Geosciences Department News & Events
Hockaday Lab News
Nov-2022-Congratulations to Burke Leonce, winner in the STEM category of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) Research Showcase.
Sept-2022- Congratulations to lab alumnus, Owen Craven on his recent move and promotion to Project Manager and Staff Scientist at EnSafe environmental in Irving, TX.
Sept-2022-Baylor Association of Women Geoscientists is back in action this fall. Join the first meeting on Sept 8th at 5pm in Baylor Sciences Building (room D410) @BaylorAWG
August-2022-Congratulations to Zhao Wang for publishing her new lipid extraction method in Organic Geochemistry
April-2022-Congratulations to Burke Leonce for publishing his second dissertation chapter in the ACS journal Earth & Space Chemistry.
April-2022-Congratualtions to Zhao Wang was awarded the Baylor Graduate School Summer Dissertation Fellowship.
March-2022-Congratulations to Dr. Hockaday as coauthor of a paper selected as finalist for Cozarrelli Prize, recognizing science of the highest quality and originality published in PNAS.
June-2021-Burke Leonce received the Harrison Scholarship from the Association for Fire Ecology in support of professional development and research in the area of wildland fire science.
May-2021 Hockaday received the 2020 American Geophysical Union Editors Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences – In Appreciation of AGU’s Outstanding Reviewers of 2020.
December-2020 Congratulations to Burke Leonce for publishing in the first edition of the Journal – Environmental Science and Technology-Waters, Structure-Photochemical Activity Relationships in Fluorophoric Water-Extracted Organic Matter from (un)charred Plant Materials, DOI: 10.1021/acsestwater.0c00208
November-2019 Congratulations to Burke Leonce for successfully defending the dissertation proposal and advancing to candidacy!
May-2019 Congratulations to Dr. Zachary Valdez on Graduation with a PhD in Ecological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
December-2018 Congratulations to Emily Blackaby for completing her BSc degree in Geology in 3 1/2 years and writing an outstanding thesis! Good luck in the Environmental Chemistry doctoral program at University of Toronto, Emily.
November-2018 Congratulations to Zhao Wang for successfully defending the dissertation proposal and advancing to candidacy!
