Spring 2016 Highlights

It was a busy spring semester for the Basin Research Group!

Post-Doc and Graduate Students:

Dr. Jess Hillman just completed her post-doc with us and we are sad to see her go. She will be joining Geomar in Kiel, Germany in a project jointly with ExxonMobil Research Co. Josh DeVore successfully defended his MS thesis and will be joining the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Geologic survey here in Columbus. Katie Treiber was recognized at the annual banquet as an outstanding Teaching Assistant for Reflection Seismology and Energy Geophysics. Katie will be interning with Oxy in Houston, TX for the summer as soon as she gets her MS thesis proposal completed and approved. Trevor Browning has an article in press with the Caribbean Journal of Science and successfully transferred into the PhD program. Chen Yang, Katie Treiber, and Jess Hillman all presented work at the Gordon Research Conference on Gas Hydrates in Galveston, TX.

Undergraduate Students:

Congratulations to Mario Gutierrez, Tyler Rohan, and Ryan Haugh who successfully completed and defended their undergraduate theses. Mario will be interning with Statoil in Houston for the summer and then begin graduate school at UT Austin in the fall. Tyler won first place for his poster presentation at the Ohio State undergraduate research forum and he’ll be continuing his research in the lab over the summer.

Alan Moore and Tom Copeland will be Shell Undergraduate Research Fellows for the summer in the lab. In addition, Nick Rodgers and Brandi Lenz will be working on research projects in the group before they head out to Utah for field camp!