Geologist Antun Husinec Awarded Research Grant

A recent award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund has enabled Assistant Professor of Geology Antun Husinec to launch a project this summer focused on studying how climate change during the early Ordovician relates to well-documented later Ordovician sea-level changes. His award, an Undergraduate New Investigator grant of $50,000, is designed to help him, as an early-career faculty member, launch his own research program. Dr. Husinec will travel with students to the Red River Formation in North Dakota this summer and next to carry out fieldwork that will increase understanding of cyclic carbonate depositional systems and potentially help with the creation of reservoir models for the oil industry. For more information on this award, please see our full press release.