Bureau of Economic Geology Presentations 2011

December 13, 2012

BEG Seminar Series: Fall 2011
BEG seminars are held each Friday (unless otherwise noted) at 9:00 a.m. in the Main Conference Room. Refreshments are served. Hosted by David Chapman Research Associate Bureau of Economic Geology Jackson School of Geosciences, 512-284-2118 , david.chapman@beg.utexas.edu
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Date	Presenter	Subject/Title (click for abstract)
Sep 2	Dr. John W. Snedden Dr. John W. Snedden ExxonMobil Upstream Research Houston, Texas	Genesis and Evolution of a Mid-Shelf, Storm-Built Sand Ridge, New Jersey Continental Shelf, U.S.A.
Sep 9	Dr. Peter Malin Dr. Peter Malin University of Auckland	Helping Water Flow Through Rock - A new fracture-rock flow model for understanding engineered geothermal systems
Sep 16	Dr. Martin Jackson Dr. Martin Jackson Structural Geologist Bureau of Economic Geology	Modeling the pillow fold belt: a key subsalt structural province in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Sep 23	Dr. Farzam Javadpour Dr. Farzam Javadpour Engineer / Researcher Bureau of Economic Geology	Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) - a New Tool for Reservoir Characterization
Sep 30	Dr. Alex Athey Dr. Alex Athey Applied Research Labs	Overview of Electromagnetic Contrast Agent research
Oct 7	Dr. Seay Nance Dr. Seay Nance Hydrogeologist Bureau of Economic Geology	Bone Spring Formation Deep-Water Successions of the Delaware Basin, Texas and New Mexico: Facies, Rock-Body Geometries, Depositional Model, and Developing Investigations of Mudrock
Oct 14	Dr. Lorena Moscardelli Dr. Lorena Moscardelli Seismic Stratigrapher Bureau of Economic Geology	Deep-water erosional remnants in eastern offshore Trinidad as terrestrial analogs for teardrop-shaped islands on Mars: Implications for outflow channel formation
Oct 21	Bruce Cutright Bruce Cutright Hydrogeologist Bureau of Economic Geology	The Transformation of Hydrofrac-ed Reservoirs to Thermal Energy Production
Oct 28	Vanessa Nuñez-Lopez Vanessa Nuñez-Lopez Petroleum Engineer Bureau of Economic Geology	Carbon storage monitoring in a commercial EOR setting: an MVA plan for Hastings field
Nov 4	Dr. John Ullo Dr. John Ullo Schlumberger	Micro and Nano Scale Sensors for Oil Exploration & Production
Nov 11	Dr. Zahra Mohammadi Dr. Zahra Mohammadi Postdoctoral Fellow Bureau of Economic Geology	Application of Nanoparticles in Reservoir Characterization
Nov 18	Dr. Jiemin Lu Dr. Jiemin Lu Geologist Bureau of Economic Geology	Is mudrock tight enough for CO2 storage?
Nov 25	Holiday - no seminar	Happy Thanksgiving!
Dec 2	Dr. Seay Nance Dr. Seay Nance Research Associate Bureau of Economic Geology	Seasonal Flush-Recovery Cycles in Groundwater Flow, Ogallala-Santa Rosa Aquifer System, SACROC Area, Texas
Dec 9	no seminar
Dec 16	no seminar
Dec 23	no seminar