Tom Neal

Tom Neal
  • PhD Student, Sedimentary Geology

Contact Info

Ritchie Hall Room 354
Lawrence

Biography —

Advisor: Dr. Gene Rankey

Education —

M.S. in Physical Oceanograph, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
B.A. in Geology, Miami University, Oxford, OH
M.S. in Geology, University of Kansas

Research —

Integrated field and hydrodynamic modeling of the sedimentology, geomorphology and oceanographic controls of Holocene and Miocene marine carbonate platforms: in Southeast Asia and the Central Pacific. 

Awards & Honors —

202 University of Kansas Department of Geology Erasmus Haworth Graduate Honors in Geology award.

2018 AAPG Foundation Nancy Setzer Murray Memorial Grant-in-aid for Ph.D. research.

2015 Geological Society of America’s/ExxonMobil Bighorn Basin Field Program, Cody WY. 

2014 ExxonMobil/Geologic Society of America Student Science Award and grant for MS research.

2014 Geologic Society of America Alexander Sisson Research Award for MS research in the Caribbean.

2014 AAPG Foundation R Dana Russel Award and Grant-in-aid for MS research in oceanography.