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Bureau is proud to announce the promotion of Dr.
Stephen C. Ruppel to Senior Research Scientist.
This promotion is equivalent to Full Professor in the
University. Steve has acquired international recognition
for his pioneering research on silica-rich depositional
systems, and this research, based on years of work on
the Devonian chert in the Permian Basin, has produced
many of the basic concepts for our understanding of this
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complex system. He is also recognized as an expert in applying
radiogenic isotopes to stratigraphy and in carbonate reservoir
characterization. He is widely published and has received a
variety of awards, including the AAPG’s prestigious Wallace
E. Pratt Award for Best Published Paper. Steve is currently
Principal Investigator of the Fullerton Field (West Texas) reservoir
characterization project. 03/30/04
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Friday's
seminar presentation was an update on the Bureau's outreach
activities by Sigrid Clift, Sue
Hovorka, Rebecca Smyth, and
Tiffany Hepner. Sigrid’s “Building
Successful K-12 Outreach
Programs” is posted here for others
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in outreach. [Powerpoint]
03/29/04
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A
large number of Bureau researchers participated at the
AAPG Hedberg Research Conference titled “Carbonate
Reservoir Characterization and Simulation: From Facies
to Flow Units” held in El Paso,
Texas, March
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given by Bureau researchers, including the lunch keynote talk
by Director Scott Tinker titled “Three
Generations of Reservoir Modeling.” Bob
Loucks served as a conference convenor and presented
“Overview of Paleocave Systems and Associated Suprastratal
Deformation.” Click
here for a complete list of talks and field trips
presented by Bureau researchers. 03/22/04 |
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The
Bureau was well represented at the Texas General Land
Office Coastal Issues Conference in Corpus Christi March
10–12. Five Bureau researchers presented data, analysis,
and cutting-edge |
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technology that generated much
interest and discussion. Jim Gibeaut presented “Topographic
Variations of Barrier Island Wetlands: Implications for Modeling
Change During Rising Relative Sea Level.”
[Powerpoint]
as well as “The
Texas Shoreline Change Project: Combining Lidar, Historical
Photography, and Ground Surveys to Measure Shoreline
Change Rates along Bay and Gulf Shorelines.”
[Powerpoint]
Tom Tremblay presented “Status
and Trends of Wetlands and Aquatic Habitats on Texas Barrier
Islands.” [Powerpoint]
and Rachel Waldinger presented “Preliminary
Analysis of Wetlands Status and Trends on Galveston Island.”
[Powerpoint]
Tiffany Hepner and John Andrews presented a
demonstration titled “3D
Virtual Reality Vision of the Texas Coast,”
which was shown continuously during the conference. 03/22/04 |
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Associate Director of Administration Jay Kipper
(left) and Director Scott Tinker (right)
confer with Abdulhahim Aal-Abdissalaam of Oxy Oman during
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East Geosciences Conference in Bahrain. More than 8000 attended
the GEO 2004 Conference March 7–10, and the Bureau was
present to exhibit the wide range of research completed or ongoing
in the region and around the world. 03/17/04 |
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Long-time
researcher and one of the founding members of the Applied
Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL), Dan Schultz-Ela,
has left the Bureau to return to his roots in western
Colorado. His new life will include raising horses, finishing
his eco-friendly home, teaching high school science, and—good
news for researchers in the AGL— continuing his
valuable expertise as a consulting mathematical |
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modeler now based at “Bureau West.”
We wish him and Lynea well. 03/12/04 |
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researchers recently traveled to El Paso, Texas, to attend
the Southwest Section AAPG 2004 Meeting that was held
March 6–-9. Research Scientist Steve Ruppel
presented “Regional
Stratigraphy and Reservoir Development in Middle Paleozoic
(Silurian and Devonian) Carbonate Successions, West Texas:
A Review”
[Abstract]
[Powerpoint]
and
co-authored “Carbonate
Facies Identification Using |
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Borehole
Image Logs:
An Example from Fullerton Field, Andrews County, Texas”
that was presented and coauthored by Shawn Fullmer.
[Abstract]
03/11/04
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At
8:30 a.m.on March 12, Bureau Researcher Martin Jackson
was the Friday Seminar speaker. The title of his presentation
was“A New Mechanism for Advance
of Allochthonous Salt Sheets.” The paper
is coauthored by Mike Hudec. 03/10/04
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Jackson (left) and Mike Hudec (right) |
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Professor Frank L. Brown and wife Linda spent
the month of February in South Africa, courtesy of Petrosa,
the South African national exploration company, and Exxoteq,
a marine drilling company headquartered in Calcutta and Dubai.
They spent the month working and playing. Click
here for details.03/09/04 |
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The
6th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition,
GEO 2004, |
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held at the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre March 7–10
in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. Several Bureau researchers attended
the conference, including Director Scott Tinker
and Associate Director Jay Kipper, who also
hosted the Bureau booth.
Senior Research Scientist Charlie Kerans co-presented
the Shu'aiba Core Workshop March 10–11. Charlie also coauthored
“Integrated Reservoir Modeling
of a Complex Carbonate Reservoir, Al Huwaisah Field, North Oman.”
[Abstract].
Postdoctoral Fellow Tim Dooley coauthored “4-D
Evolution of Fold and Thrust Belts: Comparisons of Analog Models
with the Zagros Fold Belt, Iran.” [Abstract]
03/04/04
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February 18 and 19, 2004, UT Department of Geological
Sciences Ph.D. candidate Tarek A. Elshayeb
and Floyd “Bo”
Henk of Pacheron Group held their second core
workshop at the Austin Core Research Center for a limited
audience of geologists, geophysists, and reservoir engineers.
The workshop, based on Tarek's Ph.D. studies and research,
was titled “The
Tight Gas Sands of the Cotton
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Workshop Integrating the Sedimentology, Ichnology, and Rock
Properties Data for a Comprehensive Understanding of the Depositional
Environments, Sequence Stratigraphy, Reservoir Characterization,
and Log Interpretation (Low-Resistivity Pay).”
03/04/04 |
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