Celebrate UTIG: Staff and Student Awards 2024

The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics recognized outstanding staff and students at its annual awards celebration, May 22, 2024. The awards were presented by UTIG Director, Demian Saffer, and were preceded by a review of the institute’s recent achievements. Learn more at https://ig.utexas.edu/

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1. e Universi of Texas at Austin MAY 2024 CELEBRATE UTIG STAFF AND STUDENT AWARDS
2. THEY’RE HERE e Universi of Texas at Austin NEW (& REFURBISHED) FACES Fixes things, right now TERRI MUIR April 2024 Chief Communications Officer, USS Texas Space Grant NINA MARTINEZ Feb. 2024 Ocean worlds, planetary habitability, space research policy ELIZABETH SPIERS Feb. 2023 Mainframes and whizz-bits RON O’NEILL June 2023 Sunshine and happiness, getting stuff done JJ DUPONT June 2023 Problem solving, multimeters, electrical tape DALLAS SHERMAN March 2024 Earthquake rupture experiments, machine learning CHAS BOLTON May 2024
3. THEY’RE ALSO HERE e Universi of Texas at Austin ABDO ELMELIEGY PERIANNE JOHNSON SHUAI YAN CHUANMING LIU NEW POSTDOCS KAIXUAN KANG SHUO ZHANG
4. WE WON THERE e Universi of Texas at Austin UTIG TRIUMPHS! ROB DOMEYKO AGU 2023 Outstanding Student Presentation Award ERIC HIATT NAGT Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2024 DEMIAN SAFFER Fellow of the American Geophysical Union JOHN SNEDDEN GCAG Don R. Boyd Medal for Excellence PETER FLEMINGS AAPG Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award MRINAL SEN SEG DISC Instructor 2024
5. WE’RE HERE e Universi of Texas at Austin A SEISMIC SHIFT FOR EARTHQUAKE SCIENCE! A new annual gathering of earthquake researchers from the U.S., Chile, Germany and Japan. FEBRUARY 14-16, 2024
6. WE’RE HERE e Universi of Texas at Austin APRIL 9-12, 2024. University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA A NEW WAVE OF GULF COAST SEA LEVEL RISE RESEARCH A week-long scientific workshop for experts from across Texas and the U.S.
7. THEY’RE HERE TOO e Universi of Texas at Austin
8. WE’RE THERE e Universi of Texas at Austin
9. WE’RE THERE e Universi of Texas at Austin Nathan Bangs Co-Chief Scientist AUGUST 2023. A UTIG-led seismic expedition to investigate seafloor spreading off the coast of Florida. EXPLORING THE BLAKE PLATEAU Sabrina Reichert Graduate Research Assistant, blog lead Harm Van Avendonk Chief Scientist
10. WE’RE THERE e Universi of Texas at Austin Charles Jackson Director Atmospheric Perils Modeling, Verisk Danielle Touma Research Assistant Professor Yuko Okumura Principal Investigator Investigation of Weather Extremes in a Super-Large Ensemble of CAM4 Simulations UTIG-VERISK RESEARCH COLLABORATION - 100,000-year atmospheric simulations - 2,500-member ensemble - Most comprehensive dataset of extreme weather occurrence Dunyu Liu Computational Geoscientist Geeta Persad Assistant Professor
11. WE’RE EVERYWHERE e Universi of Texas at Austin WE WERE ON THE TELLY!
12. 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. Sara Sieberath 15 YEARS Rosalind Gamble 20 YEARS Ron O’Neill 20 YEARS Tim Urban 25 YEARS Fran Peña 15 YEARS
13. UTIG AWARDS 2024 AWARDEES
14. DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE
15. DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE PETER FLEMINGS BRIAN HORTON ALEJANDRO CARDONA CYRIL GRIMA GINNY CATANIA
16. OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT
17. EDWARD CLENNETT OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENTS CARSON MILLER
18. OUTSTANDING POSTDOC
19. ALICE TURNER OUTSTANDING POSTDOC
20. OUTSTANDING YOUNG RESEARCHER
21. KEHUA YOU OUTSTANDING YOUNG RESEARCHER
22. OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER
23. KRISTA SODERLUND OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER
24. OUTSTANDING SUPPORT STAFF
25. ANGELA REYES OUTSTANDING SUPPORT STAFF
26. ELEANOR PICARD AWARD
27. DANIEL DUNCAN ELEANOR PICARD AWARD
28. CONGRATULATIONS! NOW GO CELEBRATE!