4 Recognition and Awards Dr. John Bradford (left), President Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and Dr. Estella Atekwana receiving the 2016 SEG Outstanding Educator Award (photo courtesy, SEG). Dr. Claudia Mora (left), President Geological Society of America (GSA) and Dr. Estella Atekwana receiving the GSA Fellow (photo courtesy, GSA). Buddy Price (MS 2015): Awarded the A.I. Levorsen Award from AAPG for talk stemming from MS thesis. Advisor: Dr. Grammer Taylor Thompson (MS 2016): Awarded Best Poster Planalp Award from AAPG Mid‐ Continent for talk stemming from MS thesis. Advisor: Dr. Grammer Mercy Achang: Oklahoma Geological Foundation Davis, Foundation, Kate and Takken Fellowship, $5000. Advisor: Dr. Pashin Michelle Lutiker receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award and is currently pursuing a PhD and working with Dr. Natascha Riedinger to investigate uranium depletion in organic‐rich Devonian‐age shale and assist in determining depositional and diagenetic processes at work in ancient North American interior seaways. Mercy Achang: Society of Petrophysics and Well Log Analysis (SPWLA) Scholarship, 2016, $3000 Mercy Achang: US Science Support Program Travel Grant to the UK, $1500 Mercy Achang: National Association of Black Geoscientist (NABG), Award, $400 Georgina Lukoczki: Oklahoma Geological Foundation Davis Fellowship, $2500 Advisor: Dr. Gregg Ashley Dupont: 2016 AAPG Grants‐in‐Aid, $2500. Advisor: Dr. Grammer Aaron Prock: 2016 AAPG Grants‐in‐Aid, $3000. Advisor: Dr. Quan Yulun Wang: 2016 AAPG Grants‐in‐Aid, $2500. Advisor: Dr. Grammer Mchelle Lutiker: Tulsa Geological Society Foundation Outstanding Geoscience Student, $1500. Advisor: Dr. Riedinger PhD student Khemraj Shukla received the Best Graduate Student Poster Award at the 2016 XEDE (Extreme Engineering and Discovery Environment) conference. Khemraj is supervised by Dr. Priyank Jaiswal. Shawna Parks received the 2015‐2016 Best MS Thesis Award for her project titled: Remote sensing analysis and implications for groundwater resources in the Kharga Basin, Egypt and supervised by Dr. Jeffrey Byrnes. Her thesis manuscript was recently published in the Journal of African Earth Sciences. DEPARTMENT NEWS
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjAxMjk=