Events

Seminar Speaker: Dr. Harold Stowell

110 AIME Building

Title - "Evolving Crustal Architecture in Magmatic Arcs: an Example from Fiordland New Zealand"

Guest Speaker: Gary Steffens

Bevill Room 1000

Shell 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 Building

Dr. 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 Building

Boone 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 Building

Ed Picou Picou Consulting Title: "Micropaleontology and Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico"

Speaker: Dr. Mark Harrison

110 AIME Building

Dr. 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 Building

Thu 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 Building

Man 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 Building

University of Texas at Austin Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences Professor Title: "Detrital Geo- and Thermochronometry - Novel Directions in Provenance Studies"

Seminar Speakers: Dilan Gizem Uyaroglu and Carmen Atkins

110 AIME Building

Dilan Gizem Uyaroglu Title: "Structural Evolution of the Central Tuzgolu Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey" Carmen Atkins Title: "Characterizing the Seismic Signature of a Cambrian Microbialite Exposure, Wilberns Formation, Mason, Texas"