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"
Seminar Speaker: Dr. Yong Zhang
110 AIME BuildingTitle: "Graduate Students: How to Write a Scientific Paper"
Seminar Speakers: Liz Bollen and Daniel McLain
110 AIME BuildingLiz 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"
Seminar Speakers: Greg Gushurst and Jonathan Riddle
110 AIME BuildingGreg Gushurst Title: "Lithospheric Structure and Plate Locking Mechanism of the Central Andes Subduction: Combined Modeling of Satellite and Terrestrial Gravity Data" Jonathan Riddle Title: "Carbonation of Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum for CO2 Sequestration"