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• AAPG Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award - American Association of Petroleum Geologists (01/01/2022-12/31/2022)
• 2020 ACS Presidential Symposium Invited Panelist - American Chemical Society (08/01/2020-08/31/2020)
• 2020 Distinguished Alumni University of Wisconsin, Madison (12/01/2019-12/31/2019)
• AAPG Award of Excellence Top 10 Poster Presentation 2015 Annual Meeting - AAPG (06/01/2015-06/30/2015)
• Keynote Address - New Mexico Geological Society (04/01/2014-04/30/2014)
• Elected Chair - Sedimentary Geology Division, Geological Society of America (10/01/2013-10/31/2013)
• AAPG Top 10 Presentation 2012 Annual Meeting - American Association of Petroleum Geologists (05/10/2013)
• AAPG Shelton Search and Discovery Award - AAPG (01/01/2012-12/31/2012)
• Lloyd A. Nelson Professorship - The University of Texas at El Paso (05/01/2012)

• Ph D in Geology, University of Arizona (1991)
• MS in Geology, University of Iowa (1985)
• BS in Geology, University of Wisconsin (1981)

• Different Scales of Salt-Sediment Interaction Flanking Passive Diapirs AAPG Bulletin (in press), Mark G. Rowan, Kate A. Giles.
• Burial Wedges -- Evidence for Prolonged Progressive Burial of the Paradox Basin Salt Walls - with a Detailed Example from Gypsum Valley, Colorado Basin Research (2022), Richard P. Langford, Katherine A. Giles, Mark G. Rowan, Josh McFarland, Liz Heness, David Lankford-Bravo, Jessica Thompson-Jobe, Alondra Soltero, Claire Bailey.
• Interpreting the Nature of the Aulet and Adons Diapirs, from Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Analysis of Flanking Minibasin Strata, Spanish Pyrenees, Catalunya, Spain Journal of Sedimentary Research 92 (2022), C. Evelyn Gannaway, Kate A. Giles, Josep Anton Munoz, Mark G. Rowan.
• Different scales of salt-sediment interaction around passive diapirs EGU Assemby 2021 (2021), Mark Rowan, Kate A. Giles.
• The Transition from Salt Diapir to Weld and Thrust: Examples from the Northern Flinders Ranges in South Australia Basin Research 00 (2021), Oakar Vidal-Royo, Mark G. Rowan, Oriol Ferrer, Mark P. Fischer, J. Carl Fiduk, David P. Canova, Thomas E. Hearon IV, Katherine A. Giles.
• Passive Versus Active Diaipirism AAPG Bulletin 105 1 (2021), Mark G. Rowan, Kate A. Giles.
• Folding and fracturing of rocks adjacent to salt diapirs Journal of Structural Geology V. 141 (2020), Mark G. Rowan, Josep Anton Munoz, Kate A. Giles, Eduard Roca, Thomas Hearon, Joseph C. Fiduk, Oriol Ferrer, Mark Fischer.
• Salt tectonics and controls on halokinetic -sequences development of an exposed deepwater diapir: The Bakio Diapir, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Pyrenees Marine and Petroleum Geology 123 (2020), Eduard Roca, Oriol Ferrer, Mark G. Rowan, Josep Anton Muñoz, Mireia Butillé, Kate A. Giles, Pau Arbués, Marco de Matteis.
• Celebrating 65 Years of ACS PRF Grants Journal of the American Chemical Society (2020), Katherine A. Giles.
• Sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and structural evolution of minibasins and a megaflap formed during passive salt diapirism: The Neoproterozoic Witchelina diapir, Willouran Ranges, South Australia Journal of Sedimentary Research 90 (2020), Cora E. Gannaway Dalton, Katherine A. Giles, Mark Rowan, Richard P. Langford, Thomas Hearon, J. C. Fiduc.
• ACS Petroleum Research Fund: 65 Years of Sowing Seeds American Chemical Society Chemical & Engineering News 98 21 (2020), Katherine A. Giles.
• Sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and structural evolution of minibasins and a megaflap formed during passive salt diapirism: The Neoproterozoic Witchelina diapir, Willouran Ranges, South Australia Journal of Sedimentary Research 90 (2020), C. Evelyn Gannaway Dalton, Katherine Giles, Richard Langford, Mark G. Rowan, Thomas E. Hearon, J.C. Fiduk.
• Evolution of Megaflaps, Extensional-Rollover Subbasins, and Salt- Withdrawal Minibasins at Aulet and Adons Diapirs in the Spanish Pyrenees, Catalunya 2019 GCS-SEPM Perkins Conference, SALT TECTONICS, ASSOCIATED PROCESSES AND EXPLORATION POTENTIAL: REVISITED: 1989-2019 (2019), C. E. Gannaway Dalton, Kate A. Giles, Josep A. Munoz, Mark G. Rowan.
• Salt-Sediment Interaction: Lessons Learned from La Popa Basin, Mexico 2019 GCS-SEPM Perkins Conference; SALT TECTONICS, ASSOCIATED PROCESSES AND EXPLORATION POTENTIAL: REVISITED: 1989-2019 (2019), Kate A. Giles, Mark G. Rowan, Timothy F. Lawton.
• Synthesizing Old Questions with New Developments in Caprock Research: Is it Time to Abandon Well-Trodden Paths? 2019 GCS-SEPM Perkins Conference; SALT TECTONICS, ASSOCIATED PROCESSES AND EXPLORATION POTENTIAL: REVISITED: 1989-2019 (2019), Benjamin Brunner, Amanda L. Labrado, Gail Arnold, Julia Astromovich, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Kate A. Giles.
• Synthesizing Old Questions with New Developments in Caprock Research: Is it Time to Abandon Well-Trodden Paths? 2019 GCS-SEPM Perkins Conference; SALT TECTONICS, ASSOCIATED PROCESSES AND EXPLORATION POTENTIAL: REVISITED: 1989-2019 (2019), Benjamin Brunner, Amanda L. Labrado, Gail Arnold, Julia Astromovich, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Kate A. Giles.
• Structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Megaflap-Bearing Sinbad Valley salt wall, NE Paradox Basin, Colorado Geosphere (2019) 16 (2019), Jessica Thompson, Katherine A. Giles, Thomas E. Hearon, Mark G. Rowan, Bruce Trudgill, C. Evelyn Gannaway-Dalton, Zane R. Jobe.
• CARBONATES ADJACENT TO GYPSUM IN THE PARADOX BASIN - OH CAPROCK, WHEREFORE ART THOU? Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (in press), Amanda Labrado, Benjamin Brunner, Kate A. Giles.
• IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF LATERAL CARBONATE CAPROCK: GYPSUM VALLEY SALT WALL, PARADOX BASIN, COLORADO Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), Piper Poe, Kate A. Giles, Benjamin Brunner, Rachelle Kernen.
• CHARACTERIZATION OF SYNDEPOSITIONAL DEFORMATION IN THE PERMIAN CUTLER FORMATION, NORTHERN MARGIN ONION CREEK DIAPIR, PARADOX BASIN, UT Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), DAVID LANKFORD-BRAVO, Kate A. Giles, Richard P. Langford.
• FLUVIAL SANDSTONE DISTRIBUTION IN THE JURASSIC SALT WASH MEMBER OF THE MORRISON FORMATION AROUND THE GYPSUM VALLEY SALT DIAPIR Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), CLAIRE H. Bailey, Richard P. Langford, Kate A. Giles.
• FLUVIAL SANDSTONE DISTRIBUTION IN THE JURASSIC SALT WASH MEMBER OF THE MORRISON FORMATION AROUND THE GYPSUM VALLEY SALT DIAPIR Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), CLAIRE H. Bailey, Richard P. Langford, Kate A. Giles.
• IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF LATERAL CARBONATE CAPROCK: GYPSUM VALLEY SALT WALL, PARADOX BASIN, COLORADO Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), PIPER L. Poe, Kate A. Giles, Benjamin Brunner, RAHELLE A. KERNEN.
• IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF LATERAL CARBONATE CAPROCK: GYPSUM VALLEY SALT WALL, PARADOX BASIN, COLORADO Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), PIPER L. Poe, Kate A. Giles, Benjamin Brunner, RACHELLE A. KERNEN.
• MEGAFLAPS IN THE PARADOX BASIN Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), Jessica A. Thompson Jobe , Kate A. Giles, Mark G. Rowan, Thomas E. Hearon.
• STRATIGRAPHIC RESPONSE TO THE DIFFERENTIAL RISE OF THE GYPSUM VALLEY SALT WALL, JURASSIC ENTRADA/CARMEL FORMATIONS, PARADOX BASIN, COLORADO Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), RAFAEL A. Delfin, Richard P. Langford, Kate A. Giles.
• SUPRA-SALT SYNDEPOSITIONAL FOLDING IN THE JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION, BIG GYPSUM VALLEY, COLORADO Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), ALONDRA Soltero, Richard P. Langford, Kate A. Giles.
• RECOGNITION OF PASSIVE SALT DIAPIRISM IN THE ROCK RECORD AAPG Search and Discovery (2019), Katherine Giles, Mark G. Rowan.
• Origin of the Neoproterozoic rim dolomite as lateral carbonate caprock, Patawarta salt sheet, Flinders Ranges, South Australia Australian Journal of Earth Sciences Special Edition (2019), Rachelle A. Kernen, Kate A. Giles, Piper L. Poe, C. Evelyn Gannaway-Dalton, Mark G. Rowan, Thomas E. Hearon, IV, J. C. Fiduk.
• A review of allochthonous salt tectonics in the Flinders and Willouran ranges, South Australia Australian Journal of Earth Sciences Special Edition (2019), Mark Rowan, Thomas Hearon, IV, Rachelle Kernen, Katherine Giles, Evelyn Gannaway, Nicholas Williams, J.C. Fiduk, Timothy Lawton, Tyler Hannah, .
• Lateral terminations of salt walls and megaflaps: An example from Gypsum Valley Diapir, Paradox Basin, Colorado, USA Basin Research 31 1 (2019), Frederic O. Escosa, Mark G. Rowan, Kate A. Giles, Kyle T. Deatrick, Allison M. Mast, Richard P. Langford, Thomas E. Hearon, Eduard Roca.
• Multiple Stages of Syndepositional Halokinetic (?) Deformation in the Permian Cutler Formation, Northern Margin of the Onion Creek Diapir, Paradox Basin, UT (2019), David Lankford-Bravo, Kate A. Giles, Richard P. Langford.
• The Paradox Basin Revealed Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019 (2019), Jessica A. Thompson Jobe, Katherine Giles.
• Lateral terminations of salt walls and megaflaps: An example from Gypsum Valley Diapir, Paradox Basin, Colorado, USA Basin Research (2018), Frederic O. Escosa, Mark G. Rowan, Katherine A. Giles, Kyle T. Deatrick, Allison M. Mast, Richard P. Langford, Thomas E. Hearon, Eduard Roca.
• Lateral terminations of salt walls and megaflaps: An example from Gypsum Valley Diapir, Paradox Basin, Colorado, USA Basin Research 31 (2018), Frederic O. Escosa, Mark G. Rowan, Katherine A. Giles, Kyle T. Deatrick, Allison M. Mast, Richard P. Langford, Thomas E. Hearon, Eduard Roca.
• Halokinetic Features in the Paradox Basin, Utah and Colorado AAG Search & Discovery, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City (2018), Jessica Thompson-Jobe, Katherine Giles, Thomas Hearone, Bruce Trudgill, Mark Rowan, Richard Langford, .
• Identification of Lateral Carbonate Caprock flanking Paradox Basin Salt Walls, Utah and Colorado AAPG Serch & Discovery, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City (2018), Piper Poe, Katherine Giles, Benjamin Brunner, Kevin Lerer, Rachelle Kernen, Amanda Labrado.
• Origin of the ‘Rim Dolomite’ at the Salt-Sediment Interface of Patawarta Allochthonous Salt Sheet, Flinders Ranges, South Australia AAPG Search & Discovery, Annual Meeting Salt Lake City (2018), Rachelle Kernen, Katherine Giles, Piper Poe, Carl Fiduk, Thomas Hearon, Mark Rowan.
• Shoulder Formation in the Paradox Basin: A Record of Progressive Diapir Narrowing and Minibasin Expansion AAPG Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City (2018), Richard Langford, Katherine Giles, Jessica Thompson-Jobe, Mark Rowan.
• Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Sinbad Valley Salt Wall, NE Paradox Basin, SW Colorado AAPG Search & Discovery, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City (2018), Jessica Thompson-Jobe, Katherine Giles, Thomas Hearon, Bruce Trudgill, Evelyn Gannaway, Zane Jobe, Mark Rowan.
• The Tale of 3 Megaflaps, Paradox Salt Basin, Utah and Colorado AAPG, Search and Discovery, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City (2018), Kate Grisi, Kyle Deatrick, Jessica Thompson-Jobe, Katherine Giles.
• Three-dimensional geometry at the termination of the Gypsum Valley salt wall and megaflap, Paradox Basin, Colorado AAPG Search & Discovery, Annual meeting Salt Lake City (2018), Frederic Escosa, Katherine Giles, Mark Rowan , Kyle Deatrick, Allison Mast, Richard Langford, Thomas Hearon.
• Precambrian Basement Rocks and Overlying Passive Margin Rocks of the Bliss Sandstone, El Paso Ellenburger Group and Montoya Group AAPG SW Section Fieldtrip Guide (2018), Mike Pope, Katherine Giles.
• Origin, Characteristics, and Distribution of Intrasalt Non-Halite Stratal Packages at Patawarta Diapir, Flinders Ranges, South Australia Rachelle The Geological Survey of Israel Abstract (2018), Rachelle A. Kernen, Kate A. Giles, Mark G. Rowan.
• Halokinetic Features in the Paradox Basin, Utah and Colorado (2018), Jessica A. Thompson, Kate A. Giles, Thomas E. Hearon, Bruce Trudgill, Mark G. Rowan, Richard P. Langford.
• Shoulder Formation in the Paradox Basin: A Record of Progressive Diapir Narrowing and Minibasin Expansion (2018), Richard P. Langford, Kate A. Giles, Jessica A. Thompson, Mark G. Rowan.
• The Paradox Salt Basin, Utah and Colorado: Recognition of New Types of Salt Features and Their Impact on Salt-Related Traps (2018), Kate A. Giles, Thomas E. Hearon, Mark G. Rowan, Richard P. Langford.

• The Tale of Two Hydrocarbons – News from Damon Mound, Texas (2020), Amanda Labrado, Benjamin Brunner, Antoine Cremiere, Stefano Bernasconi, Joern Peckmann, Kate A. Giles.
• Some like it hot: formation temperatures of carbonate caprock formation
 (2020), Volume Galveston, Texas, Amanda L. Labrado, Benjamin Brunner, Antoine Cremiere, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Kate A. Giles.
• Identification of microbially mediated formation of Carbonate Caprock at Salt Domes (2020), Volume Galveston, Texas, Amanda L. Labrado, Benjamin Brunner, Kate A. Giles.
• Synthesizing old questions with new developments in caprock research: is it time to abandon well-trodden paths? (2019), Volume Houston, Texas, Benjamin Brunner, , Gail Arnold, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Kate A. Giles.
• Thermochemical or bacterial sulfate reduction: determining the driver of native sulfur formation in the subsurface (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Amanda L. Labrado, Benjamin Brunner, Antoine Cremiere, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Kate A. Giles.
• Geochemical fingerprints of anaerobic native sulfur formation in the subsurface (2019), Volume Seattle, WA, Amanda L. Labrado, Benjamin Brunner, Antoine Cremiere, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Kate A. Giles.
• Microbial native sulfur formation in the subsurface without oxygen (2018), Volume Washington, DC, Amanda L. Labrado, Benjamin Brunner, Kate A. Giles, Stefano Bernasconi, Jörn Peckmann.
• Carbonates Adjacent to Gypsum in the Paradox Basin To Caprock or Not to Caprock? (2018), Volume Houston, TX, Amanda L. Labrado, Piper Poe, Alison Mast, Kevin Lerer, Benjamin Brunner, Kate A. Giles.
• Evidence Supporting the Drape-Fold Model for Lateral Caprock Emplacement: Gypsum Valley Salt Wall, Paradox Basin, CO (2018), Volume Houston, TX, Piper Poe, Kate A. Giles, Benjamin Brunner, Troy Rasbury, James Edmond.
• Classification of caprock associated with salt diapirs (2018), Volume El Paso, TX, Piper Poe, Kate A. Giles, Benjamin Brunner, Rachelle Kernen, Amanda L. Labrado, Kevin Lererer.
• Dynamics of carbonate caprock formation at Damon Mound, TX reconstructed by sulfur, carbon, and oxygen stable isotope geochemistry (2018), Volume El Paso, TX, Amanda L. Labrado, Benjamin Brunner, Piper Poe, Kate A. Giles, Stefano Bernasconi.
• Two distinct mineralogical assemblages of caprocks on salt domes reveal fundamental differences in fluid flow at salt diapirs (2018), Volume El Paso, TX, Benjamin Brunner, Kate A. Giles, Rachelle Kernen, Amanda L. Labrado, Kevin Lerer, Piper Poe, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Jörn Peckmann.
• Spatial and temporal patterns of newly recognized halokinetic features in the Paradox Salt Basin, Utah and Colorado, USA (2018), Volume Isreal, Katherine Giles.
• Microbial Formation of Elemental Sulfur in Carbonate Caprock in Absence of an Oxidant (2018), Volume Galveston TX, Amanda L. Labrado, Benjamin Brunner, Kate A. Giles, Jörn Peckmann.

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