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TSOP has awarded research grants to graduate students since 1999. In 2005, the grant was named the William Spackman Student Research Award. William Spackman, throughout his career at The Pennsylvania State University, played a leading role in educating many people who are now active in the organic petrology field. Many in TSOP were either Bill's student or had Bill serve on their graduate committee. Graduates at schools such as Southern Illinois, Kentucky, South Carolina, and others, represent the second generation of Bill's influence. His long dedication to coal education has made it appropriate to name this award after him. Bill was highly influential throughout the history of the North American Coal Petrographers, and was the first President-Elect and second President of TSOP. He was made an Honorary Member in 1994. |
Year |
Spackman Award Recipients |
2023 |
Hafidz Noor Fikri Montanuniversität Leoben, AUSTRIA / Lambung Mangkurat University, INDONESIA & Jiawei Feng China University of Mining and Technology, CHINA |
2022 |
Itumeleng Venessa Matlala University of Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA & Mateusz Wolszczak University of Wrocław, POLAND |
2021 |
Leibo Bian Aarhus University, DENMARK Refining organic interaction of redox metals in the lower Palaeozoic Alum Shale & Wei Li University of Nottingham, UK Simulation and experimental characterization of water effect on methane adsorption in shale through kerogen |
2020 |
Not awarded. |
2019 |
Xiaowei Zheng Aarhus University, DENMARK Organic petrology and geochemical characteristics of the Lower Paleozoic Shales of Scandinavia & Xin Guo China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), CHINA Petrographic characteristics of residues derived from coal pyrolysis and gasification |
2018 |
Kuo Li China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), CHINA Structural transformations of natural graphitazed coals from China |
2017 |
Dakota Lindsey Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA Preservation of organic matter in the New Albany Shale (IL) & Manuel Paez University of Houston, Texas, USA Revealing the influence of volcanism, silicate weathering and organic productivity on the carbon cycle in the Cenomanian-Turonian |
2016 |
Quin Ryan Scott Miller University of Wyoming, USA Neutron scattering study of porosity evolution in unconventional reservoirs & Qiang Wei China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing), CHINA Organic affinity of trace elements in Ge-rich coals from China |
2015 |
Amberley Tobin Southern Illinois University, USA Geochemical and maceral composition of the Illinois Basin slurry ponds: Economic implications via the OHD process & Ashley Manning-Berg University of Tennessee, USA Effects of biogeochemical processes on the preservation of Paleozoic algal mats |
2014 |
Carl Peters Macquarie University, AUSTRALIA Biomarkers and fluid inclusions of early Earth using samples from Australia |
2014 |
Sophia Bratenkov Macquarie University, AUSTRALIA Exploration of Miocene biomarkers in cored sedimentary rocks from IODP Expedition 317, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand |
2014 |
Arka Rudra Indian Institute of Technology, INDIA Palaeo-environmental and palaeoclimatic studies of Palaeogene sediments and oils, Upper Assam Shelf, India |
2014 |
Julian Zapata National University of Colombia, COLOMBIA Petrographic and geochemical evaluation of core samples in horizontal drilling from Amagá Formation coals, to identify lateral variation of organic matter and content of the hydrocarbons present |
2013 |
Joy Buongiorno University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Time-series analysis of paired isotopic compositions of Ccarb and Corg in mineralized microbialites of the High Andes, Argentina |
2013 |
Trent Garrison University of Kentucky, USA Environmental effects of coal mine fires |
2012 |
Rita Susilawati University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA Controls on microbial methane generation in selected low-rank Indonesian coals |
2011 |
Hayley Manners University of Plymouth, UK High-resolution compound-specific carbon isotope study of the PETM in northern Spain |
2011 |
Mohammad Wahid Rahman Southern Illinois University, USA Geochemistry and petrology of thermally altered coals |
2010 |
Kristen Miller University of Maryland, USA Metazoans of the Mesoproterozoic? A paleoenvironmental and paleobiological evaluation of biomarkers from the Vazante Group, Brazil |
2010 |
Chris Mays Monash University, AUSTRALIA South Polar environments: new data and insights from the Tapuangi Formation, Chatham Islands, SW Pacific |
2009 |
Dawn Hayes Utah State University, USA Sequence stratigraphic microfossil and geochemical analysis of the Neoproterozoic Red Pine Shale, Uinta Mountain Group: evidence of biotic change driven by eutrophication? |
2009 |
Asep Permana University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA Influence of igneous intrusions on coal seam characteristics in the South Walker Creek area, Bowen Basin, Queensland |
2009 |
Margaret McPherson University of Kentucky / Southern Illinois University, USA Geochemistry and petrography of thermally metamorphosed Antarctic coal: implications for 13C-depleted methane release |
2008 |
Kaydy Pinetown University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA Factors Affecting Gas in Coal Systems with Special Reference to the Hunter Coalfield |
2007 |
Lois Yoksulian University of Kentucky, USA Petrography and Geochemistry of Contact Metamorphosed Coals: Implications for the Release of 12C-enriched Methane |
2006 |
Rachael Von Mann University of Kentucky, USA Influence of primary productivity on organic matter preservation in the middle Ordovician Decorah Formation and the Late Ordovician Maquoketa Group of eastern Iowa |
2006 |
Tenille Mares University of Canterbury, NEW ZEALAND Geological and geochemical controls on fracture and pore systems in relation to gas flow regimes in the Huntly Basin |
2005 |
Sarah Hawkins University of Kentucky, USA The role of terrestrial organic matter in the Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Appalachian marine basin: Implications for the expansion of land plants, paleo-atmospheric oxygen levels and organic-rich black shale accumulation |
2004 |
Mark Harvey Indiana University, USA Aciniform Soot in K/T Boundary Sediments |
2003 |
Daniel Ross The University of British Columbia, CANADA Gas Potential of Canadian Black Shales and the Role of Organic Matter |
2002 |
Bethany Burnett The University of New Mexico, USA Formation Mechanisms of Hydrocarbons in Volcanic Gases |
2001 |
Sharleen Ramos The University of British Columbia, CANADA Gas Shale Resources - Role of Organic Matter |
2000 |
Michelle Hawke The University of British Columbia, CANADA Anthropogenic trace metals in peats in the environs of industrial point sources - a combined geochemical and petrographic approach |
2000 |
Rachel Walker Indiana University, USA Elemental composition of coal macerals: distribution of nitrogen as determined from an electron microprobe |
1999 |
Nadir Taskin Akpulat University of Calgary, CANADA Hydrocarbon generation kinetics of the Lower Cretaceous Ostracode Zone and quantitative basin modeling, Alberta Basin, Canada |