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"
Seminar Speakers: Dilan Gizem Uyaroglu and Carmen Atkins
110 AIME BuildingDilan 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"
Guest Speaker: Dr. Suzanne Pilaar Birch
110 AIME BuildingAssistant Professor Department of Anthropology Department of Geography University of Georgia Title: "Dwarf Deer and Pygmy Hippos: The Isotope Paleoecology of Pleistocene Mammals from Ghar Dalam, Malta"
Seminar Speakers: Imperial Barrel Award – Team Presentations
110 AIME BuildingIBA Team - Lauren Parker, Yihuai Lou, Adlai Fonseca, Alaina Smith and Leah Travis Taylor Title: "Petroleum System Analysis: Noord Holland, Netherlands"
Seminar Speaker: Dr. Nihat Akyol
110 AIME BuildingKocaeli University, Turkey Department of Geological Engineering Associate Professor of Contaminant Hydrogeology Title: "Surfactant-enhanced Permanganate Oxidation on Mass-flux Reduction and Mass Removal (MFR-MR) Relationship for Pool-dominated TCE Source Zones in Heterogeneous Porous Media" Abstract: Chlorinated solvents generally enter the subsurface as dense-non aqueous phase liquids (DNAPL) and accumulation mostly occurs in aquifers as pool-dominated zones
Seminar Speakers: Dr. Hansen, Dr. Stowell, Dr. Tobin, Dr. Becky Minzoni and Dr. Robinson
Biology 127Dr. Sam Hansen "The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment" Dr. Harold Stowell "A week in the life of a Geologist" Dr. Tom Tobin "The record of the End Cretaceous Mass Extinction from Antarctica" Dr. Becky Minzoni "Antarctic cruise and Thwaites Glacier research" Dr. Delores Robinson "Explorations in Geology"