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The Bureau of Economic Geology’s Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory recently hosted their annual consortium meeting online due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The 2-day technical meeting and 1-day short course included a variety of talks from MSRL researchers, collaborators, and guest speakers.

This week, Dr. Sergey Fomel will host the first part of his Society of Exploration Geophysicists lecture series on automating data analysis tasks for seismic interpretation.

The Bureau celebrates its researchers’ peer-reviewed publications of 2019 and honors four authors for exemplary publications of societal relevance.

In 2018, the GCCC was awarded a large grant by the Department of Energy to study carbon capture and offshore storage in the western Gulf of Mexico. Together with partners in the eastern Gulf, the project leaders hosted their second annual partnership meeting entirely via webinar after travel plans to New Orleans were cancelled due to COVID-19.

In the midst of the unexpected and dramatic change that has come with COVID-19, the Bureau’s Information Technology team has stepped up to ensure a relatively seamless transition to a new IT model utilizing remote connections.