Honors Program -
Research Essay and Photo Gallery

The Jackson School of Geosciences offers a departmental honors program to undergraduate majors. The honors program is closely tied to the pursuit of advanced research projects.

Students meet and greet a diverse group of professors, graduate students and researchers to discuss current research and project opportunities. These meetings open doors for students to discover and become involved in their areas of interest.

The following photo journals are a collection of some of the research projects and field trips the students have taken which are related to their projects.

Honors Research Projects

2007-2008

• Cave Research, Texas, 2007
• Blue Topaz, 2008
• Hueco Tanks, Texas, 2008
• Nankai Accretionary Prism, Japan, 2008

2009

• Rare Earth Element (REE), 2009
• Rudist Bivalve Reef Complex, Texas, 2009
• Hydrothermal Calcite Veins, Mexico, 2009
• Cow Creek Cretaceous Beach Complex, Texas, 2009
• Hydrothermal Features at El Tatio - Chile, 2009
• Copper Isotopes-Grasberg Mine-Indonesia, 2009
• Vestibular Apparatus in Bats - Vertebrate Paleontology, 2009
• Timing of Deposition of Foreland Basin Sediments - Bolivia, 2009

Honors Program Field Trips

• Trip to California, 2007
• Chile - South America, 2008
• Florida Keys, 2009 (Just posted)

If you would like to submit to this collection, please email:  Tim Shin - timshin@mail.utexas.edu

• A short Bio about yourself and a report on your
  research project.
• Your photos with a description of the images.