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October 1st, Bureau scientist and geophysicist Sergey
Fomel was the weekly seminar speaker. His topic: Smooth
Estimates of Seismic Attributes [abstract].
09/29/04 |
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Bureau
Research Fellow Rob Lander recently presented
a report on the Fracture Research and Application
Consortium’s Basic Energy Sciences grant
titled “Predicting
Fracture Porosity Evolution in Sandstone”
at DOE’s Geoscience Research Program |
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Symposium: “Flow
and Transport: Characterization and Modeling from Pore to Reservoir
Scales.” Rob’s presentation, titled
“Theory for Quartz Cementation
in Structurally Deformed Sandstones” [Abstract],
was chosen by an independent review panel as the outstanding
contribution from a University project. This study is a cross-departmental
collaborative project. Co-principal investigators are BEG Senior
Research Scientist Steve Laubach, Rob
Lander and Linda Bonnell, Bureau Research
Fellows and Geocosm LLD, Randy Marrett of the
Department of Geological Sciences, and Jon E. Olson
of the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering.
In November the Bureau will host a discussion meeting on the
topic of this research. [FRAC
Events page] 09/28/04 |
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September 30, Bureau researchers Frank Brown
and Ursula Hammes will make presentations
at the Society of Independent Professional Earth
Scientists (SIPES) Houston Chapter
One-Day Seminar
titled “New Reserves
from
Mature Trends of the
Onshore
Gulf Coast.” |
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Ursula
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Frank’s
presentation is titled “Revisiting
Mature Fields with Modern Technology and Geologic Concepts:
Examples from the Frio of South Texas” [Abstract].
Ursula’s presentation is
“Gas Reservoir Compartmentalization in Lowstand Prograding-Wedge
Deltaic Systems: Oligocene Upper Lower Frio Formation, South
Texas.” [Abstract]
[Powerpoint]
At the request of SIPES organizers, Ursula
has also prepared a memorial honoring Bob Goldhammer for display
during the seminar. Bureau Director Scott Tinker will also attend
the seminar and will share some of his memories of Bob Goldhammer
and speak about the Houston Research Center. 09/28/04 |
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On
September 16 at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
in Palisades, New York, Shirley Dutton gave
a presentation about curation of terrestrial scientific cores,
samples, and collections at the Houston Research Center. The
talk was featured at a meeting of Curators of Marine
and Lacustrine Geological Samples. 09/24/04 |
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on September 16, the San Antonio Chapter of the Society
of Independent Professional Earth Scientists
(SIPES) had as its invited luncheon speaker
Senior Research Scientist Bob Loucks,
who made two presentations: “Project
STARR” and
“Understanding the Origin and Sequence
Stratigraphy of Growth-Faulted,
Intraslope Subbasins:
Examples from the South Texas |
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Oligocene Frio Formation”
[abstract].
09/22/04
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Department
of Geological Sciences legend and librarian
extraordinaire, Dennis Trombatore,
was the colloquium speaker at the Friday seminar at
the Bureau. The informal talk served both as a refresher
for experienced users and an overview for new users.
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Topics
included
UT Library On-Line:
Quick review of searching and services for the local collections
Geo-Ref Searching:
Tips and tricks, database developments, linking to full text
More Databases:
A few words about other science bibliographic databases, including
Web of Science
On-Line Journals:
Where to find them, how to develop alert services, new packages
Walter Library Web page and Virtual
Landscapes of Texas:
Quick review of our web page and what’s new on our full-text
resources project pages
New Developments on the Horizon:
Coming changes that will affect the entire library system
09/22/04
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| Nancy
Cottington recently rejoined the Bureau support staff
as a Computer Illustrator. Nancy has been involved with Applied
Geophysics Laboratory’s Salt Mine Atlas for several
years now as a consultant and has returned to the Bureau in
a full-time capacity for that ongoing project. 09/17/04 |
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A
big Bureau welcome to new Postdoctoral Fellow David
Pyles, who joins us after receiving his Ph.D.
in geology from the University of Colorado at
Boulder in June 2004. David’s M.S. degree
in geology is from the Colorado School of Mines
(2000); his B.S. degree in geology is from California
State University, Chico (1997); and his A.S.
degree is from Riverside Community College
(1994). David’s research interests include |
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stratigraphy, sedimentology, clastic facies analysis, and
seismic data interpretation. 09/17/04
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September 17, 2004, veteran Bureau scientist and Research Professor,
L. Frank Brown, Jr., spoke at the Friday morning
seminar. Frank’s talk was “Upper
Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Sequence Stratigraphic and Depositional
Systems Tracts, Eastern Shelf and Adjacent Midland Basin, North-
and West-Central Texas.”
09/16/04 |
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Oblique photo of an analog model run at Royal Holloway
showing the circular trace of the surface laser scanner
as it scans the topography. |
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Bureau
Post-Doctoral Fellow Tim Dooley spent
3 weeks in July and August in the physical modeling
labs at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Tim’s visit was part of an ongoing research project
for the U.S. Navy Geothermal Program Office
into the geometries and kinematics of transtensional
pull-apart basins. Tim included some of these modeling
results in his oral and poster
presentation titled “Scaled
Sandbox
Modeling
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of Transtensional
Pull-Apart Basins—Applications to the Coso Geothermal
System,”
which he gave at the Geothermal Resources
Council 2004 Annual Meeting in Palm Springs, California,
August 29–September 1. 09/09/04 |
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