2011 Student Research Grant Recipients
During 2011, the Student Grant Committee received applications for 19 research proposals from 13 colleges and universities. The committee, consisting of Danny W. Harrelson (Chairman), John Marble, Terry Panhorst, and Tom McGehee, reviewed proposals from the students and made recommendations for funding 16 projects. The recommendations were approved by the Board of Directors at the GCAGS mid-year meeting in April and a total of $22,500.00 was granted to the awardees. The student grant recipients, their school and topic, and individual awards are listed below.
$2000.00 Research Grant Recipients |
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Nicole Biller |
University of Florida |
Source of terrestrial material delivered to the Gulf of Mexico during Melt Water Pulse 1A |
Andrew Fleming |
University of Southern Mississippi |
Sedimentary and morphology of estuarine fluviotidal marshes and channels of the north-central Gulf Coast |
Sonnet Gomes |
Auburn University |
Sequence stratigraphy of the Pottsville Formation, Cahaba Basin, AL: Interaction of glacio-eustatic change and tectonics during Lower Pennsylvanian |
Michael Rasmussen |
University of Southern Mississippi |
Hillslope hydrology and erosion associated with clear-cut logging in southeast Mississippi |
Pascual Tabares |
Auburn University |
Drill-core and geophysical investigation of the western crystalline rim of Wetumpka Impact Structure, Alabama |
$1,500.00 Research Grant Recipients |
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Susanna Blair |
University of Florida |
Determination of atmospheric and local inputs of trace metals to Florida lakes |
Aina Eyitayo |
Mississippi State University |
Evolution of occlusion of porosity in the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Sligo Formation, Shelf Edge Reef, South Texas |
Rajesh Dhungana |
University of Alabama |
Gulf coastal rainfall variability over the past 2000 years: Acquisition of a high-resolution stalagmite record for Desota Caverns (AL, USA) |
Scott Tipple |
Louisiana State University |
A 3D numerical model of saline-water flow through the Edwards Aquifer, TX |
$1,000.00 Research Grant Recipients |
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Theodore Donovan |
University of Alabama |
Quantifying the effects of supercritical CO2 injection in the Citronelle Oil Field |
Richard Dolly |
University of Mississippi |
Function of riparian wetlands in the containment of contaminants |
Jessica Little |
University of Tulsa |
Linking source to reservoir using hydrous pyrolysis and diagnostic organic sulfur signatures in the Austin Chalk Formation |
Tacoma Morrissey |
University of Alabama |
Fluid geochemistry of Blount Springs (Blount County, Alabama): Implications for residential microbial communities |
Michael Natter |
Auburn University |
Geochemical effects and processes from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf Coast wetland sediments |
Elizabeth Williams |
Tulane University |
The effect of increased salinity on carbon-cycling in coastal Louisiana wetland sediments |
$500.00 Research Grant Recipients |
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Andrez Aguilar |
Millsaps College |
Seismic investigation of the Bliss Creek Lineament in the Big Black River Valley, west-central Mississippi |