Bureau Salt Tectonics Modeler Recognized with Best Poster Award

The IMAGE 2024 conference technical program co-chairs recently recognized Bureau of Economic Geology Research Professor Dr. Tim Dooley with the Poster Award for Geological Technology for “Assessing Carbopol as a mobile-shale analog in the laboratory: preliminary results under contraction.”
Since 2003, Tim Dooley has headed up the modeling laboratories and work on salt-related modeling with salt tectonics pioneer, the late Martin Jackson, and current Principal Investigator (PI) of the Bureau’s Applied Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL), Michael Hudec. His meticulously constructed physical models of how salt moves and reacts in the subsurface have animated and illustrated a huge number of geological scenarios and have led to a far greater understanding of the unique characteristics of salt structures. His work has been integral to forming the AGL’s undisputed reputation as one of the world’s leaders in research on both salt tectonics and shale tectonics. Concepts and terminology pioneered by the AGL have had a profound influence and are widely disseminated throughout industry and academia.
The AGL research consortium held an extremely successful annual meeting in Austin last fall, with almost 100 partner representatives in attendance. Participants were treated to 17 technical talks by AGL researchers, a demonstration of its new mobile-shales database, and a laboratory tour over the two-day event.
Dooley has been first author or coauthor on four important recent papers. His papers have been published in the Journal of Structural Geology, the AAPG Bulletin, Interpretation, and Earth Surface Dynamics.
Please join all of us at the Bureau in congratulating Tim Dooley for this prestigious award and for his extraordinary body of work in generating new knowledge in the field of salt tectonics! For more information on the AGL, or to join, please contact PI Mike Hudec.
