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Martha Lou Broussard '57 is a recipient of the 2007 Meritorious Service Award
Martha Lou Broussard has shown decades of dedication to the students and faculty of Rice's Department of Earth Science. She was the first woman to graduate from what was then the Rice Geology Department, and after a successful career in the oil industry, she joined the department in 1983 as department coordinator. Martha Lou officially retired from Rice in 1989, but has been the volunteer alumni coordinator since that time. She organizes events across the country when alumni gather for professional conferences, and has organized two festivals in honor of retiring faculty which attracted alumni and other geologists from around the world to come to Rice. Additionally, she was responsible for many of the arrangements for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Earth Science Department, as well as supporting smaller department events each year. Every year Martha Lou performs innumerable tasks that help keep countless alumni connected to Rice and to each other.
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Micah Nicolo is one of the 2006-2007 Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellows
Joint Oceanographic Institutionsí U.S. Science Support Program associated with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is pleased to announce the 2006-2007 Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellows. Micah Nicolo's research proposal title is: "Eolian grain-size records across the Paleocene-Eocene transition: Constraints on atmospheric circulation during global climate change"
For more abount the Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowhip: Click Here.
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Professor John Anderson warns the bay changes could come sooner rather than later.
KUHF news article January 4, 2007
By: Jack Williams
A Rice University researcher says upstream, man-made dams and rising seas could lead to significant bay flooding along the Gulf Coast, including Galveston Bay. As Houston Public Radio's Jack Williams reports, professor John Anderson warns the bay changes could come sooner rather than later. [Read] [Listen]
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Peter Vail Named Two-Time Cambridge Who’s Who Professional of the Year in Stratigraphy and Seismic Interpretation
Peter R. Vail, Ph.D. named Professional of the Year in Stratigraphy and Seismic Interpretation for the Oil and Gas Industry by Cambridge Who’s Who
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Peter R. Vail, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Rice University’s Earth Science Department, was named Professional of the Year in Stratigraphy and Seismic Interpretation for the Oil and Gas Industry by Cambridge Who’s Who for 2006-2007, the second year Vail has been thus honored. The Cambridge Who’s Who selection committee hand picks these special honorees based on accomplishments, academic achievement, leadership, and service. [more]
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Ulyana Horodyskyj is the 2006-2007 Houston Geological Society's Undergraduate Scholarship Recipient
John A. Adamick, VP Business Development, TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company L.P., and chair of the HGS Undergraduate Scholarship Foundation announced that the Houston Geological Society Undergraduate Scholarship Foundation has chosen Ulyana Horodyskyj to receive a $1,750 scholarship for the 2006-2007 academic year. The Houston Geological Society scholarship provides financial support for applicants in their endeavor towards a career in geosciences.
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Earth Science faculty members Dale Sawyer and Alison Henning's efforts to help Fifth Ward residents preserve and document the history of Evergreen Negro Cemetery was featured on NPR's KUHF-FM [KUHF link] over the Thanksgiving weekend. The project involves the participation of undergraduates in Dale's GIS class this fall as well as the participation of HISD teachers both this summer and in a course taught by Alison this fall. Dale and Alison's work will also be featured in the Nov. 30 issue of Rice News.
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Ulyana Horodyskyj recipient of the 2006 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference Travel Grant
Congratulations to Earth Science Undergraduate, Ulyana Horodyskyj.....she was featured this week in a Rice News article which described her recent accomplishments. She presented a poster on volcanoes at GSA (this poster was also featured at the Rice sponsored Sally Ride Science Festival)); this past summer she gave an oral presentation at the Goldschmidt Conference in Melbourne, Australia. But the article did not mention that Ulyana received a 2006 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference Travel Grant for Graduate Students sponsored by NSF through the Geochemical Society ($1000): 39 students chosen and names published in "The Geochemical News" and "Elements" magazine (both in October 2006).
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The Department of Earth Science Receives Gift from ExxonMobil |
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On October 24, 2006 ExxonMobil came to campus to present the check. From Left to Right: Bill Barron, Exxon recruiting consultant and Rice graduate '79; Matt Tenny, engineering Ph.D. recruiting ExxonMobil; Rice Graduate student Maria Guedez, recently accepted a position with Exxon; Associate Professor Julia Morgan, has a project with ExxonMobil titled, "Particle Dynamics Simulations to Investigate Mechanical Behavior and Evolution of Geologic Structures for Petroleum Exploration." and Richard Holmes, Drilling New Technology, Engineering Team Captain for Rice and Completions Manager ExxonMobil Development Company
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John Anderson is the recipient of the 2007 Francis P. Shepard Medal from the SEPM.
The Francis P. Shepard Medal for Marine Geology is awarded in recognition of "Excellence in Marine Geology." Nominees for the medal will be persons who have a sustained record of outstanding research contributions to Marine Geology (e.g. the distribution and characterization of modern sediments, marine geomorphology, or the structure of continental margins) or to other significant aspects of Marine Geology, such as geophysics, geobiology, and geochemistry, providing there is a clear link to marine sedimentation. The recognition is not to be limited to members of the Society or other professional organizations, nor to citizens of any one country. Recipients of the Shepard Medal are eligible as later nominees for the Twenhofel Medal.
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Alan Levander wins Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists (affiliated with GeoForshungsZentrum Potsdam)
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants awards to internationally acknowledged scientists from abroad in recognition of their achievements in research to date. The Humboldt Research Award provides funds for research in Germany for 6 months to a year. Dr. Levander will be in residence at the GFZ Potsdam from August-October 2006 and April-September 2007.
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Dr. John Anderson to The Houston Chronicle
"What I am afraid of is that people living there will one day look back and wonder why, if scientists knew changes were occurring to the island, that they didn't do anything about it." - Dr. John Anderson (Houston Chronicle, January 6, 2006)
Lessons of the past / As Galveston Island subsides and sea levels rise,
civic and business leaders must confront the effects of climate change
before disaster strikes. [PDF]
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Dr. Cin-Ty Lee awarded 2005 Packard Fellowship
In 1988, the Foundation established the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the nation's most promising professors to pursue science and engineering research early in their careers with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements. Every year, the Foundation invites the presidents of 50 universities to nominate two professors each from their institutions. Nominations are reviewed by an Advisory Panel of distinguished scientists and engineers, which in 2005 will select 16 Fellows to receive individual awards of $625,000, payable over five consecutive years.
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Fenglin Niu recently traveled to Parkfield, California, to gather data for an experiment which is part of an Earthscope project entitled "Developing a methodology for imaging stress transients at seismogenic depth".
The photos show the deployment of a very powerful piezoelectric source and an Wilcoxon accelerometer in the SAFOD (The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth) pilot and main holes to detect trivial variations in seismic attributes induced by the time-varying stress field that controls the nucleation and sequencing of seismic events.
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Adrian Lenardic was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa 2005 Teaching Prize. The Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize is awarded each year to the most outstanding assistant professor at Rice University based on faculty review of student evaluations.
Dr. Lenardic also received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. The award will fund both research and education projects to be carried out by Lenardic's group from 2005-2010. |
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Peter R. Vail was awarded the 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science for his pioneering and innovative ideas for using seismic reflections to identify sequences of subsurface rock layers, greatly enhancing exploration for oil-containing rock. He also recognized that similar changes in the rock record appear worldwide and can be attributed to global changes in sea level, thus contributing to greater understanding of the earth's geological history. photos
Dr. Vail is the 2005 Hollis D. Hedberg Award Recipient awarded by the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University for his numerous and significant contributions to research in the energy industry, and for his longtime commitment to education and academic research. Link |
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Andreas Lüttge received his promotion of tenure to the rank of Associate Professor of Earth Science.
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Christina Dicus won 2nd place in the Natural Science category of the 4th annual Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium for her poster entitled: Anaerobic oxidation of methane and the formation of carbonate concretions above an active gas hydrate system: Peru Margin Ocean Drilling Program Site 1230.
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James Walker was one of the student delegates to the INNOVATE 2005 Symposium in Singapore and Tokyo to present on issues of technology and business leadership in Asia. He has been named recipient of the Peregrine Scholarship for study abroad.
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Earth Science Students Interviewed by KHOU News Channel 11
Thursday, December 2, 2004
Alex Simms and Kristy T. Millikin were interview by Channel 11's Dave Fehling on a report higlighting the research of Galveston Island compiled by Dr. John Anderson's research team: weblink| video
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New Supercomputing Facility Funded by NSF Grant
Researchers in the Department of Earth Science are looking forward to the arrival of a new high speed supercomputing facility at Rice, following the recent $2 million award from the National Science Foundation to Rice's Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI). The grant, one of the largest awarded under NSF's Major Research Initiative program, will support the development of the Rice Computational Research Cluster, or RCRC, consisting of as many as 512 AMD Opteron microprocessors, running the Linux operating system. The facility will benefit more than 32 faculty investigators at Rice, as well as students. Among these are 5 faculty in Earth Science, enabling advances in several areas of geophysics research, including computational fluid dynamics (Lenardic), particle dynamics modeling (Morgan), and seismology (Levander, Zelt, and Niu). The grant was coordinated by CITI (Jan Odegard, Executive Director) with Keith Cooper (Computer Science) as the lead PI and Matteo Pasquali (Chemical Engineering), Danny Sorensen (Computational and Applied Math), Julia Morgan (Earth Sciences) and Darcy Burgund (Psychology) as Co-PIs. CITI expects the cluster to become operational next year, with a peak performance approaching 2.5 trillion teraflops. Rice News Release.
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