Bureau’s Published Researchers Celebrated at Annual First Authors Publication Awards

Each spring, the Bureau of Economic Geology hosts a celebratory dinner and awards ceremony to honor first authors and co-authors of papers published during the previous year. 150 peer-reviewed Bureau papers were published in 2024, 8 more than in 2023. There were 93 Bureau authors and 83 total first authors, 15 of whom were being honored for the first time.

The event also served as the stage to announce the winners of the annual Tinker Family BEG Publication Award, presented to Bureau authors who published work that creates exceptional impact in the field or otherwise significantly benefits the Bureau of Economic Geology scientific community.

The second runners-up for the Award were Roxana Darvari, Jean-Philippe Nicot, Bridget Scanlon, Richard Kyle, Brent Elliott, and Kristine Uhlman for "Controls on lithium content of oilfield waters in Texas and neighboring states." Award first runners-up were Tim Dooley, Juan Soto, Jacqueline Reber, Michael Hudec, Frank Peel, and Gillian Apps for "Modeling mobile shales under contraction—critical analysis of new analog simulation of shale tectonics and comparison with salt-bearing systems."

The Dinner culminated with the announcement of the 2025 winners of the Tinker Family BEG Publication Award, for an integrated assessment of basin-scale produced water disposal, who were Katie Smye, Katherine Yut, Robert Reedy, Bridget Scanlon, Jean-Philippe Nicot, and Peter Hennings with their paper "Challenges with managing unconventional water production and disposal in the Permian Basin."

Please join all of us at the Bureau in congratulating these distinguished authors!