Celebrate UTIG: Staff and Student Awards 2022

The annual University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Staff and Student Awards, was presented May 17, 2017. Presented by UTIG director, Demian Saffer, the ceremony featured a review of the year, including new hires, recent retirements, research highlights and the achievements of UTIG staff and students.

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1. MAY 2022 CELEBRATE UTIG STAFF AND STUDENT AWARDS
2. WE’RE THERE WE SAID HELLO TO NEW COLLEAGUES Daphné Lemasquerier Jingxuan Wei Adam Woodhouse Chas Bolton Chris Gerekos Benjamin Keisling OUR LATEST GRADUATE STUDENT COHORT Enze Zhang Joe Sanchez Addison Savage Danqi Jiang COLLEAGUE IN TRAINING Remy Donghyun Kolstad Kim Xiaohua ’Eric’ Xu Phyllis Gesch Jessica Pai Kevin Shionalyn Kaitlin Schaible Shuhua Hu Charles Babendreier
3. WE’RE THERE AND CELEBRATED THOSE WHO WENT ON TO SOMETHING NEW… Gail Christeson Adrien Arnulf Craig Fulthorpe Steffen Saustrup John Snedden* John Gerboc* LESSER-SPOTTED GERBOC *for these, something = more UTIG!
4. WE’RE THERE WE WERE BACK IN PERSON!
5. WE’RE THERE WE ACTUALLY TRAVELLED TO #AGU21… …AND #LPSC2022!
6. WE’RE THERE WE WERE IN THE FIELD pointing at things…
7. WE’RE THERE ALSO, IN THE FIELD… Our Admin Staff Learned to Science! Next lesson, how to point like a scientist…
8. WE’RE THERE WE STARTED BOLD NEW COLLABORATIONS • “Submersibles in the icy deep” (Ginny Catania) • “COLDEX, Earth’s Oldest Ice” (Duncan Young) • “City of Austin Lakes” (Marcy Davis) • “MTMOD Megathrust Modeling” (Thorsten Becker)
9. WE’RE THERE WE WON AWARDS DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award Andrew Gase SEPM Doris Malkin Curtis Medal John Snedden Best Graduate Student Paper Kevin Meazell Best MSc Student Presentation Abby Varona Best PhD Student Presentation Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez Gulf Coast SEG Challenge Bowl Ethan Conrad & Edward Clennett STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM First Place Late Career PhD Ethan Conrad Second Place Early Career Grad Patricia Standring Second Place Late Career Masters Abby Varona
10. WE’RE THERE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Unprecedented Imaging of an Earthquake Fault Upper-plate controls on subduction zone geometry, hydration and earthquake behaviour Adrien Arnulf et al. Nature Geoscience
11. WE’RE THERE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS A new look at Martian ‘groundwater’ reflection The Basal Detectability of an Ice-Covered Mars by MARSIS Cyril Grima et al. Geophysical Research Letters
12. WE’RE THERE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS ENSO Patterns in Ancient Climate Variability Unraveling forced responses of extreme El Niño variability over the Holocene Allison Lawman, Jud Partin, Terry Quinn et al. Science Advances
13. WE’RE THERE STUDENT RESEARCH Peter Miller finds anisotropy, not fluids, source of low seismicity in subduction zones P- and S-Wave Velocities of Exhumed Metasediments From the Alaskan Subduction Zone: Implications for the In Situ Conditions Along the Megathrust Peter Miller, Demian Saffer, et al. Geophysical Research Letters
14. WE’RE THERE STUDENT RESEARCH Shuai Yan leads discovery of subglacial Antarctic climate record A newly discovered subglacial lake in East Antarctica likely hosts a valuable sedimentary record of ice and climate change Shuai Yan, Don Blankenship, Duncan Young, et al. Geology
15. WE’RE THERE STUDENT RESEARCH Brandon Shuck solves subduction initiation mystery Stress transition from horizontal to vertical forces during subduction initiation Brandon Shuck, Sean Gulick, Harm Van Avendonk, et al. Nature Geoscience
16. WE’RE THERE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS AAPG Special Bulletin Second Volume Gas hydrates in Green Canyon Block 955, deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Part II, Insights and future challenges Peter Flemings & Researchers, Staff and Students of the UT GOM2 Project
17. WE’RE THERE WE WERE ON TV! (mostly KXAN News)
18. 40 YEARS Mark Wiederspahn The University of Texas at Austin Staff Service Awards Program recognizes the importance of the contributions of loyal and committed staff to the continuing success of the university. STAFF SERVICE AWARDS Donald Blankenship 30 YEARS Harm Van Avendonk 20 YEARS Athma Bhandari 10 YEARS Cyril Grima 10 YEARS John Snedden 10 YEARS Krista Soderlund 10 YEARS Yuko Okumura 10 YEARS Marcy Davis 20 YEARS Nathan Bangs 30 YEARS
19. UTIG AWARDS 2022 AWARDEES
20. DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE
21. Peter Flemings Laura Wallace Thorsten Becker Chris Lowery Sean Gulick Director's Circle of Excellence
22. CAREER AWARD
23. Mark Wiederspahn Career Award
24. OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT
25. Shuai Yan Outstanding Graduate Student Simone Puel
26. OUTSTANDING SUPPORT STAFF
27. Angela Reyes Jesse Houghton Outstanding Support Staff
28. OUTSTANDING POSTDOC
29. Enze Zhang Outstanding Postdoc
30. OUTSTANDING YOUNG RESEARCHER
31. Xiaohua ‘Eric’ Xu Outstanding Young Researcher
32. OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER
33. Donald Blankenship Outstanding Research Award
34. ELEANOR PICARD EXCELLENCE AWARD
35. Ben Hester Eleanor Picard Excellence Award
36. CONGRATULATIONS! NOW GO EAT!