Winners Announced for Poster Session at Annual Sheriff Lecture


Winners Announced for Poster Session at Annual Sheriff Lecture
Fifty Students Participated in Poster Session

Fifty EAS graduate and undergraduate students competed in a judged poster session held prior to the 2014 Annual Robert Sheriff lecture. A group of 10 faculty members judged the posters and announced these winners in three categories:

Senior Ph.D. Student Award:
Dustin VillarrealDustin Villarreal ($1,000 prize)
Ph.D. Geology
Advisor: Robinson
“Detrital Zircon Study of the Pamir Mountains, Central Asia”

First-Year Ph.D. Student Award:
Jingjing ZongJingjing Zong ($750 prize)
Ph.D. Geophysics
Advisor: Stewart
“Elastic Properties of Salt: Ultrasonic Lab Experiments, Numerical Modeling, Well Log Analysis, and Seismic Survey”

Undergraduate and First-Year M.S. Award:
Shenelle GomezShenelle Gomez ($500 prize)
Will Begin Ph.D. in January 2015
“Tectonic Evolution and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of the Tobago Forearc Basin, Barbados Ridge, and Barbados Accretionary Prism”