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a National Science Foundation
(NSF)
meeting held in Logan, Utah, August 23–25,
Bridget Scanlon presented
a poster with Andrew Sansom
(Texas State University)
titled “Proposed
Texas Hydrologic Observatory: San Antonio and Guadalupe
Watersheds and Underlying Aquifers.”
NSF is seeking to fund two
hydrologic observatories, and
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together with Texas A&M, Texas State University,
The University of Texas at San Antonio, as well as other institutions,
are working together to submit a proposal. Detailed information
about the hydrologic observatories, which will be funded in
February 2005, is posted on the Website
of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement
of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI).
08/31/04
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Sego
Sandstone field trip
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Dr.
Lesli Wood participated in the recent SEPM
(Society for Sedimentary Geology) conference,
“Recent Advances
in Shoreline-Shelf Stratigraphy,”
which was held in Grand Junction, Colorado, August 24–28,
2004. Lesli’s focus was the Upper Cretaceous Sego
Sandstone. She presented a paper, “Systematic
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Architectural
Trends
in a
Tidally Influenced Shelf and Shoreline System: Sego Sandstone,
Eastern Utah, U.S.A.,” and
co-led a field trip to outcrops of the rock unit. [Abstract]
08/31/04
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part of the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory
research program, Senior Research Scientist Martin
P. A. Jackson spent 3 weeks in June and July on Axel
Heiberg Island and adjoining northern Ellesmere Island in
Arctic Canada, collaborating with Dr. Christopher
Harrison of the Geological
Survey of Canada (Calgary). They mapped some
of the 40 diapirs of Carboniferous evaporites exposed at the
surface. Click
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Martin Jackson at Otto Fiord at 9:30 p.m. local time. |
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Preparing to hunt the elusive Terrapene
coahuila turtle.
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Roberto
Gutierrez recently returned from a meeting
and presentation at Cuatro Ciéngas de Carranza,
Coahuila, México, sponsored by the Nature
Conservancy and the Comisión Nacional de Áreas
Naturales Protegidas: Congreso de Investigadores Cuatro
Ciénegas 2004.
Roberto was invited by Dean Hendrickson,
UT School of
Biological
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Sciences, Integrative Biology, to
speak about lidar mapping. The meeting included a visit to a
part of the wetlands in the valley accompanied by UT biology
graduate student Jennifer Howeth, who is studying
the rare and endangered box turtle, Terrapene coahuila.
08/17/04
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| Alan
Dutton, a BEG researcher since 1982, accepted a position
as Associate Professor in the Department
of Earth and Environmental Science at The University of Texas
at San Antonio. Alan will be continuing his
research on groundwater and teaching courses in hydrogeology
and groundwater modeling. 08/16/04 |
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Bureau
scientist Bill Ambrose has been awarded
the A. I. Levorsen Memorial Award for Best Paper
by the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists. The award recognizes “creative
thinking toward new ideas in exploration.” Bill’s
paper is titled “Miocene
Valley-Fill, Slope,
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Systems in the Laguna Madre-Tuxpan Area, Mexico.”
He will receive the award at the 2004 GCAGS annual convention
on October 10 in San Antonio. (Abstract)
08/12/04
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Research Scientists Bob Loucks and Charles
Kerans were chosen to receive the Second Place
2003 GCAGS/Gulf Coast Section SEPM Gordon I. Atwater Best
Poster Award for their poster titled “Lower
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Glen Rose ‘Patch Reef'
Reservoir in the Chittim Field, Maverick
County, Texas.” The award will be presented
at the 2004 GCAGS annual convention on October 10 in San Antonio.
(Abstract)
08/12/04
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Bureau
Director Scott Tinker delivered the keynote
lunch address to 700 people at the joint Rocky Mountain
Section AAPG and Colorado Oil and Gas Association
meeting in Denver, Colorado, on August 10, 2004. The keynote
address was
titled “Unconventional
Gas and Global Energy: Is It Mountain Standard Time?”
(Abstract)
08/12/04
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summer, Jerry Lucia was invited to present
a summary of the RCRL research results on characterizing
touching vugs at the Society
of Exploration Geophysicists summer research
workshop, “Characterization
of Fractured Reservoirs.” The workshop
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Jerry’s presentation, titled
“Fractures to Caves to Fractures: the Touching-Vug Pore
System,” was well received and generated
considerable discussion. 08/10/04 |
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BEG
researchers Hongliu Zeng and Charles
Kerans have been selected by the AAPG Executive
Committee to receive the prestigious
Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award.
Their article, “Seismic
Frequency Control on Carbonate Seismic Stratigraphy: a
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Study of the Kingdom Abo Sequence,
West Texas,” was judged
Best Original Article published in the AAPG Bulletin in 2003.
They will be presented with the award during the opening session
at the annual meeting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in June 2005.
08/03/04
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