19 BOONE PICKENS SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY Spotlight on Graduate Students Emma Shook MS Student Emma Shook is a second year MS student working under the supervision of Dr. Natascha Riedinger. Her research involves working on samples from Ocean Drilling Project (ODP) Leg 175. She is investigating changes in bottom water oxygen off the coast of Namibia in Africa using trace metal proxies. She received her BS degree in Geology from Oklahoma State University. She recently went to her first international geology conference: the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2023 in San Francisco. She is a Graduate Teaching Assistant who was the TA at the OSU geology field camp in Colorado. Emma is planning to graduate at the end of this Fall semester. Magnolia McLaughlin MS Student Magnolia McLaughlin is a first year graduate student working with Dr. Camelia Knapp and the Geophysics and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage group. She is working as a graduate research assistant with the Oklahoma Geological Survey to expand the state’s knowledge of reservoirs available and their potential for carbon storage. To do so, she is using core analysis, seismic inversion, spatial analysis, and anthropogenic impacts to the Arbuckle reservoir and non-Arbuckle reservoirs. Magnolia is joining the BPSoG after completing an internship with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the completion of her Master’s and Bachelor’s at Georgia State University.
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