Seminar Speaker: Dr. Marcello Minzoni
110 AIME BuildingTitle: "Seismic-Scale Geometries and Sequence-Stratigraphic Architecture of Early Cretaceous Syn-Post Rift Lacustrine Carbonate Systems, Presalt Section, South Atlantic Margins" Abstract: Regional and detailed seismic stratigraphic analyses of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) presalt carbonate sections in the offshore South Atlantic reveal the complex stratigraphic architecture of lacustrine carbonate systems developed during late- and postrift tectonic phases. The
Seminar Speaker: Dr. Harold Stowell
110 AIME BuildingTitle - "Evolving Crustal Architecture in Magmatic Arcs: an Example from Fiordland New Zealand"
Guest Speaker: Gary Steffens
Bevill Room 1000Shell Exploration Manager, Retired Western State Colorado University Adjunct Professor Title: "Energy: The Big Transition, The Future of America's Energy" Hosted by Dr. Marcello Minzoni
Seminar Speaker: Dr. Malcolm Ross
110 AIME BuildingDr. Malcolm Ross Rice University/Adjunct Faculty and Lecturer Shell GameChanger Title: "Some Surprising Ways that Plate Tectonic, Paleogeographic, and Paleoclimatic Models are used in Resource (Hydrocarbon and Mineral) Exploration"
Seminar Speakers: Boone Abbott, Rongchang Liu and Rachel Mohr
110 AIME BuildingBoone Abbott Title: "Quantifying Mass Transfer Processes in Groundwater as a Function of Molecular Structure Variation for Multicomponent NAPL Sources" Rongchang Liu Title: "Seismic Data Decomposition Using Space Dictionary Learning" Rachel Mohr Title: "Evaluating Microstructure Preservation using Scanning Electron Microscopy in an Extinct Bivalve, Lahillia larseni"
Seminar Speaker: Ed Picou
110 AIME BuildingEd Picou Picou Consulting Title: "Micropaleontology and Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico"
Speaker: Dr. Mark Harrison
110 AIME BuildingDr. Mark Harrison Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences UCLA Professor Title: "A New Paradigm for Early Earth" Abstract: The ubiquity of origin myths among human societies suggests that our species has an innate need to explain how Earth formed and came to its present state. The controls on myth fabrication include the limitations of the
Seminar Speakers: Thu Nguyen, Olivia Warren and Peng Shang
110 AIME BuildingThu Nguyen Title: "Reservoir Characterization of the Hartselle Sandstone in the Vicinity of Gorgas Power Plant, Using Amplitude Variation with Offset" Olivia Warren Title: "Quantitative Assessment of Runoff in the Yarlung Zangbo River" Peng Shang Title: "Hydrological Effects on Dissolved Organic Matter Export from a Temperate Forested Watershed across Timelines from Minute to Season"
Seminar Speakers: Man Lu, Kyle Olsen and Hao Wu
110 AIME BuildingMan Lu Title: "Revisiting the early land forest hypothesis for a Late Devonian mass extinction process in the Southern Appalachian Basin using an organic geochemical characterization of the Chattanooga Shale (Frasnian to Famennian)" Kyle Olsen Title: "Paleoenvironment Prediction and Interpretation of the Norphlet Formation" Hao Wu Title: "A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Neural Network for Seismic
Seminar Speaker: Dr. Danny Stockli
110 AIME BuildingUniversity of Texas at Austin Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences Professor Title: "Detrital Geo- and Thermochronometry - Novel Directions in Provenance Studies"