Honors & Awards

Current Students

2018

• AAPG Grants-In-Aid (Ibukun Bode)
• AAPG Grants-In-Aid (Jim Karsten)
• AAPG Grants-In-Aid (Alejandra Santiago Torres)
• Tulsa Geological Society Foundation Outstanding Geoscience Student (Alejandra Santiago Torres)
• Dissertation funded by Newfield Exploration and Linn Energy (Yulun Wang)
• Oklahoma Geological Foundation Herbert G. and Shirley A. Davis Geology Fellowship (Maria Reistroffer)

2017

• Tulsa Geological Society Fellowship (Elizabeth Elium)
• AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition Top Ten Poster (Elizabeth Elium)
• AAPG Grants-In-Aid (Yulun Wang)
• Martin Family Foundation Scholarship (Yulun Wang)
• Devon Fellowship (Yulun Wang)
• Houston Geological Society Mudrocks Conference 2017 Student Grant (Ibukun Bode)
• Geological Society of America (GSA) ExxonMobil Graduate Student Grant (Ibukun Bode)
• Oklahoma Geological Foundation (OKGF) Suzanne Takken Scholarship (Ibukun Bode)
• Houston Geological Survey (HGS) 2017 Applied Geoscience Mudrocks Conference March 2017, The Woodlands, Texas - Runner-up best poster presentation  (Ibukun Bode)
• Martin Family Foundation Scholarship (Maria Reistroffer)
• Dawson Graduate Geophysics Scholarship (Maria Reistroffer)

2016

• AAPG Grants-In-Aid (Yulun Wang)
• Oklahoma Energy Resources Board (C.J. Appleseth)
• Thesis funded by Devon Energy (C.J. Appleseth)
• Houston Geological Survey (HGS) Student Travel Grant 2017 to attend Mudrocks Conference (Ibukun Bode)
• Devon Energy Graduate Fellowship Geology  (Ibukun Bode)
• BP America Scholarship - Geology & Petroleum Scholarship  (Ibukun Bode)
• National Association of Black Geologists (NABG) 2016 Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana September 2016 - Best abstract paper  (Ibukun Bode)
• Houston Geological Survey (HGS) Student Travel Grant 2017 to attend Mudrocks Conference  (Ibukun Bode)

2015

• Chesapeake Energy Graduate Student Scholarship (C.J. Appleseth)
• Martin Family Foundation Scholarship (Elizabeth Elium)
• Association of American Petroleum Geologist (AAPG) Student Expo, August 2015, Houston, Texas September 2015 - Honorable Mention Best Poster (Ibukun Bode)
• Martin Family Foundation Scholarship (Ibukun Bode)
• National Association of Black Geologists (NABG) 2017 Patricia Hall scholarship   (Ibukun Bode)
• BP America Scholar in Geology and Petrology (Yulun Wang)
• Oklahoma Geological Foundation Davis Geology Fellowship (Yulun Wang)

Dr. Grammer

2004-2017 Associate Editor – Journal of Sedimentary Research
2015 A.I. Levorsen Award, AAPG Mid-Continent for paper co-authored with Buddy
Price (OSU M.S.)
2015 Planalp Award for Best Poster, AAPG Mid-Continent for paper co-authored
with Taylor Thompson (OSU M.S.)
2013 Gordon I. Atwater Best Poster Award, Gulf Coast Association of Geological
Societies, with Jason Asmus
2011 WMU Faculty Service Award, Department of Geosciences
2010 Schramm Lecturer, University of Nebraska
2009 WMU Emerging Scholar Award, for faculty in their first decade at WMU who
have developed an international reputation as a leader in their field
2007 WMU Deans Faculty Appreciation Award, College of Arts and Sciences, for
exemplary research and service to the College
2006 AAPG Robert H. Dott, Sr. Memorial Award for best Special Publication
(Memoir 80, lead editor with co-editors P.M. Harris and G.P. Eberli)
2006 AAPG Vincent E. Nelson Memorial Best Poster Award with A.E.
Sandomierski and W. B. Harrison, 2005 Eastern Section of AAPG
2007 Schramm Lecturer, University of Nebraska
2004/2005 President – Michigan Basin Geological Society
2002/2003 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer (United States, Canada and Mexico)
2000 Elected to the Texaco Fellows Mentoring Excellence in Technology
Program (top 1% of technology leaders selection criteria)
1998 Outstanding Instructor Award - Texaco Upstream Technology (UT)
1998 General Manager's Outstanding Individual Contributor Award - Texaco UT
1998 Texaco Star Ambassador Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions
1998 Outstanding Contributor Award - Texaco North American Producing
1998-present Adjunct Professor, University of Miami, RSMAS
1997 Junior Faculty Development Award, University of Miami/RSMAS
1996 Elected to University of Miami Graduate School Faculty, University of Miami
1996 Research Council Award, University of Miami
1994 Keynote Presenter, AAPG Internat'l. Hedberg Conference, Paris, France
1993 Best Poster Award, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
1987-1990 Doctoral Fellowship, University of Miami/RSMAS
1983 Outstanding Masters Thesis, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man,
Southern Methodist University
1983 First Place, Graduate Student Paper Contest, American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting
1981 Mobil Foundation Geology Field Course Scholarship

Research Funding

2017-2018 How Pore Distribution effects Seismic Velocities, co-PI with P. Jaiswal, $50,000, Devon Energy
2017 Description of Mississippian and Woodford in Core, Collins 15-9-5: Depositional
Facies, Fracturing and Pore Architecture, co-PI with J. Puckette, LINN Energy $20,000
2016-2017 Stratigraphy of Mississippian Strata in Central and Eastern Oklahoma, co-PI with
J. Puckette, $401,344, Devon Energy
2012-2016 Reservoir Distribution and Characterization of Mid-Continent Mississippian
Carbonates – A Major Unconventional Resource Play, P.I., with Co-P.I.’s J.
Puckette, D. Boardman, J. Gregg, and P. Jaiswal, Industry Consortium, $1,130,000.
2014-2016 Reservoir Distribution and Characterization of Mid-Continent Mississippian
Unconventional Carbonates for Newfield Energy, PI D. Boardman, P.I. with coP.I.’s,
J. Puckette, J. Pashin, and T. Quan, $500,000.
2016 Core-based sequence stratigraphy and reservoir characterization, Mississippian
mixed carbonates/siliciclastics, co-P.I. with J. Puckette, LINN Energy $20,000
2014-2016 Reservoir Characterization and Sequence Stratigraphy of Mississippian
Unconventional Carbonates, Devon Energy, co-P.I. with J. Puckette, $200,000.
2009-2011 Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of the Trenton/Black River
Hydrothermal Dolomite Interval, Michigan Basin, P.I. with co-P.I. W.B. Harrison,
Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA), $393,369.
2009-2012 MICHCARB – A Resource Center for Geological Carbon Sequestration Research,
Education and Outreach in Michigan, Department of Energy Earmark, PI D.
Barnes, co-PI’s D. Hampton, M. Grammer and B. Harrison, $601,158
2011 Core Kids – Outreach in Natural Resources for K-12 Teachers and Students,
$60,000, Consumers Energy, co-P.I. with S. Grammer.
2008-2010 Energy and Natural Resources K-12 Outreach Program, DTE Energy, $195,000,
P.I. with co-P.I. S.F. Grammer
2008-2009 CoreKids – Bringing Geoscientists and Geology Resources into the K-12
Environment, Consumers Energy, $50,000, P.I. with co-P.I. S. Grammer
2007 Software donation from Schlumberger (entire Petrel suite for 3-D data
manipulation and modeling), P.I., $1,200,000
2006-2008 Geosciences Energy and Natural Resources Learning Center – Michigan
Geological Repository for Research and Education (MGRRE), $577,000, P.I.,
Congressional Earmark, with co-P.I.’s W.B. Harrison and M. Sultan..
2006-2008 Continuation of Satellite PTTC Facility in Michigan, Michigan Basin Core Research
Laboratory and Department of Geosciences, WMU, P.I., DOE, $45,000
2005-2009 Midwest Region Carbon Sequestration Partnership; Phase II. Subcontract to
Battelle Memorial/ Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory,
$292,754, co-P.I. with D. A. Barnes (P.I.) and W.B. Harrison.
2004-2007 Establishing the Relationship between Fracture-related Dolomite and Primary
Rock Fabric on the Distribution of Reservoirs in the Michigan Basin, DOE, P.I.
$1,033,475, P.I., with co-P.I.’s D.A. Barnes, W.B. Harrison and R. Gillespie.
2004-2005 Midwest Regional Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, co-P.I., with D. A. Barnes (P.I.)
and W.B. Harrison (co-P.I.), Department of Energy, $99,969.
2004-2005 Continuation of Satellite PTTC Facility in Michigan, Michigan Basin Core Research
Laboratory and Department of Geosciences, WMU, P.I., DOE, $70,577
2003 Upgrading Western Michigan University’s Petrographic Capability in
Sedimentology, received donation of approximately $30,000 in the way of
petrographic microscopes and cameras from ChevronTexaco.
1997-99 High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and 3-D Characterization of the
Mississippian Madison Formation through the Integration of Outcrop and
Subsurface Data, Madden Deep Field, Wind River Basin, Wyoming, P.I., Industrial
Consortium, $155,000.
1995-98 High Resolution Stable Isotopic Fluctuations in Tropical Marine Waters
Determined from Inorganic Aragonite Cements: Implications to the Younger Dryas
and other High-Frequency Climatic Events, P.I. (with co-P.I.'s D. F. McNeill and P.
K. Swart), NSF - Global Change Program, $208,455.
1997-98 A Field-Emission Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope: New Frontiers in
the Electron Imaging for Biological and Geological Research, co-P.I. with R. P.
Reid, P. L. Blackwelder, E. C. McKinney, and P. J. Walsh, National Science
Foundation, MRI Program/OSTI, $460,000.
1997-98 Software grant for geophysical and geological reservoir characterization from
Landmark Graphics Corporation, Global University Grant Program, co-P.I. with C.
A. Scholz and G. P. Eberli, value approx. $400,000.
1994-97 Industrial Associates Program of the Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory:
applied sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, and geophysics for petroleum
exploration and production, co-P.I. with G.P. Eberli, D. F. McNeill, and P. K.
Swart. $168,000 per year.
1996-97 Cyclostratigraphic Correlation and Facies Partitioning of Shoreface Sands in a
Cretaceous Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Depositional System, Offshore Angola,
co-P.I. (with G. P. Eberli), Chevron Overseas Petroleum, $25,000.
1996-97 High Resolution Lateral Variability in a Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Sedimentary
System - Applications to Natural Resource Development, P.I., University of
Miami, Research Council Award, $4,930.
1995-97 Acquisition of South Florida Holocene Facies Cores for Educational Materials, P.I.,
Exxon Production Research, $7300.
1995-96 Lateral and Vertical Distribution of Marine Cements along the Margins of
Carbonate Platforms: Implications for Reservoir Modeling - A Pilot Study, P.I.,
Shell Research (The Netherlands), $8000.
1995-96 Intra-annual, Inter-annual, Decadal and Centennial Climate Variations as
Recorded in the Skeletons of Sclerosponges in the Eastern Bahamas and
Caribbean, (co-P.I. with D. F. McNeill and P. K. Swart), NOAA National
Undersea Research Program, $20,302.
1995 Workshop on the Application of High-Resolution Outcrop to Subsurface Sequence
Stratigraphy to Exploration and Production Problems, (co-P.I. with G. P. Eberli),
Elf Aquitaine, Paris and Pau, France, $23,000.
1995 Proposal and Pilot Study for Developing an Integrated Multidisciplinary
Reservoir Characterization Model of Gas-Prone, Cyclic Carbonate Reservoirs,
P.I., (with co-P.I., Gregor Eberli), Intera Information Technologies, $5000.
1993-94 Influence of Rapid Cementation and Sea Level Change on Windward Platform
Margins, Great Bahama Bank, (co-P.I. with D. F. McNeill and R. N. Ginsburg),
NOAA National Undersea Research Program, $15,000.
1992 Characterization of Sedimentary Processes along an Open Windward Margin, Lee
Stocking Island, Bahamas, (co-P.I. with R.N. Ginsburg and D.F. McNeill), NOAA
National Undersea Research Program (NURP), $11,500.
1990 Post-Glacial Evolution of Leeward Platform Margins, Tongue of the Ocean,
Bahamas, with R.N. Ginsburg (P.I.), NOAA/NURP, $48,000.