2015 Student Research Grant Recipients

The GCAGS Student Grant Committee received 27 research proposals from students at 14 universities. The committee evaluated the proposals and recommended various funding levels for 16 of the 27 proposals. The total of these recommended awards is $20,000.00.

$2000.00 Research Grant Recipients

Name	School	Topic
Kathleen Kingry	University of Alabama	Characterization of Past Jet Stream Variations in the Gulf Coast Region by Isotope Analysis of a Stalagmite from Cathedral Caverns, AL
Sajjad Abdullajintakam	Texas A&M Corpus-Christi	Hydrocarbon Source Evaluation at Cold Seeps in Southern Gulf of Mexico
Daniel A. Montiel Martin	University of Alabama	Investigating the Significance of Submarine Groundwater Discharge as a Potential Nutrient Source along the Alabama Coast
Kory Wiley	West Virginia University	Provence of the Wood River Formation of Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Insights from U–Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology and Well Logs

$1,500.00 Research Grant Recipients

Name	School	Topic
Nicholas R. Loundagin	Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette	Geophysical Character of Structural and Depositional Features of the Mississippi Embayment in Northwest Mississippi
Peng Shang	University of Alabama	Towards a Mechanistic Understanding on the Effects of Agriculture on Stream Water Dissolved Organic Matter: Considerations from Soil-to- Stream Hydrological Paths
Yiduo A. Liu	University of Houston	Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution along the Northern Gulf of Mexico Region during the Late Cretaceous
Michael Shields	University of Florida	The Organic Carbon Burial Potential of Young Mississippi River Subdeltas

$1,000.00 Research Grant Recipients

Name	School	Topic
Mohit Agrawal	Baylor University	Receiver Functions and Surface Wave Dispersion Modeling of Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath Texas Gulf Coast
Abiola Olabode	Louisiana State University	Diagenesis and Formation Stress in Fracture Conductivity of Shaly Rocks: Experimental-Modelling Approach in CO2– Rich Interactions
Mitchell McMillian	University of West Florida	Predicting Stream Bank Erosion in Northern Gulf coast: Improving Practical Methods
Christopher K. Hendrix	University of Texas, Austin	A Core Based Chemo-Stratigraphic Study of Upper Cretaceous Buda Limestone and Austin Chalk, South Texas, USA

$500.00 Research Grant Recipients

Name	School	Topic
Rachelle Thomason	University of New Orleans	Marsh Platform Response in Biloxi Marshes Due to Meteorological Forcing
Lauren Redmond	University of Texas–Austin	An Integrated Lithofacies and Chemofacies Investigation to Define Stratal Architecture and Paleooceanographic Conditions of the Mississippian Barnett Formation in the Southern Fort Worth Basin of North-Central Texas
Daniel N. Merritt	Mississippi State University	Rapid Analysis of Suspended Sediment Concentration from MODIS Imagery in Grand Bay, Gulf of Mexico
Michael Neito	University of Texas, Austin	Core Based Chemo-Stratigraphy and Tephrochronologic Record of Cenomanian-Turonian, Eagle Ford, South Texas, USA

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