Alexandra "Ali" Snell
  • Graduate Student

Biography

Advisors: Julie Newman and David Sparks 

Courses

Courses as Guest Lecturer:

  • Disasters and Society, Texas A&M University (Spring 2020)
  • Mineralogy, Texas A&M University (Spring 2019)
  • Introduction to the Solid Earth, Texas A&M University (Fall 2018)
  • Field Camp, Texas A&M University (Summer 2017)
  • Structure and Tectonics, Texas A&M University (Spring 2017)

Courses as Teaching Assistant:

  • Structure and Tectonics, Texas A&M University (Spring 2019)
  • Introduction to the Solid Earth, Texas A&M University (Fall 2018)
  • Field Camp, Texas A&M University (Summer 2017, 2018)
  • Mineralogy, Texas A&M University (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, 2019)

Research Interests

  • Structural Geology
  • Tectonics
  • Planetary Geology
  • Geoscience Education

Educational Background

  • B.S. in Geology from the College of William & Mary

Awards & Honors

  • Texas A&M Academic Excellence Award Claude Scruggs Scholarship (2021 – 2022)

  • Geological Society of America Research Grant (2020 – 2021)

  • Geological Society of America Parke D. Snavely, Jr., Cascadia Research Award (2020 – 2021)

  • Texas A&M PhD Outstanding Service Award (2019 –  2020)

  • College of Geosciences Diversity and Climate Ideas Challenge Grant (2019 – 2021)

  • Texas A&M M.T. Halbouty ’30/AAPG Foundation Endowed Fellowship (2019 – 2020)

  • Department of Geology & Geophysics Fellowship (2019 – 2020)

  • Texas A&M M.T. Halbouty ’30/AAPG Foundation Endowed Fellowship (2018 – 2019)

  • Texas A&M PhD Outstanding Teaching Award (2017 –  2018)

  • Texas A&M Chevron Fellowship (2016 – 2017)

  • Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Award for Leadership and Academic Excellence (2009 – 2010)

  • Ellen Stofan Fund Research Scholarship (2009 – 2010)