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6Th Annual Jackson School of Geosciences Student Research Symposium February 4, 2017 6th Annual Jackson School of Geosciences Student Research Symposium February 4, 2017 Jackson School of Geosciences GSEC Graduate Student Executive Committee Welcome to the 6th Annual Jackson School Research Symposium It is with great pleasure we welcome you all to the 6th Annual Jackson School Research Symposium at UT-Austin! This symposium would not have been possible without the hard work of student volunteers, the support of faculty/research scientists, and generous support from ConocoPhillips. Thank you for taking part in supporting our students and growing research program within the Jackson School. Enjoy the posters! Schedule of Presentations and Events Breakfast, A.M. session poster set-up...............................................8:30 a.m. Early Career Graduate (ECG) posters......................................9:00-11:30 a.m. Late Career Masters (LCM) posters.........................................9:00-11:30 a.m. Lunch, A.M. session poster take-down.............................................11:30 a.m. P.M. session poster set-up................................................................12:30 p.m. Undergraduate (U) posters….....................................................1:00-3:30 p.m. Late Career PhD (LCPhD) posters.............................................1:00-3:30 p.m. Happy hour/judging............................................................................3:30 p.m. Awards/closing....................................................................................4:00 p.m. ii Table of Contents Program Schedule ................................................. ii Poster/abstract list and Table of Contents ............ iii-viii AM Poster Layout Map .......................................... ix PM Poster Layout Map .......................................... x Student Abstracts ................................................. 1-115 (ordered by judging category, then theme, then last name. See below.) Poster ID First Name Last Name Poster Title Page Number Early Career Graduate Student (ECG) Climate, Carbon & Geobiology (CCG) ECG-1 Natallia Piatrunia Hydroclimate of North Island of New Zealand During 1 the Last 45,000 Years ECG-2 Hannah-Maria Brame Aberrant bivalves and tenacious corals of the Early 2 Jurassic, Morocco: Survivors of extinction and oceanic anoxia ECG-3 Seungwon Chung The Impact of Landscape Nitrogen Dynamics on Water 3 Quality in Texas ECG-4 Sarah Davis Origin of Novel Color Phenotypes: Contribution of 4 Structural Properties of Biochemical Networks ECG-5 Eva Hoffman Postcranial Anatomy of Kayentatherium wellesi: 5 Swimming Adaptations in a Mammal Relative from the Early Jurassic ECG-6 Allison Lawman A Coral-based Reconstruction of Interannual Climate 6 Variability at Vanuatu during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (950-1250 CE) ECG-7 Lingcheng Li Latitudinal Relationship between Ecosystem Water Use 7 Efficiency and Vegetation Attributes in North American Forest Ecosystem ECG-8 Simon Scarpetta Cranial osteology of extinct and extant gerrhonotine 8 lizards ECG-9 Lily Serach The role of carbon use efficiency and isotopic 9 fractionation during microbial respiration to the down- profile increase in the carbon isotope ratio of soil organic matter ECG-10 Chijun Sun Distribution of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol 10 tetraethers in soils on the Northeastern Qinghai- Tibetan Plateau and possible production by nitrite- reducing bacteria ECG-11 Charles Withnell A Preliminary Report on the Arvicoline Rodents from 11 the Pleistocene Sites of Conard Fissure, Arkansas and Cumberland Cave, Maryland ECG-12 Xian Wu What Controls the Duration of El Niño and La Niña 12 Events? Energy Geosciences (EG) ECG-13 Sean Bader Semiautomatic Seismic to Well Ties 13 ECG-14 Taylor Canada Sequence Stratigraphy and Structure of the 14 Wolfcampian Hueco Platform on the Southwestern Margin of the Delaware Basin ECG-15 Eric Goldfarb Computed Tomography (CT) Scanning of a Berea 15 Sandstone at Different Resolutions to Compare Results in Density, Porosity, and Elastic Properties ECG-16 Mario Gutierrez Stratigraphic Interpretation of Neogene Sediment 16 Transport and Channels of the Mississippi Fan, Southeastern Gulf of Mexico ECG-17 Ken Ikeda Modelling of the Relationship Between 2D and 3D 17 Effective Elastic Properties ECG-18 Sebastian Ramiro Ramirez Steady-State Liquid Permeability Tests in the Wolfcamp 18 Formation, Permian Basin, West Texas ECG-19 Matthew Ramos Stress-Dependent Static-to-Dynamic Transforms of 19 Anisotropic Mancos Shale iii ECG-20 Peter Schemper Deposition and Sequence Stratigraphy of the East Texas 20 Smackover Formation ECG-21 Graham Soto-Kerans Sediment-routing reconstruction and provenance 21 analysis of Permian (Guadalupian) strata, southern Delaware Basin, west Texas Marine Geosciences (MG) ECG-22 Tiannong Dong Pore-Scale Analysis of Methane Hydrate Formation 22 and Dissociation in Brine using Micro-Raman Spectroscopy ECG-23 Dominik Kardell The 2A Event in 70 Myr Old Oceanic Crust: A 23 Persistent Velocity Contrast? ECG-24 Naoma McCall Studying onshore-offshore fault linkages and landslides 24 in Icy Bay and Taan Fiord to assess geohazards in Southeast Alaska ECG-25 Brandon Shuck Evolution of the Upper Lithosphere in the ENAM Area 25 from 3-D Wide-Angle Seismic Data ECG-26 John Swartz Rapid shut-off and burial of slope channel-levee 26 systems: new imaging and analysis of the Rio Grande submarine fan ECG-27 Gabriel Travassos Tagliaro Middle-late Miocene siliciclastic influx on the 27 Australian Northwest Shelf: origins and potential links to global events Planetary Sciences (PS) ECG-28 Andrew Parisi Geochronology of Proposed Ordovician Meteorite 28 Events in North America Solid Earth & Tectonic Processes (SETP) ECG-29 Scott Eckley 3D Analysis of the Internal Structure of Natural 29 Polycrystalline Diamond Using XCT: Implications for Carbonado History ECG-30 Thomas Etzel High-resolution garnet P-T paths for the central 30 Menderes Massif, western Turkey ECG-31 Megan Flansburg New Geochronometric and Low-Temperature 31 Thermochronometric Insights on the Nature of the Cycladic Basement and Cycladic Blueschist Unit Contact in the Southern Cyclades, Ios Island, Greece: Implications for Aegean Tectonics ECG-32 Evelin Gutiérrez Sediment routing in the Oriente Basin, Ecuador: 32 Detrital zircon and seismic insights into Cenozoic paleodrainage and paleogeography ECG-33 Cullen Kortyna Provenance Analysis of the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene 33 Southwest Texas Sediment Routing System: Detrital Zircon Geochronology from the Tornillo Basin, Big Bend National Park ECG-34 Chujie Liu Attenuation in the African LLSVP Estimated from PcS 34 and PcP Phases ECG-35 Sean O'donnell Interaction of Two, Independent, Pyroclastic Density 35 Currents ECG-36 Yunzhi Shi Path-finding algorithm for stable trace interpolation 36 ECG-37 Carolyn Tewksbury-Christ Tectonic History and Rheology of a Subduction 37 Interface Shear Zone, Condrey Mountain Window, Northern California ECG-38 Kelly Thomson Tracing Environmental Signals from Source to Sink: 38 Zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) Double Dating Applied to the Foreland Basins of the South Central Pyrenees, Spain Surface & Hydrologic Processes (SHP) ECG-39 Hima Hassenruck-Gudipati Setting the Stage for Levee Building Processes 39 ECG-40 Alison Tune A First Look at Identifying the Biogeochemical 40 Weathering Front in a Fractured Hillslope at the Eel River Critical Zone Observatory iv ECG-41 Wen-Ying Wu Towards Developing a Framework for Predicting River 41 Flows on Global Scales Late Career Masters Student (LCMS) CCG LCMS-1 Sol Cooperdock Determining the Limiting Factors Controlling Soil 42 Ecosystem Regeneration After a Stand-replacing Wildfire LCMS-2 Nicholas Ettinger A Multiproxy record of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic 43 Event in Shallow-Water Carbonates from the Adriatic Carbonate Platform LCMS-3 Kelly Hattori Architecture of a Mid-Cretaceous Patch Reef: High 44 Resolution Mapping of Facies Structures and Distribution at Paul Spur, Bisbee, Arizona LCMS-4 Christina James Using central Texas speleothems to identify regional 45 moisture distribution during the last deglaciation LCMS-5 Reinaldo Sabbagh Maciel Sensitivity analysis of Lower Miocene sandstones to 46 CO2 saturation in the inner continental shelf of the Texas Gulf of Mexico EG LCMS-6 Luis Enrique Arce Perez Neogene Current-Modified Submarine Fans and 47 Associated Bed Forms in Mexican Deep-water Areas LCMS-7 Landon Lockhart Integrated Approach to Pressure Prediction at Mad 48 Dog, Gulf of Mexico LCMS-8 Mason Phillips Automatic gather flattening for AVO analysis using 49 amplitude-adjusted plane-wave destruction filters LCMS-9 Francis W Pinkston Pressure and Stress at the Macondo Well 50 LCMS-10 Hualing Zhang Lithofacies, diagenesis and reservoir quality of 51 deepwater unconventional system: Wolfcampian succession, Midland Basin, West Texas SETP LCMS-11 Patrick Boyd Intra-grain common Pb correction and detrital apatite 52 U-Pb dating via LA-ICPMS depth profiling LCMS-12 Elizabeth McKinnon Structural diagenesis of a sub-salt fractured carbonate 53 reservoir analog, NE Brazil **WITHDRAWN** LCMS-13 Juan Munoz Holocene Geologic Slip Rate for the Mission Creek 54 Strand of the southern San Andreas fault, Indio Hills, CA LCMS-14 Eirini Poulaki Provenance of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit and 55 Basement in the Southern Cyclades and Cooling and Exhumation History of the Metamorphic Core Complex in the Aegean Domain, Sikinos Island, Cyclades, Greece LCMS-15 Evan Ramos Structural Controls on Fluid Flow and Stable Isotope 56 Transport
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