The Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, is celebrating its Centennial in 2009. A major research unit at the university, the Bureau also serves as the Texas State Geological Survey. Dr. Scott Tinker is the Bureau’s Director and State Geologist.

To commemorate passage into our next 100 years, we are introducing a lecture program featuring the Bureau’s most esteemed scientists. The lectures, free to those who host the event, are by invitation only, and we hope that you will take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn about the exciting research in which the Bureau is currently involved. The Bureau will pay for the lecturer’s travel costs, including hotel.

This site includes a listing of our Distinguished Lecturers, lecture titles, abstracts, and biographical information. Registration for hosting a lecture is available online, and you will be contacted soon after you register.

Join in the Bureau’s Centennial celebration by hosting one of our Distinguished Lectures!

         
Lecturer (click name for bio & abstracts) Lecture Titles
Lesli Wood
LW1. Deltas on Mars: A Martian History of Standing Water and Moving Sediments
LW2. Seismic Geomorphology: Visualizing the Future of Paleo-Landscape Research
Bridget Scanlon
BS1. Sustainability of Water Resources Related to Agriculture in Semiarid Regions: Case Study Texas Southern High Plains
Steve Ruppel
SR1. Geological approaches to characterization and modeling of Permian platform carbonate reservoirs.
SR2. Understanding black shale successions: Lessons and questions from the Barnett and other Paleozoic mudrocks
Jerry Lucia
JL1. Locating Remaining Oil in Carbonate Reservoirs: The Reservoir Characterization Problem
Bob Loucks
BL1.Geology of the Mississippian Barnett Shale-Gas Play in Texas: Regional Setting, Sedimentology, and Pore Networks
BL2. Origin of Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group Brecciated and Fractured Strata in West Texas; Paleokarst, Thermobaric, and/or Tectonic
Steve Laubach
SL1. Structural diagenesis: An integrated investigative approach to coupled chemical and mechanical processes in sedimentary systems
SL2. Applications of structural diagenesis to predicting and assessing reservoir quality in unconventional and fractured reservoirs
Charlie Kerans
CK1: A Global Perspective on Carbonate Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: Challenges and Potential
Martin Jackson
MJ1. Continental-Scale Salt Tectonics on Mars and the Origin of Outburst Channels
MJ2. How and where is the Sigsbee Escarpment Advancing?
Michael Hudec

MH1. Structural style and evolution of thrust systems driven by spreading of allochthonous salt sheets
Sue Hovorka
SH1. Put it back: Geologic sequestration for greenhouse gas emissions reductions
SH2. Risks and benefits of  geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide – how do the pieces fit together?
Bob Hardage
BH1. Expanding Seismic Stratigraphy to the Full-Elastic Wavefield
BH2. Deepwater Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico
Sergey Fomel
SF1.Seismic Data Patterns
Shirley Dutton
SD1. Reservoir quality and pore-type evolution in Tertiary Wilcox sandstones of the northern Texas Gulf of Mexico coast during burial from 0.2 to 6.6 km