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the american association for the advancement of science (aaas) has named dr ethan l grossman professor and holder of the michel t halbouty chair in the department of geology and geophysics in texas a&m universitys college of geosciences an aaas fellow a total of six texas a&m faculty-researchers were named among aaas fellows for 2018 all 416 new aaas fellows were selected in recognition of their extraordinary achievements in advancing science said aaas formed in 1848 aaas is the worlds largest multidisciplinary scientific society with members in more than 91 nations the diverse accomplishments of these six researchers represent the enormous range of the texas a&m research enterprise said dr mark a barteau texas a&m vice president for research as a university we thank the aaas for recognizing their tremendous contributions which have advanced the role of science in the world while demonstrating texas a&ms mission to solve societys most challenging problems grossman was honored for distinguished contributions to the field of isotope geochemistry and paleoceanography particularly for leadership in deep-time oxygen isotope stratigraphy and paleothermometry he is a renowned expert in stable isotope geochemistry global change and paleoclimates grossman was officially inducted as an aaas fellow at a ceremony on during its annual meeting feb 16 in washington dc with its six new fellows texas a&m has 51 aaas fellows among its current faculty by leslie lee 09
decades of aggies who graduated from the texas a&m university department of geology and geophysics will tell you the same story: field camp was a turning point in their lives field camp was where the foundation of their career began field camp was where they transformed from an inexperienced student into a future geologist in the summer of 1974 bill thomas 75 was a junior geology major beginning his summer field camp experiences excited to spend weeks adventuring through outcrops and hiking along mountain ridges in colorado and far west texas with aggie students and professors today he is the chief executive officer of eog resources and a leading pioneer of shale oil and gas exploration and he and his wife jane have established the jane e 76 and bill r thomas 75 field experience excellence endowment the $25 million endowment will support of texas a&ms field camp as part of the comprehensive field-based education operated by the department of geology and geophysics in the college of geosciences on-going funding from bill and jane thomas for the next several years will eventually bring the gift to more than $3 million the gift supports the universitys lead by example campaign a fundraising effort to raise $4 billion in support of texas a&m students faculty colleges and programs by 2020 this gift will transform the life and career of every one of our majors im at a loss to express how deeply bill and jane inspire me and i am so grateful for the friendship that we have developed said dean of the college of geosciences dr debbie thomas at the heart of their visionary gift is equity of opportunity ensuring that all of our geology majors experience field camp and ensuring that the department is able to offer this experience in perpetuity
a life-changing experience i really clearly remember field camp bill thomas said field camp was the biggest learning experience for me and it had the biggest impact on me actually learning geology you could actually see the rocks and see the structure and stratigraphy and then you mapped it im a visual person and that was an incredibly meaningful experience this incredible gift will provide support to geology and geophysics students enrolled in the summer field geology (geol 350) course and its required 3-week field camp experience and the endowment will also support additional multi-day field experiences in several other geology courses every single student in the department therefore will directly benefit from the thomas familys gift field camp was so pivotal in bills life jane thomas said texas a&m provided the opportunities for him to be where he is now im hoping that this endowment keeps field camp alive and healthy for decades to come bill said the goal of each field camp is for students to solidify their understanding of basic concepts and to utilize field techniques to create geologic interpretations for a variety of geologic locations students spend each day completing various geologic maps stratigraphic columns cross-sections and geologic interpretations all led by faculty mentors and all these years later bill still remembers the impact of that in-field mentoring time at field camp you got to interact with the faculty more and on a one-on-one basis because youre walking around looking at this looking at that and you had more time to talk he said they asked us good thought-provoking questions to make us think currently the department usually operates two summer field camps each year with a total of about 100 students each summer one is held in montana where students stay on the campus of montana western in dillon and the other is a traveling field camp covering sites in new mexico utah and montana this years montana field camp was led by dr brent miller and dr alfonso benavides-iglesias and the traveling field camp was led by dr andreas kronenberg
bill thomas '75 (photo courtesy of eog resources)dr brent miller leading field camp in montana in may 2019 (photo by robyn blackmon)
beginning an aggie family legacy for jane thomas her journey to texas a&m started at an aggie football game in the fall of 1973 then jane vanderslice she began her college career attending baylor university but came to visit texas a&m one weekend with a friend after one football game she was hooked on aggieland and the aggie spirit everyone there was down to earth hard-working regular salt of the earth people she said she quickly transferred to texas a&m and was officially an aggie education major by the following spring jane and bill were both involved in the baptist student union (now baptist student ministry) met that spring and later began dating our bsu girls intramural football team won first place that year his bsu boys team got second she teasingly recalled like many aggies today they stayed busy playing intramural sports volunteering in campus ministries and studying one difference between campus in 1974 and campus today was student access to a certain football field they probably dont let it happen now bill said but i remember going with some of my geology buddies and playing touch football on kyle field! we were ripping up and down throwing the ball and it was just open! i would love to go back and do it all again it was such a great experience
montana etten-bohm outside of the eller oceanography and meteorology building (photo courtesy of montana etten-bohm)etten-bohm introduces agsc invited speaker dr andrew gettelman at a department seminar (photo courtesy of montana etten-bohm)
after earning a degree in earth system science in 2016 from the university of alabama in huntsville(uah) montana etten-bohm was looking for a fulfilling graduate school program though she considered several schools etten-bohm ultimately chose texas a&m largely due to her advisor dr courtney schumacher schumachers research aligned with her own interests and etten-bohm also felt that she could get along with her on both a professional level and a personal one etten-bohm said she first became interested in meteorology after a series of weather events hit close to home hurricane ivan in 2004 and the major tornadic outbreak of april 27 2011 both impacted her and her home as a child she also cites her father as a large part of her inspiration to study meteorology because he had a lot of passion for the subject and would teach (her) whenever given the opportunity now a third-year graduate student in the texas a&m department of atmospheric sciences etten-bohm has been greatly involved with research and growth within the department in the past year she has been a graduate coordinator for meso18-19 a noaa funded national field campaign as part of the verification of the origins of rotation in tornadoes experiment in the southeast (vortex-se) that she was also involved in as an undergraduate student while at uah
etten-bohm working on the recruitment committee at ams in phoenix az this past january (photo courtesy of montana etten-bohm)etten-bohm and a peer watch data coming in from balloon launch in near storm environment of franklin tornado (photo courtesy of montana etten-bohm)
she currently serves as the president of the atmospheric sciences graduate council (asgc) the representative body of graduate students and has been active in implementing changes to help students succeed at the graduate level additionally etten-bohm has been an integral part of the departments recruitment efforts helping attract top-tier candidates to its graduate program the primary focus for her masters research that she completed in december of 2018 was how lightning relates to the large-scale environment the research that she is continuing into her phd investigates how we can predict lightning on a global scale in global climate models using parameters factors like cape wind shear and humidity she said in addition to this research her phd will have an educational component seeking to enhance the teaching of fundamental weather and forecasting skills in undergraduate meteorology courses
students visiting the american meteorological conference in phoenix arizona in january (photo courtesy of montana etten-bohm)dr courtney schumachers group at their annual holiday banquet (photo courtesy of montana etten-bohm)
teaching the next generation following graduation etten-bohm hopes to apply her graduate teaching experiences as an instructional professor in the atmospheric sciences while also incorporating research in the classroom she believes that this integrated approach will help foster a well-rounded generation of future meteorologists recently awarded the teaching-as-research (tar) fellowshipthrough the center for the integration of research teaching and learningetten-bohm is already getting a jump start on accomplishing this goal this year-long program allows students pursuing careers in furthering stem education with the ability to implement and advance teaching practices with this fellowship and the advisement of dr don conlee she will investigate the success of active learning techniques in introductory meteorology classes by amanda hoth 21
nick perez receives nsf career awardwith prestigious award perez will research mountain building and provide students with international high-impact learning experiencesjun 18 2019dr nick perez assistant professor in the department of geology and geophysics at texas a&m university was recently awarded a prestigious career award from the national science foundation (nsf) the faculty early career development (career) program offers nsf's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their organization perezs project is titled merging geoscience research and education to investigate convergent margin deformation and improve spatio-temporal problem solving in stem education despite their societal and environmental impact the development of mountain ranges remains enigmatic wrote perez in the project proposal this project is focused on reconstructing the age location and amount of deformation that formed the southern peruvian andes this location is representative of other mountain ranges that form between converging oceanic and continental tectonic plates allowing this work to advance the global understanding of mountain building perez research will use field mapping cross-section construction geochronology bedrock and detrital thermochronology kinematic reconstruction and virtual outcrop models to constrain the timing position and magnitude of crustal shortening accumulated across the southern peruvian andes since the cretaceous period the highly prestigious nsf career award is a beautiful testament to dr perez vision and creativity as an early-career thought leader said dean of the texas a&m college of geosciences dr debbie thomas we are thrilled that the potential impact of dr perezs proposed science and education work has gained the recognition of his discipline with the resulting new dataset on the temporal and spatial patterns of deformation and mountain building perez plans to assess how the upper plate responds to changes in subduction zone processes the discrepancies between measurements of crustal strain at geologic and modern time frames and how crustal deformation thickening and surface uplift are linked in time and space a stratigraphic section in southern peru (photo credit: dr nick perez)a new global tectonics course for texas a&m undergraduate and graduate students will be developed as a result of this project and it will include an international field research experience in the research area in southern peru this high-impact learning experience will link tectonics resources hazards and human impacts helping students understand issues with global dimensions the research project will also produce new open-access geoscience course modules for high school undergraduate and graduate students learn more about perez by leslie lee 09
dr nick perez assistant professor in the department of geology and geophysics at texas a&m university was recently awarded a prestigious career award from the national science foundation (nsf) the faculty early career development (career) program offers nsf's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their organization perezs project is titled merging geoscience research and education to investigate convergent margin deformation and improve spatio-temporal problem solving in stem education despite their societal and environmental impact the development of mountain ranges remains enigmatic wrote perez in the project proposal this project is focused on reconstructing the age location and amount of deformation that formed the southern peruvian andes this location is representative of other mountain ranges that form between converging oceanic and continental tectonic plates allowing this work to advance the global understanding of mountain building perez research will use field mapping cross-section construction geochronology bedrock and detrital thermochronology kinematic reconstruction and virtual outcrop models to constrain the timing position and magnitude of crustal shortening accumulated across the southern peruvian andes since the cretaceous period the highly prestigious nsf career award is a beautiful testament to dr perez vision and creativity as an early-career thought leader said dean of the texas a&m college of geosciences dr debbie thomas we are thrilled that the potential impact of dr perezs proposed science and education work has gained the recognition of his discipline with the resulting new dataset on the temporal and spatial patterns of deformation and mountain building perez plans to assess how the upper plate responds to changes in subduction zone processes the discrepancies between measurements of crustal strain at geologic and modern time frames and how crustal deformation thickening and surface uplift are linked in time and space
a new global tectonics course for texas a&m undergraduate and graduate students will be developed as a result of this project and it will include an international field research experience in the research area in southern peru this high-impact learning experience will link tectonics resources hazards and human impacts helping students understand issues with global dimensions the research project will also produce new open-access geoscience course modules for high school undergraduate and graduate students learn more about perez by leslie lee 09
moon behind the tamu aggie doppler radar (tamu-adrad) (photo courtesy of stephen thomas)
stephen thomas 22 spent his freshman year at texas a&m university pursuing two passions: science and photography when he wasn't studying for coursework in the texas a&m college of geosciences he was shooting unique photos on campus and across texas thomas is minoring in meteorology in the department of atmospheric sciences and majoring in recreation park and tourism sciences in april he captured a unique image of the moon behind the o&m buildings tamu aggie doppler radar (tamu-adrad) like a fish drawn to texas a&m growing up thomas always had a passion for the ocean he said he was fascinated by its depth and mystery i would visit my grandparents on the coast and loved to stay out on the water he said while applying to schools across texas he noticed there was only one school with an oceanography undergraduate program and that was texas a&m i realized that texas a&m as the only college in texas that offered oceanography as a major and that was perfect because a&m had always been my dream school along with being the only school with a major in oceanography thomas was interested in texas a&m because the college offered a multitude of clubs for geosciences majors some highlights of my freshman year have included joining clubs like tamu ocean and tamscams (texas a&m student chapter of the american meteorology society) which have given me opportunities to meet new people within my major and exploring around the bryan-college station area at night
entry to campus looking at the administration building at texas a&m (photo courtesy of stephen thomas)david g eller oceanography and meteorology building (photo courtesy of stephen thomas)
capturing the perfect picture like a true aggie thomas enjoys the history of texas a&ms campus its really cool to see pictures of aggieland from decades ago and to see how things change because campus is constantly changing he said i really like photographing the o&m building because its the tallest building on campus and i think its unique trying to capture the true beauty of the campus at night can prove to be a challenge some campus lights need to remain turned on for safety reasons this can make night photography more difficult if you are looking to do astrophotography taking photos of the stars galaxies and nebulae then it is very challenging because of all the light pollution from campus and bcs thats all in the fun of it if it were easy then it wouldnt be as adventurous he said "i taught myself night photography junior year of high school he said after school i would go home and spend hours online looking up papers and videos on how to do astrophotography and long exposure thomas loves photography because it allows him to escape from the stresses of school it gives me time to think and clear my mind because unlike most daytime photography you don't get the image back in a second; each picture can take from 10 seconds to 5 minutes to process he said view more of thomas photography work by rachel swindell 19
scientists recover remotely operated vehicle rov hercules at the greens canyon underwater oil seep (photo by susan poulton)scott sofolofsky (background) and gisr pi chip breier (foreground) work in the rov control room on the e/v nautilus
students assist in preparing equipment for sampling on the r/v brooks mccall during an experiment mimicking a deep spilla tabs buoy in the gulf of mexico (photo courtesy of gerg)
monitoring the gulf 24/7 texas a&m gerg part of the college of geosciences has a series of moorings and buoys along the texas coast that has been operational for 20 years and provides crucial data to agencies and communities in texas this technology helps largely in providing information on winds waves and currents that can be used specifically for oil spill tracking chapman said these moorings and buoys help scientists and everyday citizens track where water is flowing from and where it is expected to go data collected from gerg-operated moorings and buoys contributed to the new model from this research we now know a lot more about the circulation in the gulf of mexico and the ecology of the gulf than we did beforehand chapman said and since theyre circulation models they are improving our knowledge of how the gulf works physically and chemically by amanda hoth 21
klein conducting antarctic research aboard nsf shipdiving in never-before dived sites scientists are investigating declining macroalgae communitiesmay 17 2019researchers on the expedition diving and looking up at a penguin (photo courtesy of dr aaron galloway)a researcher on the expedition diving and collecting samples (photo courtesy of dr aaron galloway)in early april researchers departed for antarctica from punta arenas chile for a two-month research cruise aboard the r/v laurence m gould a national science foundation (nsf) vessel dr andrew klein professor in the department of geography and eog teaching professor in geosciences is on board and serving as a co-pi of the project funded by a $880 000 nsf grant the project is investigating brown macroalgae in the northern portion of the western antarctic peninsula (wap) region brown macroalgae form extensive undersea forests in the northern part of the wap and provide both physical structure and energy sources in shallow water communities reduced ice coverage caused by climate change in the southern wap over the past 30 to 50 years have affected macroalgal communities according to the researchers to assess these impacts the research team is documenting the macroalgal communities and testing hypotheses about the cause and consequences of the alterations to them many of the sites that the team has dived along the antarctic peninsula have never been diving sites before it has been an adventure " said klein who is no stranger to the antarctic - having completed 17 previous research trips to the continent you can read updates on kleins island to ice facebook page for his perspectives during the cruise and follow along with the team's national geographic blog for a behind-the-scenes look at their dives research and experiences the team is led by university of alabama-birminghams dr charles amsler and dr jim mcclintock along with co-pis klein dr katrin iken university of alaska fairbanks and dr aaron galloway university of oregon by leslie lee 09
researchers on the expedition diving and looking up at a penguin (photo courtesy of dr aaron galloway)a researcher on the expedition diving and collecting samples (photo courtesy of dr aaron galloway)
in early april researchers departed for antarctica from punta arenas chile for a two-month research cruise aboard the r/v laurence m gould a national science foundation (nsf) vessel dr andrew klein professor in the department of geography and eog teaching professor in geosciences is on board and serving as a co-pi of the project funded by a $880 000 nsf grant the project is investigating brown macroalgae in the northern portion of the western antarctic peninsula (wap) region brown macroalgae form extensive undersea forests in the northern part of the wap and provide both physical structure and energy sources in shallow water communities reduced ice coverage caused by climate change in the southern wap over the past 30 to 50 years have affected macroalgal communities according to the researchers to assess these impacts the research team is documenting the macroalgal communities and testing hypotheses about the cause and consequences of the alterations to them many of the sites that the team has dived along the antarctic peninsula have never been diving sites before it has been an adventure " said klein who is no stranger to the antarctic - having completed 17 previous research trips to the continent you can read updates on kleins island to ice facebook page for his perspectives during the cruise and follow along with the team's national geographic blog for a behind-the-scenes look at their dives research and experiences the team is led by university of alabama-birminghams dr charles amsler and dr jim mcclintock along with co-pis klein dr katrin iken university of alaska fairbanks and dr aaron galloway university of oregon by leslie lee 09