19 4. PI/PD Pashin. Commercial Scale CO2 Injection and Optimization of Storage Capacity in the Southeastern United States. Advanced Resources International through Southern Company and the U.S. Sponsor: Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory. $39,425. 5. PI/PD Jaiswal, R. Vaidyanathan (OSU-Tulsa). A physical test model based on stress-shadowing to optimize drilling operations during fracking. Sponsor: Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST). $90,000. 6. PI/PD Jaiswal. Oklahoma State - Sponsor: Halliburton Geoscience Ambassador Program, Halliburton Inc. $20,000 7. PI/PD P. Jaiswal. Structural and Stratigraphic controls on methane hydrate occurrence and distribution: Gulf of Mexico, Walker ridge 313 and green canyon 955. Sponsor: US Department of Energy. $300,000. 8. PI/PD P. Carroll, B. Danilowicz; co-PI’s S. Marks, K. Baum, T. Wikel, J. Angle, J. Utley, P. Jordan, T. Ivey, J. Mintmire, J. Donoghue, A. Noell, J. Gelder, L. Mantini, D. Recker. UTeach at Oklahoma State University. Sponsor: Hughes Medical Institute. $1,450,000. 9. PI/PD Es Atekwana and Gamal Abdel Aal. Use of SIP for Long-term In-situ Monitoring of Contaminant Stability. Sponsor: Savannah River National Lab PI/PDs: $145,000. 10. PI/PD Abdelsalam. Magnetic Studies of Overlapping Rift Systems: Insight from Afar, Ethiopia. Sponsor: Statoil. Amount: $269,000 11. PI/PD Abdelsalam. Comprehensive Analysis of Broadband Seismic Data Recorded in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Sponsor: Statoil. Amount: $68,855 12. PI/PD Abdelsalam. Integrated Studies of Early Stages of Continental Extension: From Incipient (Okavango) to Young (Malawi) Rifts. Sponsor: NSF. Amount: $18,943 13. PI/PD Abdelsalam. Four-dimensional Anatomy of Continental Rifts. Statoil. Amount: $51,961 SPOTLIGHT ON STUDENTS PHD STUDENT HIGHLIGHT BETH VANDEN BERG By Dr. M. Grammer Dissertation Topic: Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy and Petrophysics Beth Vanden Berg examining core samples. Beth is beginning her second year in the Ph.D. program here at OSU, having transferred last January from Western Michigan University. Her Ph.D. research is directed towards a better understanding of the genesis and evolution of carbonate pore systems and how they influence reservoir permeability by combining carbonate sequence stratigraphy with the development of micro- to nano-scale pore systems in unconventional carbonate reservoirs. Beth was awarded both a BS degree in Geology and a BA in History and Archeology from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a M.Sc. from Clemson University. Beth’s Masters research was focused on providing a comprehensive overview of the geologic, environmental and anthropogenic impacts of a key watershed valley in the West Bank, Palestine/Israel, during which time she did research at Lebanon American University (LAU) and the American University of Beirut (AUB), in addition to that done at Clemson. After graduating from Clemson, Beth worked for 7 years as an environmental consultant, project manager and hydrogeologist on multiple projects throughout the southeast, east and mid-west of the United States. During this time, Beth earned multiple awards for project performance and teamwork from the firms of both Haley and Aldrich, Inc. and Brown and Caldwell. Before and during her M.Sc. work at Clemson, Beth spent quite a bit of time visiting and working in Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria, and lived for a time in Umm el Jimal village and Amman, Jordan; Jerusalem, Israel; a village near Ramallah, Palestine; and in Beirut, Lebanon. This experience has provided Beth with a unique background in cultural and professional diversity that explains why she is such as asset to many of the international graduate students here in the Boone Pickens School of Geology. Beth has already received significant recognition for her Ph.D. work as indicated by her recent selection as one of 3 Ph.D. students nominated from the worldwide carbonate community who are chosen to organize and moderate the SEPM/AAPG Carbonate Research Group Meetings at the Annual AAPG/ACE meetings. Beth published her M.Sc. research in a Special Publication on the Lower Jordan River Basin and has presented 9 papers to date at professional conferences (AAPG and GSA), including 4 so far from the first year and a half of her dissertation research. Beth is a member of AAPG, SEPM), AIPG and the Tulsa Geological Society, and is a licensed Professional Geologist in the State of Georgia. Beth’s career goal is to be a “petroleum geologist and key team member with a midlarge size oil and gas company. When she is not working on her Ph.D. research (which is increasingly rare!!!), Beth can be found pursuing some of her other interests in cooking, gardening and landscaping, or teaching Zumba. MS STUDENT HIGHLIGHT SCOTT MEIER By Dr. Eliot Atekwana MS Thesis topic: Investigating processes that control the chemistry during refilling of Lake Ngami in semiarid northwest Botswana
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