University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
SRC Presentations and Posters

2022 STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE PROGRAM


Please click on the individual profiles to view the student posters, presentation slides and videos for oral sessions and poster presentations.

During the Oral Presentations, the Zoom link will prompt you to one meeting where you can select one breakout room for either Session A or Session B. During the Poster Presentations Session, the Zoom link will prompt you to one meeting where you can select each student’s breakout room.

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Schedule of Presentations

9AM – 12PM: Student oral presentations, Session A

9AM – 12PM: Student oral presentations, Session B

1PM – 2:30PM: Student Poster Presentations


Keynote Speaker

3:00PM - 3:30PM - Join here


Awards Ceremony

3:30PM - 4:30PM - Join here

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

9 AM – 12 PM: Join here

Oral Presentations Session A | 9:00 AM CT
Identifying Unreported NO2 Hotspots in Satellite Data

Presented by Tabitha Lee

Oral Presentations Session B | 9:00 AM CT

High-velocity slip during thermal decomposition of carbonates: example from the Heart Mountain Slide ultracataclasites, Wyoming

Presented by Nina Zamanialavijeh

Oral Presentations Session A | 9:15 AM CT
Analysis of PFAS in the Edwards Aquifer

Presented by Claire Ong

Oral Presentations Session B | 9:15 AM CT

Coniacian-Santonian-sourced petroleum system along the deepwater Caribbean margin of Colombia

Presented by Juan Pablo Ramos

Oral Presentations Session A | 9:30 AM CT
Contributions of meteorology to ozone variations: Application of deep learning and the Kolmogorov-Zurbenko filter

Presented by Bavand Sadeghi

Oral Presentations Session B | 9:30 AM CT
Testing rift versus transform models for the Guyana margin using 3D gravity model in contrast to seismic reflection data

Presented by Kenneth Shipper

Oral Presentations Session A | 9:45 AM CT
Revised plate model for the opening of the Gulf of Mexico basin based on a more precise definition of the continent-ocean boundaries from multiple data types

Presented by Muhammad Nawaz Bugti

Oral Presentations Session B | 9:45 AM CT
Numerical lithospheric flexure in the U.S. Midcontinent: towards an assessment of post-Laramide uplift and subsidence

Presented by Michael Martinez

Oral Presentations Session A | 10:00 AM CT
Stress Variations in the Delaware Basin from Shear-Wave Splitting Analysis

Presented by Veronica Guzman

Oral Presentations Session B | 10:00 AM CT
Quantifying Vegetation and Land Cover Changes about the Path of Hurricane Harvey

Presented by Sara Rojas

Oral Presentations Session A | 10:15 AM CT
Estimating thermal stress and expelled hydrocarbons from Mesozoic-Cenozoic source rocks of southern Gulf of Mexico

Presented by Md Nahidul Hasan

Oral Presentations Session B | 10:15 AM CT
Crustal structure of the northwestern Red Sea rifted-passive margin based on an integration of seismic refraction, seismic reflection, and outcrop data

Presented by Mohamed Abdelfatah

Oral Presentations Session A | 10:45 AM CT
Spatial Variation of Surface O3 Responses to Drought Over the Contiguous United States During Summertime: Role of Precursor Emissions and Ozone Chemistry

Presented by Wei Li

Oral Presentations Session B | 10:45 AM CT
Application of Deep Learning to Model Reference Crop Evapotranspiration (ETo) in Bangladesh

Presented by Shihab Ahmad Shahriar


Oral Presentations Session A | 11:00 AM CT
In Situ Resource Utilization Potential of Artemis Landing Site 105, Lunar South Pole

Presented by Ruby Patterson

  • Poster Presentation Slides

Oral Presentations Session B | 11:00 AM CT
Ozone precursors And Boundary Layer Meteorology Before and During a Severe Ozone Episode in Mexico City

Presented by Tanzina Akther

Oral Presentations Session A | 11:15 AM CT
Mechanism to explain lateral variations in the geothermal gradient of the Delaware Basin, West Texas, as measured and calibrated from 1024 deep exploration wells

Presented by Chesney Petkovsek

Oral Presentations Session B | 11:15 AM CT
Mars' Emitted Energy and Seasonal Energy Imbalance

Presented by Ellen Creecy

Oral Presentations Session A | 11:30 AM CT
Investigation of ground-level ozone pollution in China, 2015–2019

Presented by Ali Mousavinezhad

Oral Presentations Session B | 11:30 AM CT
Evaluating intra-slab anisotropy using the backazimuth dependence of Shear Wave Splitting patterns at west pacific subduction zones

Presented by Sharmila Appini

Oral Presentations Session A | 11:45 AM CT
Changes in Precipitation Patterns in Houston, TX

Presented by Madeline Statkewicz

Oral Presentations Session B | 11:45 AM CT
Variations in the expellable potential of Late Cretaceous source rocks from Trinidad to Guyana: An evaluation of the influence of tectonic, paleogeographic, and global isotopic excursions on organic deposition and preservation

Presented by Daniella Easley

Oral Presentations Session A | 12:00 PM CT
Distribution of trace elements inside source rocks

Presented by Ana Vielma

Oral Presentations Session B | 12:00 PM CT
A Novel Deep Learning Model to Estimate Surface NO2 levels from Remote Sensing Data: 15-Year Study Over the Contiguous United States

Presented by Masoud Ghahremanloo

Quantifying the impact of Hurricane Harvey on barrier island systems of the Central Texas Coast and their recovery: an example from Mustang Island

Presented by Aydin Shahtakhtinskiy

Earth's wandering rotation axis influenced by mantle convection

Presented by Christopher M. Calvelage

Structural restoration of submarine and coalesced pull-apart basins in the northern Gulf of California

Presented by Faith Walton

Identifying anthropogenic methane emissions sources in University of Houston, Texas

Presented by Irfan Karim

Distribution and thickness of sediment-filled rifts in the deep-water Camamu-Alamada rifted-passive margin of northeastern Brazil of northeastern Brazil

Presented by James "JD" McConnell Jr

Structural Geometry and Lateral Propagation of the Surqamar Anticline, Northern Suleiman Fold-Thrust Belt, Western Himalayas

Presented by Kamil A. Qureshi

Observations from Empirical Fluid Substitution in Shales: Why Use the Voigt-Reuss-Hill Average?

Presented by Larkin Spires

Modelling Martian Fault Displacement through HiRISE Datasets

Presented by Leo Collier

Isotopic characterization (d18O, dD, d-excess, and D’17O) of Panamanian rainfall to trace regional water cycling

Presented by Lisabeth Arellano

The Influence of Basal Slip Plane Morphology on the McCartney structure

Presented by Luis Torres

Sedimentary Record of Recent Retreat of Pine Island Glacier, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

Presented by Michael Comas

Sources of Atmospheric Nitrophenols in Houston

Presented by Morshad Ahmed

Integration of multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing data for lithological mapping in Zhob Ophiolite, Western Pakistan

Presented by Muhammad Qasim

Detection of Bastnäsite-Rich Veins in Rare Earth Element Ores through Hyperspectral Imaging

Presented by Otto Gadea

GPR Imaging of permafrost in the CRREL Permafrost Tunnel, Fairbanks Alaska

Presented by Presley Greer

Petrologic and Characterization of Olivine-Phyric Depleted Shergottites Northwest Africa 2046 and Northwest Africa 6162

Presented by Stephanie E. Suarez

Sediment transport and accumulation in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica

Presented by Rachel Clark

The Association Between Texas PM2.5 Density Distribution and Lung Cancer Statistics

Presented by Noelle Cheshire

Searching for slabs within the Earth’s mantle through tomographic Analysis of the north Pacific Basin

Presented by Steven Ramirez