Scott
Tinker represented the Bureau and other state geologic
surveys at the EarthScope Education
and Outreach Workshop scheduled for
January 30–February 1, 2002, at the National
Center Atmospheric Research Mesa Labs Facility in Boulder,
Colorado. EarthScope is a major NSF research initiative of
more than 100 universities and State and Federal agencies
to examine the structure and tectonics of North America in
consummate detail using state-of-the-art technologies from
the sciences of geodesy, geophysics, and geology. [Workshop
Abstract] 1/08/02
Cari
Breton demonstrates the Bureau's GIS in the Classroom
program to geography teachers at GeoTech 2002 at Bishop
Dunne Catholic School in Dallas.
Cari Breton and Sigrid Clift
demonstrated the Bureau's GIS in the Classroom Program at
the 14th Annual GeoTech Conference
at Bishop Dunne Catholic School in Dallas on January 25, 2002.
The conference, for geography teachers, was sponsored by the
Environmental Systems Research Institute
(ESRI) and the Texas Alliance
for Geographic Education. Dr. Wade Davis,
Explorer-in-Residence for National
Geographic, was the keynote speaker and guest of honor.
01/30/02
Dr.
David Budd, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
at the University of Colorado at Boulder,
presented the "Compaction of
Carbonate Grainstones and the Destruction of Permeability
— a Simple View of the Hole Story" Friday,
January 25, 2002 as part of the Bureau of Economic Geology's
Weekly Seminar Series.[Abstract]
1/23/02
Bureau
Director Scott W. Tinker presented "A
Multidimensional Bureau of Economic Geology: 3-D Models, 3-D
Seismic, Lidar, and Other Neat Technology" to
the monthly East Texas Geological Society lunch crowd on Wednesday,
January 23, 2002 in Tyler, Texas. [Abstract]
1/22/02
Leonel
Gómez, Graduate Research Assistant in the Bureau's
Fracture Research and Application
Consortium and doctoral aspirant in the Department
of Geological Sciences, presented an invited talk Thursday,
January 17, 2002 to members of Ecopetrol's
research division in Bucaramanga, Colombia, with a live
TV link to Ecopetrol offices in Bogotá and in other
cities. The presentation described multidisciplinary empirical
and modeling studies for characterization of fractured reservoirs.
The title of the talk was “Estudios
Empíricos y de Modelamiento en la Caracterización
de Reservorios Fracturados : un enfoque multidisciplinario.”
For more information on this fracture research and Mr. Gómez'
background, see the FRAC
area of this web site. 1/14/02
Dr.
Randall Marrett, a co-principal investigator of the
Fracture Research and Application Consortium
(FRAC) at the Bureau, and Associate Professor in the
Department of Geological Sciences has just been appointed
to the editorial board of GEOLOGY. More information about
Dr. Marrett's research on fracture quantification can be found
at the FRAC’s
web area. 1/10/02
The
Bureau's belovedGlynis Morsefinished
the 26-mile Leukemia & Lymphoma
Society "Team In Training®" marathon
on Sunday, January 6, in Orlando, Florida, winding her way
through Disney's Epcot Center, the Magic Kingdom, and MGM
Studios. With the advice and support of a Team In Training®
coach, Glynis began training for the marathon in May and raised
more than $6000 towards a cure for leukemia and lymphoma.
We're proud of you, Glynis! [More]
1/07/02
Scott
Tinker represented the Bureau and other state geologic
surveys at the 
Dr.
David Budd, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
at the 
Bureau
Director Scott W. Tinker presented "
Leonel
Gómez, Graduate Research Assistant in the Bureau's
Dr.
Randall Marrett, a co-principal investigator of the
The
Bureau's beloved Glynis Morse finished
the 26-mile 
