Sunday, Oct. 5 • 5:00 pm–6:00 pm • Blues Room

Join GCAGS President Mary Broussard, GCSSEPM President Carl Fiduk, and General Chair Michael Quinn in welcoming attendees to Lafayette and awarding worthy individuals for their contributions to both the GCAGS and GCSSEPM. Meet candidates for AAPG office as well.

Awards Ceremony

The Awards Ceremony recognizes the 2014 recipients of GCAGS and GCSSEPM special honors, as well as the awardees of the best presentations at the 2013 convention and best published papers in the 2013 GCAGS Transactions and GCAGS Journal, all of whose works have made an important contribution to the GCAGS and the advancement of geosciences.

2014 GCAGS Transactions Dedication – Daniel J. Tearpock (deceased)

2014 GCAGS Honorary Membership – Brian E. Lock

2014 GCAGS Special Commendation Award – Arthur H. Johnson

2014 GCAGS Outstanding Educator – Timothy W. Duex

2014 Owen R. Hopkins Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Award – Jennifer Denise Reyes

2014 GCSSEPM Doris Curtis Malkin Medal – Shirley Dutton

2014 GCSSEPM Distinguished Service Award – David T. King, Jr.

2014 GCSSEPM Honorary Membership Award – Brian E. Lock

2014 AAPG Gulf Coast Section Imperial Barrel Award – 1st Place, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (advanced to and won 2014 AAPG Global Imperial Barrel Award); 2nd Place, Texas A&M University; 3rd Place, University of Houston

2013 AAPG Gulf Coast Section A. I. LEVORSEN MEMORIAL AWARD – Jonathan P. Parker, co-authors: Claudia Montoya, Richard Uden, Oleg Yakovlev, and Michael Murat, “Comparison of Ocean Bottom Node and Legacy Narrow-Azimuth Seismic Surveys at Ewing Bank, Gulf of Mexico”

2013 THOMAS A. PHILPOTT EXCELLENCE OF PRESENTATION AWARDS – 1st Place, Jonathan P. Parker, Claudia Montoya, Richard Uden, Oleg Yakovlev, and Michael Murat, “Comparison of Ocean Bottom Node and Legacy Narrow-Azimuth Seismic Surveys at Ewing Bank, Gulf of Mexico”; 2nd Place, Richard Denne and Robert Blanchard, “Regional Controls on the Formation of DeSoto Canyon, Gulf of Mexico”; and 3rd Place, Jeffrey Nittrouer, “Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in the Lowermost Mississippi River: Implications for the Development of Fluvial-Deltaic Stratigraphy in Large Lowland River Basins”

2013 GORDON I. ATWATER BEST POSTER AWARDS – 1st Place, Regina Dickey, “Palynology and Paleoenvironment of Paleocene-Eocene Wilcox Group Sediments in Bastrop, Texas”; 2nd Place, Joshua Vanlandingham and W. Joe Lambert, “Unraveling Gulf Coast Paleo-Rainfall Variability using Climate Proxies Archived in Alabama Stalagmites”; and 3rd Place, Jason Asmus and G. Michael Grammer, “Characterization of Deepwater Carbonate Turbidites and Mass-Transport Deposits Utilizing High-Resolution Electrical Borehole Image Logs: Upper Leonardian (Lower Permian) Upper Bone Spring Limestone, Delaware Basin, Southeast New Mexico and West Texas”

2013 GROVER E. MURRAY BEST PUBLISHED PAPER AWARDS – 1st Place, Thomas E. Ewing, “Stratigraphy of the Austin, Eagle Ford, and Anacacho Formations and its Influence on Hydrocarbon Resources, Pearsall Field Area, South Texas”; 2nd Place (tie) – Malcolm B. Hart, Peter J. Harries, and Andrés L. Cárdenas, “The Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary Events in the Gulf Coast: Comparisons between Alabama and Texas” and David T. King, Jr. and Lucille W. Petruny, “Stratigraphy of the Margaret Creek Formation, Corozal Basin, Northern Belize”; and 3rd Place, Brian E. Lock, Joseph W. Grimball, and Jack G. Johnson, “The Cenomanian Del Rio Formation in West Texas”

2013 PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING PAPER, GCAGS Journal – Jerry Lucia and Robert Loucks, “Micropores in Carbonate Mud: Early Development and Petrophysics”