Scarlette Hsia
Field Courses and Short Courses
2024 International Association of Sedimentologists Aberdeen Digital Outcrop Methodology Short Course - led by John Howell and Jessica Pugsley
2023 Caltech Agouron Geobiology Field Course - Montana led by Dr. John Grotzinger and Dr. Woody Fischer
Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup – Helena Formation
Mixed carbonate siliciclastic mapping and measuring sections
2022 International Association of Sedimentologists Field School - Eleuthera, Bahamas led by Dr. Gregor Eberli, Dr. Peter Swart, and Dr. Monica Arienzo
Late Pleistocene carbonates
Examination of lateral and vertical heterogeneity in platform margin grainstone complexes
2019 AAPG Exploration Short Course led by Fred Schroeder
A Petroleum Exploration Overview
2018 INQUA Summer School - Sardinia, Italy led by Dr. Alessio Rovere and Dr. Matteo Vacchi
Education, Outreach, and DEI Efforts
2024 – NAGT co-author of poster titled "Field Notes from the Geoscience Classroom - by the June 2023 & January 2024 NAGT Outstanding Teaching Assistants"
2024 – Facilitator and Graduate Research Assistant for Jackson School of Geosciences Research Experience for Undergraduates (9 week summer program)
2023 – Graduate Research Assistant and coordinator for Undergraduate Research Experience (RTX), Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin (9 week summer program)
2023 – Co-organizer of DEI SUMMIT, University of California, San Diego
2020-2023 - NSF Grant (#2131206+2131066 Awarded $99,669) “Collaborative Research: Proposal for a
SUMMIT to Plan a Conference Workshop for Minoritized Geoscientists.”
· Co-writer and Co-lead among Co-PIs Dr. Vanshan Wright (University of California, San Diego), and Dr. Kevin Kwong (University of Washington)
2019-2022 - GeoFORCE, The University of Texas at Austin
Instructor (2022)
10th Grade Austin Academy
9th Grade Houston Academy
Educational Coach (2019, 2020)
12th Grade Houston Academy
11th Grade Southwest Academy
Panelist; Applying to Graduate School sponsored by JSG and GeoFORCE (2019)
2021 – Bystander Intervention Training (participant)
2021 – Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (participant)
2019 - Evolution of student engagement, interest and perception of geoscience during challenge-based courses: Insights from the GeoFORCE Texas Program: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts, ED53D-0879;
Photos taken by Scarlette Hsia
News Articles
Ten square miles over millions of years, mapping Little Cayman Island formation - The Daily Texan
Recent Awards
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Outstanding TA
2023
UT Austin Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Outstanding TA
2023
AAPG Graduate Research Grant
2022
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
2019-2022
Dean′s Prestigious Fellowship
2019-2022
Muehlberger Field Scholarship Endowment Fellowship
2021
DeFord Ronald Field Scholarship
2021