12 This past year has been a big one for me! In March I was hired to join the full-time faculty as a Teaching Assistant Professor for online education. My primary teaching responsibilities are the service level courses (Geology and Human Affairs, Physical Geology, Evolution of the Earth) where I get to interact with the non-geology student body and spread the good word of the geosciences. Over the summer I began my role as an instructor at the Les Huston Geology Field Camp, just in time to celebrate the 75th anniversary and Dr. Puckette’s “retirement.” Teaching at the field camp is such a great experience and I can’t wait to get back to Grape Creek this summer. This spring semester is a busy one as I am finishing up my Ph.D. for a May graduation and teaching 400 students across three classes. A hectic time, but nowhere else I would rather be! More Faculty News TRENITY FORD TEACHING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Instructor at Les Huston Geology Field Camp This year, we celebrated the graduation of our first Accelerated MS student, Izabelle Buentello (featured in the Recent Graduate Spotlight), whose thesis focused on the Caney Shale in the Ardmore Basin. In addition to DOE funding, Izabelle secured over $14,000 in research grants, stipends, and scholarships from AAPG, OERB, OGF, RMAG, Core Lab, and Halliburton. In Fall 2024, as part of GEOL 6363: Advanced Carbonates, Dr. Buddy Price (Devon Energy), Brandon Spencer, and I led a multi-day field trip to the Guadalupe Mountains—an iconic location showcasing seismicto-reservoir scale carbonate variability. Eight students presented posters in the field, and five students from Dr. Jack Pashin’s Basin Analysis course joined us. Nearly all costs were covered by Dr. Price, Devon, and the Chesapeake Energy Chair Fund. Looking ahead, we plan to integrate a Paradox Basin field trip into GEOL 5363: Carbonate Depositional Systems with an optional GEOL 5990 course for additional student participation. MICHAEL GRAMMER REGENTS PROFESSOR Chesapeake Energy Chair of Petroleum Geology: Carbonate Sed/ Strat and Reservoir Characterization spring.2025
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