evaluating the Role of Facies Architecture in Deltaic
Headland Models of Transgressive Submergence
and Barrier Island Evolution |
Ian Floyd |
Univ. of Southern Mississippi |
Evaluation of Natural Remediation following the
Occurrence of a Construction-Related Sediment
Plume at CSTS, Mississippi |
Elisha Hughes |
Univ. of Texas – Arlington |
Chemostratigraphy and Thin Section Petrography of
the Smithwick Formation, Fort Worth Basin, San
Saba County, TX |
Constantin Platon |
University of Alabama |
Implication of La Popa Salt Weld Evolution as Recorded
by the Shallow Marine Deposits of Viento
Formation |
$1,000.00 Research Grant Recipients |
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Jennifer Coor |
Florida State University |
The Effects of Sea-Life Rise and Storm Intensity on
Florida Shorelines |
Erin Fort |
University of South Alabama |
Assessment of Exposed Peat Layer and Stumps... |
Shari Hilding-Kronforst |
Texas A&M University |
A High Resolution Middle Eocene Isotopic Record
from the Western... |
Thomas Lovell |
University of Alabama |
Provenance and Paleography of the Late Jurassic
Norphlet Formation: An Approach using Detrital
Zircon Geochronology |
Vishal Maharat |
University of Texas – Austin |
Development and Fill of Minibasins under Conditions
of Mobile... |
Neupane Ghanashyam |
University of Alabama |
Competitive Adsorption/Desorption of Arsenate/Phosphate on Iron-Oxyhydroxide and its Implications
on Precipitation of Arsenate |
Stephan Secrest |
Baylor University |
Analysis of Calcite-Filled Faults, Balcones Trend
near Waco, Texas |
James Thomka |
Auburn University |
Genesis of a Pennsylvanian Crinoid |
Ziming, Yue |
University of Alabama |
Mechanism of As(III) - As(V) Conversion in Soil
Vadose Zone |
$500 Research Grant Recipients |
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William Hawkins |
Millsaps College |
Alluvium Characteristics of Pelahatchie Creek and
Pelahatchie Bay—Ross Barnett Reservoir, Jackson,
Mississippi |
James Burnes |
Lamar University |
Texas Eocene Gulf Coast: The Alamo for North
American Primates |