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Celebrate UTIG: Staff and Student Awards 2023

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. WE’RE THERE e Universi of Texas at Austin A BIG

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

    TANNER MILLS LORNA KEARNS ALICE TURNER ERIK FREDRICKSON NEW POSTDOCS
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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