Events

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"

Guest Speaker: Dr. Suzanne Pilaar Birch

110 AIME Building

Assistant 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 Speaker: Dr. Nihat Akyol

110 AIME Building

Kocaeli 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 127

Dr. 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"

Seminar Speakers: Liz Bollen and Daniel McLain

110 AIME Building

Liz Bollen Title: "Garnet large and small: Tracking the thermal history of granulite facies metamorphism with Sm-Nd ages" Daniel McLain: "Determining the Direction of Increasing Depth and TOC of the Chattanooga Shale Using Gamma-Ray, Redox-Sensitive Elements, and Microfossils"