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studying the eagle ford shale acevedos first research experience at texas a&m was a summer research project with dr juan carlos laya assistant professor in the department of geology and geophysics we studied foraminifera along the eagle ford shale he said we were studying how they evolved basically through the cretaceous cenomanian-turonian boundaries because there was a lot of ash bed deposition during that time so we were seeing if the ash bed had any sort of correlation to more abundance in the foraminifera population in the eagle ford geology and geophysics department head dr mike pope supervised his second project it was also on the eagle ford shale but i was doing a geochemical analysis of the core so i used an x-ray florescence device which is kind of like a little gun and it would just shoot x-rays into the rock and it would show me exactly what the geochemistry was acevedo said we did this to see how the chemistry changed throughout the deposition of the eagle ford shale geology research on mars and geophysical studies of alaska taking a much broader scope on his third project acevedo and dr ryan ewing associate professor in the department of geology and geophysics researched sedimentary dunes in the north pole of mars i was just very interested in planetary geosciences so i went and i sought him out and i asked him if there was any sort of work he had for me he said he brought up this project that was basically tracking the dunes on the north pole of mars and how they were moving through a span of four earth years it was really fun! acevedos fourth project was a summer 2017 internship with a seismological research company iris and the missouri university of science and technology in rolla missouri all of the (iris) interns got sent out to different universities acevedo said our projects were seismologically based and focused on the work that each of the professors had we then presented our work at the american geophysical union (agu) conference in new orleans his resulting agu poster was titled seismic anisotropy beneath alaska constrained by shear wave splitting analysis i learned a lot throughout that project he said especially because it was more focused on the research i was going eight to five everyday just working on my research so it really got me into that mentality of what it is like to be a researcher that project was more geophysics-intense all of the other ones were geology based
acevedo with his research poster at agu 2017 (photo courtesy of acevedo)
moving forward after graduation after graduating from texas a&m this month acevedo will begin graduate school at the university of texas at austin where hell be researching groundwater resources and groundwater policy hes looking forward to building on the experience he gained in aggieland the professors there thought that all of my experience as an undergraduate really helped me get that position as a graduate student because it put me out there acevedo said i was doing work; i was going above and beyond what was expected i really enjoyed my time here and im very happy for this future opportunity he recommends undergraduate research and thinks that its a component of his education that set him apart from other students even if youre not planning on going to graduate school or getting a doctorate or anything like that you should still experience that research process of having a question and not knowing how to solve it then going through the literature talking to advisors talking to graduate students who are maybe working on this and putting out your own work doing the scientific process and presenting that research is very important his time at texas a&m was also positively shaped by his participation in the colombian student association texas a&m quidditch team and college of geosciences exchange program with the university of leicester in the spring of 2016 he said though acevedo is leaving aggieland he says that hell miss the community itself; the school is very close-knit i like the feeling of knowing that everybody here is willing to do anything for everybody else my brother is studying geology and i feel like he and i and everybody else in the geology and geosciences community we all kind of know each other we all have our own little tight-knit group of people were the smallest college at this school so its something to be proud of by catherine mccarthy '19
student research week 2018 was held march 19-23 at texas a&m university and several students from the college of geosciences were recognized with awards both undergraduate and graduate students competed in poster and oral presentation competition categories university-wide special awards: ace in higher education research award – undergraduate: hilario lumbreras iii 18 gis-t major title: campus map for blind and visually impaired students at texas a&m university college station faculty advisor: dr dan goldberg lumberas received this $500 award which honors the best emergent research in the area of diversity and inclusion issues in higher education it is designed to raise awareness and advance research on diversity and inclusion issues in higher education (accountability campus climate equity policy programming services role of technology student development etc) lumberas is also a member of the texas a&m corps of cadets he noted that josh fiedler '17 and ty crawford '18 also assisted in collecting the data for the project geosciences category awards: graduate poster first place: cesar castillo texas a&m department of geography phd student title: a coupled hydrologic-hydrodynamic model for assessing hydrologic surface connectivity between a river and its floodplainfaculty advisor: dr inci guneralp i plan to graduate in fall 2018 and my post-graduation plans include pursuing a post-doctoral or permanent position within a government or non-governmental organization that focuses on environmental science and management castillo said graduate poster second place: john schiff geography phd student title: stable isotopes in proteinaceous black coral skeletons as proxies for ecosystem variability in the gulf stream over millennial timescalesfaculty advisor: dr brendan roark schiff plans to graduate in may 2019 and then pursue public policy fellowships
cesar castillo and undergraduate researcher yair torres (left) preparing to conduct a bathymetric survey of a river channel (photo courtesy of cesar castillo)victoria ford and john schiff with their srw awards (photo courtesy of ford and schiff)
graduate oral first place: flavia bonolo dantas geography phd student title: public-private partnerships: the role of sabesp in the 2014 urban water crisis in são paulo brazilfaculty advisor: dr wendy jepson after completing her phd in 2021 she plans to continue doing research on water security from a political ecology perspective most importantly i wish that my work will contribute to a more just and equal division of burdens from environmental degradation and exploitation she said graduate oral second place: victoria ford geography phd student title: determination of a critical sea ice thickness threshold for the central arctic ocean advisor: dr oliver frauenfeld ford plans to complete her phd in spring 2020 and then work in the public sector
flavia bonolo dantas with her srw award (photo courtesy of flavia bonolo dantas)jessica martin conducting fieldwork in virginia using a magnetometer (photo courtesy of jessica martin)
undergraduate poster first place: hilario lumbreras iii 18 gis-t major (see beginning of this article for lumbreras' research information) undergraduate poster second place: kevin connally 18 gis-t minor title: trail trek: encouraging exercise through cooperative gameplayfaculty advisors: dr tracy hammond and teaching assistant puneet kohli connallys project involved the creation of an app named trail trek a team of six senior department of computer science and engineering students worked on its development and connally said he and all of his teammates will be entering the software development field upon graduation i am extremely excited about the potential of this project and i am so proud of what the team has accomplished already hammond said undergraduate oral first place: jessica martin '18 geology and geophysics major title: detection of buried anomalies using magnetics in lexington vafaculty advisor: dr mark everett martin's research projectwas funded by the geosciences dean's office high impact learning experiences program "this wouldn't have been possible without the fantastic support of the college " martin said the second author of the project poster and presentation was geophysics undergraduate student bassam alzayer she said martin's work on this research also recently won in the department of geology and geophysics' student research symposium poster contest undergraduate division "though it is my junior year i'm graduating a year early this may 2018 i have accepted a position as an environmental geologist in houston " she said
the trail trek app development team: bryce schumacher spencer harder dillon garner kevin connally nahiyan khandker nathan manickavasagam (photo courtesy of kevin connally)
ripples in the elatina formation in south australia (photo by: dr ryan ewing)
though the term snowball earth was first coined in 1992 and the science behind the hypothesis had existed for decades now for the first time scientists have geologic proof showing just how fast sea levels rose following the neoproterozoic snowball earth era as the planet thawed the snowball earth hypothesis states that the earth was covered with ice about 635 million years ago said dr ryan ewing professor in the department of geology and geophysics in the college of geosciences at texas a&m university who traveled with a team of researchers to south australia in july of 2014 for this study at the end of the snowball earth the ice sheets catastrophically melted because of a runaway greenhouse effect ewing said co2 build up during the snowball earth caused rapid warming and rapid melting of the ice sheets at the termination we knew that there was major sea level rise following the snowball earth but missing from the science was what was the rate of that sea level rise to answer that question a research team comprised of ewing dr paul m myrow professor in the department of geology at colorado college and dr michael p lamb division of geological and planetary sciences california institute of technology studied rocks in the elatina formation in south australia their resulting research rapid sea level rise in the aftermath of a neoproterozoic snowball earth was published in science recently funded by the national science foundation the project team successfully investigated and analyzed the first geologic evidence of sea-level-rise rates following the neoproterozoic snowball earth
dr ryan ewing professor in the department of geology and geophysics at texas a&mthe elatina formation in south australia (photo by: dr ryan ewing)
ewing and the team used paleohydraulic analysis of wave ripples and tidal laminae to investigate rocks in the elatina formation which were deposited at the end of the marinoan glaciation 635 million years ago the team investigated and measured the rock formation in australia and completed the calculations and analysis upon return to the us to calculate the rate of sea-level rise the team used the size of the ripples to estimate the size of the waves and in turn water depths the team found that the ripples remained about the same size throughout the formation which meant that water depths remained relatively constant during deposition these rocks were deposited during the deglaciation and are unique because they record daily tidal cycles meaning that they have preserved sedimentation from incoming and outgoing tides ewing said those layers of sedimentation provided a time-scale for the teams analysis showing that the calculated water depths of 9-16 meters remained nearly constant for about 100 years throughout 27 meters of sediment accumulation to accommodate that much sediment accumulating over a short amount of time about 27 meters of sediment accumulation over 100 years that requires a rate of sea-level rise of about one foot per year he said the teams proof of extraordinarily rapid rate of sea-level rise as their publication states validates a major tenant of the snowball earth hypothesis: that rapid deglaciation occurred during the early transition to a super-greenhouse climate its really the fastest rate of sea level rise thats ever been estimated on earth ewing said for reference its 100-times greater than current-day rates and 5-times greater than the fastest sea-level rise following the recent pleistocene glaciations the rocks analyzed in this study those deposited following the marinoan glaciation are found in only a handful of locations around the planet including the formation in south australia one of the interesting things about the snowball earth hypothesis is that you can find these rocks on every continent except antarctica which is why it is thought to be a global glaciation he said the rocks we studied in australia are also unique because they were deposited near the equator 635 million years ago and support evidence of glaciation at the equator this is rare and again makes the snowball earth hypothesis a realistic scenario for this time period by: leslie lee '09
the geology & geophysics graduate student council (gggsc) hosted their 11th annual student research symposium on march 22 2018 in the memorial student center every spring semester the leadership positions in the gggsc run a research symposium which includes oral presentations and poster presentations for both graduate students and undergraduate students in the department of geology & geophysics various undergraduate and graduate students not only present but volunteer at the symposium throughout the day faculty members and guest judges from various industries judge the presentations with a grading rubric that is then scored this year's symposium included a university writing center prize which was judged by faculty members on the student's ability to effectively communicate their research prizes for this year's symposium were the following: 1st: $50 2nd: artwork donated by kajal shah 3rd: t-shirt university writing center (uwc) prizes: $50
the 2018 annual gggsc research symposium winners for the four categories are listed below: undergraduate poster awards: 1st place: jessica martin & bassam alzayer detection of buried anomalies using magnetics 2nd place: juliet charbonneau controlled source electromagnetic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing: lateral wellbore effect 3rd place: juliet charbonneau alexander ferell & david splawn 2d trajectory analysis of permian carbonate ramp clinoforms last chance canyon new mexico masters poster awards: 1st place: kathie guerra ecohydrological analysis of soil moisture content using ert to determine the water uptake by trees in a floodplain in danciger tx 2nd place: telemachos manos thermal maturity modeling of organic-rich mudrocks in the delaware basin using raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material 3rd place: estefania ortiz deciphering equatorial pacific deep sea sediment transport regimes by core-log-seismic integration phd poster awards: 1st place: autumn eakin cement paragenesis as revealed by sem cathodoluminescence imaging in the permian spraberry and wolfcamp formations 2nd place: ibrahim al atwah molecular diamonds as a tool to understand petroleum migration in the anadarko basin oklahoma 3rd place: james teoh unravelling reflux dolomitization: why size and salinity matters oral presentation awards: 1st place: phillip tesch lateral variability of mixed carbonate-siliciclastic clinoforms in the permian upper san andres formation last chance canyon nm 2nd place: melly meyer high-resolution chemostratigraphy of the woodbine and eagle ford groups brazos basin texas 3rd place: kieron prince isotopic evidence for subaerial exposure and diagenesis of the miocene kardiva platform maldives --------------------------- uwc prizes: undergraduate poster winners:juliet charbonneau controlled source electromagnetic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing: lateral wellbore effectmichael morse integrating lithology and paleontology into seismic interpretation to support boundary identification in the gulf of alaska graduate poster winners:maya reimi neodymium isotope ratios in fish debris as a tracer for a low oxygen water mass in the equatorial pacific acrossjames teoh unravelling reflux dolomitization: why size and salinity matters oral presentation winners:tie between: bin luo three-dimensional earthquake cycle simulation on a rate- and state-dependent non-planar subduction plane kieron prince isotopic evidence for subaerial exposure and diagenesis of the miocene kardiva platform maldives
2018 symposium student winners (left to right): autumn eakin philipp tesch juliet charbonneau alexander ferell and james teoh (photo credit: cristina figueroa)
congratulations to all the winners of the 11th annual gggsc symposium! the gggsc would like to thank all of the presenters judges and volunteers that contributed to the symposium the gggsc is also very grateful for the generous support provided for the student research symposium by bhp billiton bp marathon oil chevron and a personal donation from sara donnelly to view the 2018 gggsc student research symposium technical program click here pictures of the event are found here written by: cristina figueroa
dr julia reece named an iodp ocean discovery lecturercongratulations to dr julia reece who was selected as an iodp ocean discovery lecturer!apr 16 2018congratulations to assistant professor in the department of geology and geophysics dr julia reece who was selected as an iodp ocean discovery lecturer for the 2018-2019 academic year! for each academic year six distinguished lecturers are selected to be a part of the ocean discovery lecturer series where each lecturer must give at least six lectures focusing on results of international ocean discovery program (iodp) research to academic research institutions museums and aquaria the united states science support program (usssp) funds the lecturer's transportation expenses to and from various institutions dr reece studies the hydromechanical behavior of marine sediments she was a schlander ocean drilling fellowship recipient and participated in two iodp expeditions (expeditions 308 and 322) dr reece plans to present results from investigations of early chemical and physical diagenesis using mudstones from the gulf of mexico (iodp expedition 308) and offshore japan (iodp expedition 322) during her lecture titled mud and bugs under stress: compression of marine sediments beneath the seafloor read more here: https://buffly/2uurpcu written by: cristina figueroa
congratulations to assistant professor in the department of geology and geophysics dr julia reece who was selected as an iodp ocean discovery lecturer for the 2018-2019 academic year! for each academic year six distinguished lecturers are selected to be a part of the ocean discovery lecturer series where each lecturer must give at least six lectures focusing on results of international ocean discovery program (iodp) research to academic research institutions museums and aquaria the united states science support program (usssp) funds the lecturer's transportation expenses to and from various institutions dr reece studies the hydromechanical behavior of marine sediments she was a schlander ocean drilling fellowship recipient and participated in two iodp expeditions (expeditions 308 and 322) dr reece plans to present results from investigations of early chemical and physical diagenesis using mudstones from the gulf of mexico (iodp expedition 308) and offshore japan (iodp expedition 322) during her lecture titled mud and bugs under stress: compression of marine sediments beneath the seafloor read more here: https://buffly/2uurpcu written by: cristina figueroa
2018 department picnicthe department celebrated the end of the year and honored faculty and graduate students for their achievements at the 2018 geology & geophysics department picnic apr 14 2018this april 14 at bee creek park the department celebrated the end of the year and honored faculty and graduate students for their achievements at the 2018 geology and geophysics department picnic faculty graduate students and guests enjoyed an afternoon at the park with various games and lunch faculty members awarded pins for their years of service to the department of geology and geophysics: dr ethan grossman – 35 years dr william lamb – 30 years dr fredrick chester – 20 years dr judith chester – 20 years dr richard gibson – 20 yearsdr ethan grossmandrs judi and fred chester with department head dr mike popethe department of geology and geophysics also presented graduate awards for achievements in research teaching and service these awards honor both a master student and a phd student in research teaching and service for a total of six awards students applied for the awards through an application which included the submission of a cover letter a cv and letter of support from a faculty and/or staff member a department committee composed of five professors of diverse ranks and disciplines reviewed all complete graduate student award applications and decided on the six recipients the following graduate students were awarded for this 2017-2018 academic year:service award:michelle chrpakathie guerra service award:*alexandra snellshayna quidas research award:*kewei chen (*not pictured)michelle chrpa with department head dr mike popeshayna quidas with graduate academic advisor trisha fikekathie guerra with department head dr mike popephotos of the event may be viewed here: txag/cxkafljwritten by: cristina figueroa ‘15 photos by: mariana figueroa ‘19
this april 14 at bee creek park the department celebrated the end of the year and honored faculty and graduate students for their achievements at the 2018 geology and geophysics department picnic faculty graduate students and guests enjoyed an afternoon at the park with various games and lunch faculty members awarded pins for their years of service to the department of geology and geophysics: dr ethan grossman – 35 years dr william lamb – 30 years dr fredrick chester – 20 years dr judith chester – 20 years dr richard gibson – 20 years
dr ethan grossmandrs judi and fred chester with department head dr mike pope
the department of geology and geophysics also presented graduate awards for achievements in research teaching and service these awards honor both a master student and a phd student in research teaching and service for a total of six awards students applied for the awards through an application which included the submission of a cover letter a cv and letter of support from a faculty and/or staff member a department committee composed of five professors of diverse ranks and disciplines reviewed all complete graduate student award applications and decided on the six recipients the following graduate students were awarded for this 2017-2018 academic year:service award:michelle chrpakathie guerra service award:*alexandra snellshayna quidas research award:*kewei chen (*not pictured)
michelle chrpa with department head dr mike popeshayna quidas with graduate academic advisor trisha fikekathie guerra with department head dr mike pope
photos of the event may be viewed here: txag/cxkafljwritten by: cristina figueroa ‘15 photos by: mariana figueroa ‘19