Chair’s Welcome
Greetings! Welcome to the Spring 2024 department newsletter. This semester went by in a flash, and it’s amazing how much EAS has accomplished in such a short time.
Please see below a selection of exciting stories about new field opportunities, Spring events, EAS student competitions, student grants, and all the exciting research spanning Earth’s interior, surface, atmosphere, and beyond.
I couldn’t be prouder of our students, faculty, and staff who make all these successes possible. Check out our website for how to get involved with EAS.
Take care and Go Coogs!
Tom Lapen
Chair, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
In This Issue
Awards & Honors
- Doctoral Candidate Ruby Patterson Names Two Lunar Craters
- Mann Serves as Senior Fulbright Fellow in Morocco and Spain
Student Spotlight
Houston Students Embrace the Chill: A Winter Field Trip to New Mexico
Trip focused on structural features, petrography, and stratigraphy.
UH Team Advances to Imperial Barrel Award World Finals
Team analyzed dataset of Bristol Basin along the southern margin of Alaska.
Geophysics Ph.D. Student’s Research is a Game Changer for Oil and Gas Exploration
Larkin Spires targets mysteries in organic-rich shales.
Spring Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced
Four students received funding awards to carry out and publish research.