Lindsay Worthington, an assistant professor in the UNM department, Earth and Planetary Sciences, was awarded an American Chemical Society (ACS) Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) award which is a starter grant awarded to facultyin Ph.D. granting departments. She will receive $110,000 over 3 years to conduct research concerning "Characterizing Basin Structure with Dense Passive Seismic Arrays".

The Petroleum Research Fund was originally established as a Trust by seven major oil companies in 1944. The American Chemical Society, to whom the assets of the Fund were transferred in 2000, is charged with supporting “advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the petroleum field,” including any area of pure science that may lead to further research directly impacting petroleum. Fundamental research is currently supported in chemistry, the earth sciences, chemical and petroleum engineering, and in related fields such as polymers and materials science.

More information about the program and awardees can be found by following the links below. 

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/grants/prf.html

https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/funding/grants/prf/about/2016-grants-listing.pdf