Celebrate UTIG: Staff and Student Awards 2023

The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics celebrated its annual staff and students awards on May 19, 2023. Presented by UTIG director, Demian Saffer, the ceremony featured a review of the year, including recent 50th anniversary celebrations, new hires, research highlights and honors earned by UTIG staff and students.

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1. e Universi of Texas at Austin
   MAY 2023
   CELEBRATE UTIG
   STAFF AND STUDENT AWARDS
   

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2. WE’RE THERE
   e Universi of Texas at Austin
   A BIG MILESTONE! WE CELEBRATED 50 YEARS OF
   GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION
   AND DISCOVERY
   

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3. WE’RE THERE
   e Universi of Texas at Austin
   NEW RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
   Marine electromagnetic
   imaging
   Planetary
   Geodynamics &
   magnetism
   ERIC ATTIAS
   Oct. 2022
   DOUG HEMINGWAY
   Dec. 2022
   DANIELLE TOUMA
   Sep. 2023
   Climate science,
   cascading hazards
   

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4. WE’RE THERE
   e Universi of Texas at Austin
   DALLAS SHERMAN
   TANNER MILLS LORNA KEARNS
   ALICE TURNER
   ERIK FREDRICKSON
   NEW POSTDOCS
   

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5. WE’RE THERE
   e Universi of Texas at Austin
   Tim Urban
   Director
   Talia Jurgens
   Program
   Manager
   Longstanding NASA program
   focused on STEM
   engagement, outreach, and
   student programs
   Move to UTIG completed
   2022
   

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6. WE’RE THERE
   e Universi of Texas at Austin
   AWARDS WERE WON!
   KAITLIN SCHAIBLE
   AGU 2022
   Outstanding Student
   Presentation Award
   ARNAB DHARA
   IMAGE ‘22 Top
   Student Oral
   Paper
   DEMIAN SAFFER
   AGU 2022
   Francis Birch
   Lecture
   THORSTEN
   BECKER
   EGU 2023
   Augustus Love
   Medal
   ETHAN CONRAD &
   EDWARD CLENNETT
   SEG Challenge
   Bowl World Final
   2022
   IAN DALZIEL
   United Kingdom
   Polar Medal
   2023
   

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7. WE’RE THERE
   e Universi of Texas at Austin
   STUDENT RESEARCH
   Underwater Snow Gives Clues
   About Europa’s Icy Shell
   Astrobiology
   Natalie Wolfenbarger, Krista Soderlund, Donald
   Blankenship, et al.
   Ice Shell Structure and Composition of Ocean Worlds: Insights from
   Accreted Ice on Earth
   

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8. WE’RE THERE
   e Universi of Texas at Austin
   RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
   Climate Change Could Cause
   Mass Exodus of Tropical Plankton
   Nature
   Adam Woodhouse, Anshuman Swan, Chris Lowery. et al.
   Late Cenozoic cooling restructured global marine plankton
   communities
   

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9. WE’RE THERE
   e Universi of Texas at Austin
   RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
   Earthquake Scientists Have a
   New Tool in the Race to Find
   the Next Big One
   Science
   Srisharan Shreedharan, Demian Saffer, Laura Wallace, et al.
   Ultralow frictional healing explains recurring slow slip events
   

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10. WE’RE THERE
    e Universi of Texas at Austin
    STUDENT RESEARCH
    New Deep-Learning Technique
    Could be Breakthrough in Full
    Wave Inversion
    The Leading Edge
    Arnab Dhara & Mrinal Sen
    Physics-guided deep autoencoder to overcome the need for a
    starting model in full-waveform inversion
    

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11. WE’RE THERE
    e Universi of Texas at Austin
    STUDENT RESEARCH
    Study Reveals History of Gulf of
    Mexico Gas Hydrate Deposits
    Marine and Petroleum Geology
    Abby Varona, Peter Flemings, Alexey Portnov
    Hydrate-bearing sands in the Terrebonne Basin record the transition from ponded deposition to
    bypass in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico
    

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12. WE’RE THERE
    e Universi of Texas at Austin
    WE WERE IN THE NEWS!
    

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13. STAFF SERVICE AWARDS
    The University of Texas at Austin Staff Service Awards program
    celebrates and recognizes the contributions of committed staff
    who are responsible for transforming lives for the benefit of society.
    Jud Partin
    15 YEARS
    Ben Hester
    10 YEARS
    Scott Kempf
    30 YEARS
    Dan Duncan
    15 YEARS
    John Goff
    30 YEARS
    Kehua You
    10 YEARS
    

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14. UTIG AWARDS
    2023 AWARDEES
    

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15. DIRECTOR’S
    CIRCLE OF
    EXCELLENCE
    

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16. DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE
    YUKO OKUMURA
    DON BLANKENSHIP
    GINNY CATANIA
    SEAN GULICK
    KRISTA SODERLUND
    

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17. CAREER
    AWARD
    

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18. CAREER AWARD
    IAN DALZIEL
    

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19. OUTSTANDING
    GRADUATE
    STUDENT
    

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20. KRISTIAN CHAN
    OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENTS
    ETHAN CONRAD
    

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21. OUTSTANDING
    POSTDOC
    

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22. ADAM WOODHOUSE
    OUTSTANDING POSTDOC
    

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23. OUTSTANDING
    YOUNG
    RESEARCHER
    

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24. CONNY RASMUSSEN
    OUTSTANDING YOUNG RESEARCHER
    

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25. OUTSTANDING
    RESEARCHER(S)
    

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26. THORSTEN BECKER
    OUTSTANDING RESEARCHERS
    SHUOSHUO HAN
    

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27. OUTSTANDING
    SUPPORT
    STAFF
    

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28. SARA SIEBERATH
    OUTSTANDING SUPPORT STAFF
    

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29. ELEANOR
    PICARD
    AWARD
    

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30. CARLA THOMAS
    ELEANOR PICARD AWARD
    

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31. CONGRATULATIONS!
    NOW GO CELEBRATE!
    

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