Fellowships & Scholarships

2011

John R. Farver, Bowling Green State University

Experimental investigation of quartz cementation at diagenetic conditions using a hydrothermal flow-through cell

Julia Gale, University of Texas at Austin

Timing and mechanisms of fractures in shale-gas reservoirs

Steven Gohlke, University of Vermont

Using cement stratigraphy to constrain the timing of structural even on Sinn el-Kaddab plateau, Egypt

Martin Larsen, Montana State University

Structural analysis of normal faults in SW Montana

Timothy O’Brien, University of Michigan

Illite to muscovite transition:  indicator of a westward enroaching Acadian deformational front

Tobias Weisenberger, University of Texas at Austin

Diagenetic controls on carbonate fracture cementation, Mesaverde Group, Piceance Basin

2010

William Dunlap, University of Minnesota

Structural diagenesis at the sediment/rock interface:  Tidal and secular deformation and the production of mechanical surface anisotropy

Peter Eichhubl, University of Texas at Austin

Conduct research and present lectures at the University of Vienna, Austria

Andras Fall, University of Texas at Austin

Fluid inclusion mapping of spatial and temporal variations in gas saturation in fractured sandstone reservoirs, Piceance Basin, Colorado

Hiroko Kitajima, The Pennsylvania State University

Effects of stress states and cementation on physical properties of mudstones in the Nankai subduction zone

Elizabeth Petrie, Utah State University

Evaluation of discontinuities and diagenesis in cap-rock lithologies; and implications for secure storage of CO2

2009

Daniel Bulger, University of Georgia

Mg-clay mineral diagenesis in late Mississippian carbonates within a sequence stratigraphic framework: Evidence from the Appalachian Basin

Jennie Cook, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Effect of progressive diagenesis on the mechanical behavior of compositionally variable sandstones

Peter Eichhubl, University of Texas at Austin

Present results of research in the interdisciplinary field of structural geology and diagenesis at the Euroconference of Rock Physics and Geomechanics (Ascona, Switzerland) and at the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (Montpellier, France)

Jennifer Goyette, University of Wyoming

Fault rock analysis in the Chemehuevi-Sacramento low-angle normal fault system:  evidence of low angle normal fault slip mechanisms

John Hooker, University of Texas at Austin

Fracture scaling in sedimentary rocks

Autumn Kaylor, University of Texas at Austin

Diagenesis of Cretaceous sandstones in the foreland fold and thrust belt of the Canadian Rockies

Jon Olson, University of Texas at Austin

Fractured reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing and petroleum rock mechanics

2008

Jung Byeongju, Tufts University

Geohydrology of structurally-controlled fluid migration and fault diagenesis in the Los Angeles Basin, CA

Julia Gale,  University of Texas at Austin

Structural diagenesis in shale-gas reservoirs:  implications for fracturing

Samuel Haines, Penn State University

Clay growth in brittle fault rocks:  understanding the relative roles of wallrock lithology and fluid flux

Bernard Housen, Western Washington University

Evaluation of syndeformational fluid flow/remagnetization in fold and thrust belts

Edward Meyer, Dartmouth College

The Alberta Tar Sands Deposits:  a novel approach to correlate source shale diagenesis and maturation with reservoir sandstone diagenesis and petroleum migration in a classic thrust belt

Alexander Urquhart, University of Texas at Austin

Structural and chemical interactions of CO2-rich fluids in the fault and fracture systems of siliciclastic reservoirs

2007

Ramil Ahmadov, Stanford University

Develop new tools for remote resource assessment, specifically using rock physics and organic geochemistry to evaluate oil shales

Magdalena Ellis, University of Texas at Austin

Fracture spatial distribution along a fault zone in the Torridonian sandstones, northwestern Scotland

Juraj Farkas, Harvard University

The application of calcium isotopes to study diagenetic processes in carbonate sedimentary systems

Juan Francisco Inigo, University of Texas at Austin

Bolivian and Argentinean Devonian basin:  structural model and fracture analysis in a major gas emplacement

Peter Hargrove, University of Texas at Austin

Fault related fracture permeability in a tight-gas sandstone analog

Deb Jaisi, Yale University

Determination of extent of sediment reworking during diagenesis using oxygen isotopes in phosphates