Matson, Braunstein Award Winners Announced
The Matson and Braunstein awards, given for best technical presentations at an AAPG annual meeting, have been announced for the recent conference in San Antonio.
The Matson Memorial Award, given for best oral presentation, has been won by Martha O. Withjack, with Mobil Technology in Dallas, for the paper, "Structural History of the Northwest Shelf, Australia: An Integrated Geological, Geophysical and Experimental Approach."
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The Matson and Braunstein awards, given for best technical presentations at an AAPG annual meeting, have been announced for the recent conference in San Antonio.
The Matson Memorial Award, given for best oral presentation, has been won by Martha O. Withjack, with Mobil Technology in Dallas, for the paper, "Structural History of the Northwest Shelf, Australia: An Integrated Geological, Geophysical and Experimental Approach."
Her co-author is Gloria Eisenstadt, also of Mobil Technology in Dallas.
The Jules Braunstein Memorial Award, given for best poster presentation, has been won by Eloise Doherty and Stephen E. Laubach, both with the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, for the poster "Natural Fracture Analysis Using Drilled Sidewall Cores."
All will receive their awards during the opening ceremony of the 2000 AAPG annual meeting, set April 16-19 in New Orleans.
Division, Student Award Winners Announced for San Antonio Presentations
Various technical awards given for oral and poster presentations at the recent AAPG annual meeting in San Antonio have been announced.
Those awards include:
- The Division of Environmental Geosciences best oral paper award goes to Charles W. Byrer, with the U.S. Department of Energy in Morgantown, W.Va., for "Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Potential in Coal Deposits." His co-author is Hugh D. Guthrie, also with the Department of Energy, Morgantown, W.Va.
- The SEPM best paper award goes to Eugene A. Shinn, with the U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, Fla., for "Tidal Pumping as a Diagenetic Agent." His co-authors are C.D. Reich and T.D. Hickey, both with the USGS in St. Petersburg.
- The SEPM best poster award goes to Steven M. Holland, with the department of geology at the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., and Mark E. Patzkowsky, with the department of geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., for "Depositional Sequences and Biostratigraphy: The Role of Sequence Architecture in the Timing of First and Last Appearances."
- The best student oral paper award goes to Mark E. Deptuck, of Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for "Timing and Location of Late Cretaceous to Eocene Erosional Features and Submarine Fans of the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, Offshore Newfoundland."
- The best student poster award goes to Elizabeth Witton, Colorado School of Mines for "Borehole Image Analysis of Thin-Bedded and Channelized Turbidites and Sandy Debris Flows, Lewis Shale, Wyoming."