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2012 Student Research Grant Recipients


The GCAGS Student Grant Committee received a total of 12 research proposals from 11 schools for the 2012 Program.  The GCAGS provided funding for 11 of the applicants.  The total of these awards is $14,700.00.

$2000.00 Research Grant Recipients

Thomas Hearon

Colorado School of Mines

Testing the Halokinetic Growth Sequence Model Adjacent to Allochthonous Salt Sheets and in Deepwater Depositional Settings: Flinders Ranges, South Australia and Northern Gulf of Mexico

Timothy Palmer

Millsaps College

Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating of Floodplain Sediment Near the Anomalous Straight Reach of the Big Black River, Mississippi

     

$1,500.00 Research Grant Recipients

Rajesh Dhungana

University of Alabama

Monitoring Seasonal Microclimate Variability in the DeSoto Caverns (Alabama, USA): Implications for Paleoclimate Reconstructions

Kevin Jones

Auburn University

Bioremediation of Arsenic-Contaminated Groundwater

Carey Lindsey

Mississippi State University

Geothermal in the Black Warrior Basin: Is Mississippi Really Hot?

Marianela Mercado-Burgos

University of Puerto Rico

Longterm Evidence of Solar Activity Variations in the Paleoclimate Record of Holocene Corals in Enriquillo Lake and Campech Bank Reefs

     

$1,000.00 Research Grant Recipients

Kathryn Denommee

Louisiana State University

Developing Recognition Criteria for Shelf Wave Current Gravity Sediment Flow Deposits

Zhiye Gao

University of Texas

Characterizing Pore Structure of Barnett Shale at Different Depths by Using Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry and Imbibition Experiments

Terry Lynn Harrell

University of Alabama

Biogeochemical analysis of the Vertebrate Fauna of the Late Cretaceous Formations of West Alabama

Chester Scotch

Texas A&M

Utilizing Temperature and Resistivity Data as a Way to Characterize Water and Solute Movement and Groundwater Interaction in Variably Saturated Porous Media

     

$700.00 Research Grant Recipients

Sunhronil Mondal

University of South Florida

Quantification of Predator-Prey Dynamics Across Plio-Pliestocene Mass Extinction Boundary in Florida


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