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Bureau welcomes David Jordan to the Media
and Information Technologies group as its GIS
programmer. David holds a B.S. degree in Geological Sciences
from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master's
in Applied Geography (M.A.G.) from Texas State University,
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geography, and at the Bureau he will focus on developing Internet-
and network-based mapping systems and GIS applications. 07/28/04 |
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A
poster produced by UT Graduate Student Kristine
L. Mize and coauthors Lesli J. Wood
and Paul Mann received the SEPM
Best Poster Award at the 2004 AAPG/SEPM
meeting. The poster is titled “Controls
on the Morphology and
Development of Deep-Marine Channels,
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Nearly 230 posters were presented at this annual
meeting. 07/22/04 |
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Graduate Students and Deep-Marine
Depositional Margins researchers are getting
noticed! Sean Sullivan received a $500 award from the
Earth and Space |
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for a study titled “Mud Volcanoes
on Earth and Mars.”
In the study, Sean will investigate possible similarities between
mud volcanoes in offshore Trinidad and certain features on Mars.
He will present his work at the December 2004 GCS/SEPM meeting.
For more information, click
here.
Lorena
Moscardelli has been invited to present her poster,
“Debris Flow Processes
and Architecture,”
at the AAPG Prospect and Property
Expo (APPEX),
which will be meeting September 14–16 in Houston. The
poster, coauthored by Lesli Wood and Paul
Mann, scored high when it was evaluated for an award
at the AAPG annual meeting. 07/22/04 |
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Mike
Hudec recently traveled to the offices of AGL
sponsors for presentations and meetings. Mike spent June
30 and July 1 at the offices of BP
in Houston as a participant in an in-house Salt Tectonics
Symposium, during which he presented “Near-Salt
Deformation: Formation of Subsalt Disturbed
Zones during Salt-Sheet Advance.” Later
in July, 13–14, Mike visited the offices
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Forest Oil International
in Denver to discuss salt tectonics in offshore Gabon. 07/22/04 |
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| Bureau
Director Scott Tinker
is in Salt Lake City, Utah, attending the National Conference
of State Legislators on behalf of the American Association
of State Geologists (AASG). Scott, who was recently
elected Vice President of AASG, is representing the AASG in
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with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the
American Institute of Petroleum Geologists. 07/20/04
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The lucky raffle winners of a Campo del Cielo iron meteorite
donated by John Curchin. Proceeds from the raffle will
go toward the Austin ESW career fair for middle school
students and the middle school library book drive.
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On
Thursday, July 15, 2004, in the Texas
Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
auditorium, more than 200 Central Texans attended a
lecture titled Space
Rocks! that was sponsored by the
Austin Earth Science Week (ESW) Consortium, the Bureau
of Economic Geology, and TxDOT. John
Curchin from USGS
gave a presentation on meteorites,
a topic on which he
is
an expert. John’s presentation also included an
update of the Cassini Spacecraft program, in which,
as part of a team at USGS, John is downloading and |
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reviewing images from Saturn. He displayed some of his meteorites
at the event and showed images of Saturn that were seen by the
public for the very first time. 07/19/04
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On
behalf of the Reservoir Characterization Research
Laboratory (RCRL), Jerry
Lucia recently traveled to several European
cities consortium. His work included a 2-day seminar
for members of the Institute
for Geology and Mining of Spain in Madrid
titled “Carbonate
Reservoir
Characterization,”
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meetings
with RCRL sponsors in Milan (AGIP) and London (BP). 07/19/04
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The
Bureau welcomes Joseph (Jiandong) Su
to the Media and Information Technologies
group as its new database programmer and software systems
developer. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science
and engineering from Beijing
Polytechnic University and has been professionally
certified by Microsoft,
SUN, and
Oracle. Joseph
has extensive experience |
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consulting for various companies in Texas and will focus on
development of database-driven software at the Bureau. 07/12/04 |
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| Nathan
Ivicic is the new Technical Staff Assistant for
the Bureau’s Core Research
Center in Austin. Nathan earned an Associate
of Arts degree (2001) from Temple
College and a B.S. degree in Government
from The University of Texas
at Austin (2003). While attending UT,
Nathan was named to the National Society of Collegiate
Scholars. Also while still a student, Nathan was a |
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for the MIT group here at the Bureau. Welcome back, Nathan!
07/12/04 |
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Dr.
Ian Duncan became the BEG’s Associate
Director for Environment and Earth Systems on July 1,
replacing Jay Raney who served in this
role for nearly 10 years. Ian comes to the Bureau after
10 years as a Scientist Manager at the Virginia
Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy Division of
Mineral Resources. He also worked as
a geology professor at SMU in Dallas
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and Washington
University
in St Louis. Ian’s interests lie in environmental geology,
remote sensing, carbon sequestration, and geoinformatics. 07/08/04
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| Deep-Marine
Depositional Margins researcher Lorena
Moscardelli presents her research to the MSEA
student group at the TACC Visualization Facility. MSEA
is a precollege outreach program known as the Mathematics,
Science, and Engineering Academy (MSEA).
The goal of MSEA is to create a continuous pipeline of
minority and female students, |
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from ninth grade through the Ph.D. level, to major in mathematics,
science, technology, and engineering. The Jackson School
is partnering with Fort Valley
State University in Georgia to host MSEA students
for a week of intense summer training. Click
here for more information on Deep-Marine Depositional
Margins. 07/02/04
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