Bureau of Economic Geology Presentations 2012

May 15, 2013

BEG Seminar Series: Spring 2013
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)
Jan11	Bill Ambrose William Ambrose Research Scientist, BEG	Incised-Valley and Estuarine Deposits in the Pennsylvanian Cleveland Formation, Western Anadarko Basin
Jan18	Dr. Art Saller Stratigrapher & Exploration Geologist Cobalt International Energy, Houston	Diagenetic Evolution of Porosity in Carbonates During Burial
Jan 25	Dr. Bridget Scanlon Dr. Bridget Scanlon Senior Research Scientist, BEG	Drought and the Energy Water Nexus in Texas
Feb1	Dr. Michael Pope Dr. Michael Pope Associate Professor Geology & Geophysics Texas A&M	Outcrops of the Eagle Ford Formation in west Texas as a “Natural Laboratory” for Unconventional Reservoirs
Feb 8	Dr. Chris Jackson Dr. Chris Jackson Imperial College, London, UK *Visiting Research Fellow, AGL	Seismic reflection imaging of igneous intrusions in sedimentary basin and implications for the development of petroleum systems.
Feb 15	Dr. H. Seay Nance Dr. H. Seay Nance Research Associate, BEG	Oceanic and Depositional Models for Leonardian Mudrocks, Permian Basin
Feb 22	Dr. Tip Meckel Dr. Timothy "Tip" Meckel Research Associate, BEG	High resolution 3D marine seismic acquisition on the inner Texas shelf: P-Cable capabilities and applications
Mar 1	Steven Bachtel Steven Bachtel Adjunct Faculty Department of Geological Sciences, UT Austin	No title available.
Mar 8	Dr. Mark McClure Dr. Mark McClure Assistant Professor in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering University of Texas at Austin	Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanical Modeling in Discrete Fracture Networks
Mar 8 1:30p	Dr. Chris Paola Dr. Chris Paola CSE Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences University of Minnesota	Mass balance effects in depositional systems (special seminar)
Mar 15	Holiday - no seminar	Spring Break!
Mar 22	Dr. Lorena Mocardelli Dr. Lorena Moscardelli Research Associate, BEG	From Mass Transport Deposits to Mars: 10 Years Later - The Journey!
Mar 29	Ron Blakey Dr. Ronald C. Blakey Professor Emeritus Northern Arizona University Colorado Plauteau Geosystems	Using Paleogeographic Maps to Portray Phanerozioic Geologic and Paleotectonic History of Western North America
Apr 5	GSA Convention - no seminar
Apr 12	Kate Huntington Katharine Huntington College of the Environment University of Washington	Uses of carbonate clumped isotope thermometry in continental tectonics: from plateau uplift to structural diagenesis
Apr 19	Dr. Jeffrey A. May Dr. Jeffrey A. May Chief Geologist (Retired) EOG Resources	Mudrock Reservoirs – Why Depositional Fabric & Sequence Stratigraphic Framework Matter
Apr 26	Dr. Lesli Wood Dr. Lesli Wood Research Associate, BEG	What Lies Beneath: The Search for and Discovery of the Deep Water Tuscaloosa