Bureau of Economic Geology Presentations 2012

February 12, 2013

BEG Seminar Series: Fall 2012
BEG seminars are held each Friday (unless otherwise noted) at 9:00 a.m. in the Main Conference Room. Refreshments are served. Hosted by Ned Frost Research Associate Bureau of Economic Geology Jackson School of Geosciences, 512-471-4331, ned.frost@beg.utexas.edu
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Date	Presenter	Subject/Title (click for abstract)
Aug 31	Jonathan Rotzien Jonathan Rotzien Geological & Environmental Sciences Stanford University	Process of Sedimentation & Depositional Architecture of a Deepwater Local Base-of-Slope Channel & Levee-Overbank Apron: The Upper Miocene Upper Mount Messenger Formation, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
Tues. Sep 4	Dr. María Antonieta Lorente Dr. María Antonieta Lorente Universidad Central de Venezuela	High Impact Biostratigraphy - The use of microfossils in industry and research
Sep 7	Dr. Robert Loucks Dr. Robert Loucks Senior Research Scientist, BEG	An Answer to a Controversy: Depositional Features and Associated Processes in the Upper Cretaceous, Deepwater Eagle Ford (Boquillas) Carbonate dominated A-Member [Presented in VR Room]
Sep 14	(Max) Qinhong Hu (Max) Qinhong Hu The University of Texas at Arlington	Pore Structure and Gas Recovery in the Fractured Barnett Shale
Sep 21	Dr. Gregory Frébourg Dr. Gregory Frébourg Research Associate, BEG	Bottom currents and their associated deposits
Sep 28	David Ferrill David Ferrill Department of Earth, Material, & Planetary Sciences Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)	Faulting Processes in Carbonate Rocks and Influence of Mechanical Stratigraphy
Oct 5	Dr. Al Lacazette Dr. Alfred Lacazette Global Geographic Services	Tomographic Fracture Imaging: A new microseismic technology
Oct 12	Dr. Gurcan Gulen Dr. Gurcan Gulen Research Associate, BEG	Gas-Power Linkages: Environmental Regulations, Renewables Policies, Power Price Caps and Gas Use
Oct 19	Dr. Michael Hofmann Dr. Michael Hofmann Applied Stratigraphy Research Group Department of Geosciences The University of Montana	Characterizing fluvial channel clustering, fluvial channel architecture and connectivity in the Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado
Oct 26	Bruce Yardley	The Impact of CO2-Water-Mineral Interactions on the Properties of Reservoirs: Can We Rely on Models
Nov 2	Dr. Michael Abrams	Best practices for the collection, analysis, and interpretation of seabed geochemical samples to evaluate subsurface hydrocarbon generation and entrapment
Nov 9	David Pyles	Hydrodynamic Fractionation of Minerals in Submarine Fans: Results from physical experiments and the stratigraphic record
Nov 16	Dr. Brad Wolaver Dr. Brad Wolaver Research Associate, BEG	Potential Economic Impacts of Instream Flows for Central Texas Freshwater Mussels
Nov 23	Holiday - no seminar	Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 30	Jim Markello Jim Markello ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co	A New Depositional Model and New Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture for the Lisburne Wahoo Reservoir (Early Pennsylvanian) North Slope Alaska, USA
Dec 7	Dr. Chris Ogiesoba Dr. Chris Ogiesoba Research Associate, BEG	TBA