Dr. Sawyer has been selected to receive a grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund in the amount of $110,000 for 2 years beginning in September, 2016.
The proposal title is Seismicity-enhanced compaction in deepwater fine-grained sediments. This proposal will fund graduate student research and builds off the work published in Geophysical Research Letters:
Sawyer, D. E., and J. R. DeVore (2015), Elevated shear strength of sediments on active margins: Evidence for seismic strengthening, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL066603.