The Spackman Award: TSOP Student Research Grants
William Spackman portrait 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.

Recipients of the Spackman Award

2005
Sarah Hawkins
 University of Kentucky
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
Aciniform Soot in K/T Boundary Sediments.

2003
Daniel Ross
 The University of British Columbia
Gas Potential of Canadian Black Shales and the Role of Organic Matter.

2002
Bethany Burnett
 The University of New Mexico
Formation Mechanisms of Hydrocarbons in Volcanic Gases.

2001
Sharleen Ramos
 The University of British Columbia
Gas Shale Resources - Role of Organic Matter.

2000
Michelle Hawke
 The University of British Columbia
Anthropogenic trace metals in peats in the environs of industrial point sources - a combined geochemical and petrographic approach.

2000
Rachel Walker
Indiana University
Elemental composition of coal macerals:
distribution of nitrogen as determined from an electron microprobe.

1999
Nadir Taskin Akpulat
University of Calgary
Hydrocarbon generation kinetics of the Lower Cretaceous Ostracode Zone and quantitative basin modeling, Alberta Basin, Canada.

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