Seminars
BEG seminars are held each Friday (unless otherwise noted) at 9:00 a.m. in the Main Conference Room. The Seminar series is hosted by Todd Caldwell and Sheng Peng and coordinated by Valerie Siewart.
| Date | Presenter | Subject/Title (click for Abstract) |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2019 | Stephen C. Phillips, PhD |
"New Insights on Gas Hydrate Reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico from Pressure Coring" |
| Nov 08, 2019 | Jayme McBee |
"Offshore Hydrocarbon Seepage – State of the Science: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where the Research is Going" |
| Nov 01, 2019 | Robert Porritt |
"Passive Source Seismic Imaging of the Continuous US and the Southern Margin" |
| Oct 25, 2019 | Edward A. Duncan, DBA |
The Brookian Foreland Basin of North Alaska: Technology Driven Renaissance of a Petroleum Super Basin |
| Oct 11, 2019 | Liviu C. Matenco, PhD |
"Multi-Scale Depositional Successions in Tectonic Settings" |
| Oct 04, 2019 | Hongliu Zeng, PhD |
"Seismic-informed high-resolution sedimentology: Filling the gap between exploration and production" |
| Sep 30, 2019 | Bo Ren, PhD |
"Toward a Sustainable Oil & Gas Industry: CO2 EOR and Storage in Residual Oil Zones Utilizing Foam Injection" |
| Sep 20, 2019 | Jiun-Chi ‘JC’ Chao, PhD |
"Automated Cuttings Analysis for Unconventional Applications" |
| Sep 13, 2019 | Les Nichols, Interim Director |
"Commercializing Research at UT Austin, The Value of Data" |
| Aug 23, 2019 | Chris Zahm
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“Conch Shells, Rum, and Research: A Geotourism Review of the Turks and Caicos Islands” |
| Aug 16, 2019 | Dr. Dennis P. Dunn |
“In Search of Diamonds in Indonesia” |
| Aug 09, 2019 | Alan & Shirley Dutton |
"Birds, Boats, and Beethoven—A Photo Travelogue of U.K.’s East Anglia and London" |
| Aug 02, 2019 | David Chapman
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"Music as Medicine" |
| Jul 22, 2019 | Amanda Bosky |
“Precarious Professionals: Layoffs and Gender Inequality in the Oil and Gas Industry” |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Scott V. Jermain, PharmD
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"Pharmacy TED Talks" |
| Jul 12, 2019 | William A. Ambrose
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"Dangerous Places in the Solar System" |
| Jun 28, 2019 | Michael Domjan
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"Music & Psychology" |
| Jun 21, 2019 | Jessica Trelogan
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"Managing Research Data: a Guide to Good Practice" |
| Jun 12, 2019 | Dr. Michael A. Abrams |
“Assessing Oil-In-Place and In-situ Fluid Chemistry Mobility in Liquid Rich Unconventional Resource Plays Using Direct Geochemical Measurements” |
| Jun 07, 2019 | Dr. Charles “Chock” Woodruff |
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Map of Austin" |
| May 24, 2019 | Dr. Piotr Krzywiec, Associate Professor |
“Neoproterozoic to Cretaceous Evolution of the SW Edge of the East European Craton - Results of the Regional Seismic Studies in Poland” |
| May 10, 2019 | Dr. Behzad Ghanbarian, Asst. Prof. of Engineering Geology
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"Rock Typing in Petroleum Geology: Past and Future" |
| May 03, 2019 | Dr. Clara Rodriguez |
"Deep-Water Sedimentation in Salt-Influenced Basins: Insights Beyond the ‘Fill and Spill’ Model" |
| Apr 26, 2019 | Dr. Inessa Yurchenko, Dr. Zoltan Sylvester, Dr. Bo Ren and Dr. Victor del Carpio |
"50 Shades of Earth, Energy and Environmental Modeling" |
| Apr 19, 2019 | Dr. Fengshou (Frank) Zhang, |
"Investigating the Hydraulic Fracturing Complexity in Naturally Fractured Rock Mass Using Fully Coupled Multiscale Numerical Modeling" |
| Apr 12, 2019 | Gabriel Bowen |
"Water Isotope Forensics: Data and Tools for Hydrological Tracing" |
| Mar 29, 2019 | Dr. Brian Romans, PhD., Associate Professor, Virginia Tech |
"Stratigraphic and Basin Analysis of Outcropping Slope Deposits, Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, Chile: Insights into Reservoir Heterogeneity of Submarine Channel and Fan Systems" |
| Mar 15, 2019 | Christopher Jackson, Ph.D., |
"Adventures in Publishing" |
| Mar 08, 2019 | Tissa Illangasekare, PE, BCEE, DWRE |
"Multi-scale Experimentation for Improved Understanding of Energy, Mass and Momentum Transfer Across Physical Interfaces in Natural Systems - Challenges and Opportunities |
| Mar 01, 2019 | Dr. Jacob Covault, Research Scientist |
"Sandy Building Blocks of Basin-Floor Submarine-Fan Reservoirs: Low-Sinuosity Deepwater Channel Deposits, Permian Basin" |
| Feb 22, 2019 | Dr. Timothy “Tip” Meckel, Senior Research Scientist |
"High-Resolution 3D Marine Seismic Monitoring Above an Active CO2 Injection Site, Offshore Hokkaido, Japan" |
| Feb 15, 2019 | Tim Dixon, Program Manager at IEA Greenhouse Gas
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“Update on the Role of CCUS in the Global Climate Scene” |
| Feb 08, 2019 | Dr. Wen Song, Assistant Professor |
"Pore-Scale Transport towards Sustainable Petroleum and Environmental Resources Development" |
| Jan 28, 2019 | Dr. Toti Larson, Research Associate |
"Calculating Mineral Facies and Organic Matter Trends in the Austin Chalk by Integrating Large Geochemical Datasets with Multivariate Statistics" |
| Jan 25, 2019 | Dr. Esti Ukar, Research Associate |
"Natural fractures in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina" |
| Jan 18, 2019 | Dr. Xinming Wu, Postdoctoral Fellow |
"Generating 3D Realistic Structure Models and Synthetic Seismic Datasets to Train an End-to-End CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) for Fault Interpretation" |
| Jan 11, 2019 | Dr. Michael R. Hudec, Senior Research Scientist |
"Evolution of the Salina del Bravo, Mexico: the Bravo Trough, Sigsbee Canopy and Perdido Fold Belt" |
| Dec 14, 2018 | Michael Pyrcz, Associate Professor |
"What Does a Geoscientist Need to Know About Geostatistics? And Why It Would Be Helpful?" |
| Dec 07, 2018 | Dr. Jean Hutchinson, Department Head |
"Transformative developments in remote monitoring applied to rock slope stability and risk management" |
| Nov 27, 2018 | Dr. Masaki Hayashi, Professor and Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer |
Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World |
| Nov 16, 2018 | Gary F. Teletzke, Ph.D. |
"CO2 in the Subsurface - From EOR to Storage" |
| Nov 09, 2018 | Dr. Susan D. Hovorka, Principle Investigator, GCCC |
"Global Status of Carbon Capture and Storage as a Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Measure" |
| Nov 02, 2018 | Dr. Allyson Tessin, Marie Curie Research Fellow |
"Organic Matter Source and Preservation within the Late Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, U.S. Western Interior" |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Dr. Douglas A. Edmonds, Associate Professor |
" Dynamics of Land Loss and Land Building on the Mississippi River Delta" |
| Oct 19, 2018 | Dr. Andrea Dutton, Assistant Professor |
"The Importance of the Solid Earth to Interpretations of Past Sea Level Change" |
| Oct 12, 2018 | Bill Catlett, Director
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"Office of Industry Engagement" |
| Oct 05, 2018 | Dr. Patrick J. Mickler, Bureau of Economic Geology |
"Potential Impacts of Unintended CO2 Release from a Gulf Coast CCUS Sites on Groundwater Chemistry; Creating Geochemical Models to Predict Groundwater Geochemical Changes" |
| Sep 28, 2018 | David Mohrig, Associate Dean for Research |
"Implementing the Strategic Plan for the Jackson School of Geosciences" |
| Sep 21, 2018 | Dr. Staci Loewy |
"U-Th Dating of Ostrich Eggshell: Adapting Established Techniques for a New Application" |
| Jul 24, 2018 | Baiyuan Gao, PhD |
"Simulating the Geomechanical Evolution of a Fold-and-Thrust Belt" |
| Jun 20, 2018 | Branden C. Christensen |
"Building Futuristic High Density Seismic Networks with Raspberry Shake " |
| May 24, 2018 | Timothy Lawton, PhD May24, 2018 9:15-10:00a |
"Got DZ?—It's Always Better with Petrography" |
| May 11, 2018 | Nicola Tisato |
"Attenuation of Seismic Wave in Partially Saturated Sandstones" |
| May 04, 2018 | Jay Banner |
"Planet Texas 2050: A UT Austin Grand Challenge" |
| Apr 27, 2018 | John Hupp |
"Airborne Lidar Bathymetry: Assessing Quality Assurance and Quality Control Methods with Leica Chiroptera Examples" |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Dallas Dunlap |
Ancient Carbonate Channel-Levee Systems: Browse Basin, NW Shelf, Australia |
| Apr 18, 2018 | Michael J. Pyrcz, Special Wednesday Seminar |
Statistical Methods to Support Unconventional Decision Making |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Dan Wood, AO |
"Future Exploration" |
| Apr 06, 2018 | Dr. Andras Fall |
"Constraining the History of Fluid Events Using the Fluid Inclusion Assemblage (FIA) Method for Collecting, Displaying and Interpreting Microthermometric Data" |
| Mar 30, 2018 | Dr. David Boutt, Associate Professor |
"Water and Lithium – The Nexus of Hydrogeosciences and Green Energy in the Transition from Fossil Fuels" |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Dr. Frank Peel |
How Long Did it Take to Deposit the Giant Louann Salt Layer in the Gulf of Mexico? |
| Mar 14, 2018 | Dr. Gillian Apps |
The Impact of Mantle Driven Processes on Salt Dynamics and Slope Processes, with Examples from Angola and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico |
| Mar 09, 2018 | Dr. Seyyed Hosseini |
"Fault Characterization and Monitoring Based on Pressure Transient Analysis" |
| Mar 02, 2018 | Dr. Jacob Covault |
“Giant Submarine Channels in Campos Basin: Patterns of Channel Migration over a Salt-Controlled Dynamic Topography” |
| Feb 23, 2018 | Vanessa Nuñez-López |
“The carbon balance evolution of CO2-EOR: an opportunity for net-carbon-negative-oil” |
| Feb 16, 2018 | Matt Hall, Ph.D. PGeo President, Agile |
"Unsolved Problems in Applied Geoscience" |
| Feb 09, 2018 | Richard J. Chuchla |
"BFF (well maybe not forever): Renewables and Natural Gas" |
| Feb 02, 2018 | Peter Hennings |
"Interpretation and Hazard Assessment of Potentially Seismogenic Faults in the Fort Worth Basin" |
| Jan 26, 2018 | Tim Dixon
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"Update on the Paris Agreement and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)" |
| Jan 19, 2018 | John Wakabayashi |
"Attempting to Bridge the Growing Gap Between Academic and Applied Geology: A Personal Odyssey" |
| Jan 12, 2018 | Alexandros Savvaidis |
"TexNet Seismic Network Performance and Reported Seismicity in West Texas" |
| Dec 18, 2017 | Coming soon! |
January 12, 2018 |
| Dec 15, 2017 | Dr. Carey W. King, PhD. Assistant Director, Energy Institute, UT Austin |
“Energy and the Economy over the Long-Term: Size and Structure” |
| Dec 08, 2017 | Dr. Daniel Kurtzman |
"Managed Aquifer Recharge with Desalinated Seawater: Focus on the Hadera-Menashe-Infiltration-System, Israel" |
| Dec 01, 2017 | Dr. Peter Flaig |
"Integrating Sedimentology, Ichnology, and High-Resolution Imagery to Refine Paleoenvironmental Models of Paralic/Deltaic Reservoir Analogues" |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Dr. Ashley M. Matheny |
"Transpiration and the Emergence of Vegetation Hydrodynamics Models" |
| Nov 10, 2017 | Nicolas O. Brissette |
"The Gunn Graben: Geology, Engineering, and the missing key, Geomechanics" |
| Nov 03, 2017 | Dr. Todd Caldwell
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"Validation and application of the Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite Mission in Texas" |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Dr. Jeffrey G. Paine |
"Rapid response on the Texas coast: acquiring Post-Harvey lidar and imagery to assess storm impact and monitor recovery" |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Zoltan Sylvester |
"Revisiting the link between curvature and migration rate: How meander cutoffs rejuvenate river migration and initiate counter point bars" |
| Oct 13, 2017 | Pankaj Khanna |
"Utilizing Drone Imagery to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze Upper Cambrian Microbial Buildups, Central Texas" |
| Oct 06, 2017 | Daniel Crotzer |
"The Case for Energy Storage" |
| Sep 29, 2017 | Bob Villwock |
"Managing Intellectual Property and Research at UT" |
| Sep 22, 2017 | Patricia Bobeck |
Jean-Baptiste Paramelle: 19th Century Karst Hydrogeologist |
| Sep 12, 2017 | Dr. Paul Durkin |
Honing paleoenvironmental interpretations through meander-belt evolution reconstruction |
| Sep 08, 2017 | Rachelle Kernen |
‘Origin & Nature of Intrasalt Clasts: A Case Study From the Neoproterozoic Patawarta Salt Sheet/Canopy, Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia’ |
| Jul 26, 2017 | Mark Zoback |
Managing the Risk of Injection Induced Seismicity |
| Apr 28, 2017 | Justin Huntington |
"Monitoring Drought in the Cloud: From Archives to Answers" |
| Apr 21, 2017 | Peter Clift |
“Coupled Onshore Erosion and Offshore Sediment Loading as Causes of Lower Crust Flow on Rifted Margins” |
| Apr 10, 2017 | Lucy Tingwei Ko |
"Depositional, Mineralogical, and Maturity Controls on Pore Types, Porosity, and Pore-Size Distribution in Mudrocks" |
| Apr 01, 2017 | Dr. John Snedden |
"Can We do Big Science in a Petroleum-Rich Basin? The Robust Sedimentary Archive of the Deep Gulf of Mexico Basin" |
| Mar 31, 2017 | Dr. Hongbin Zhan |
Intra-Wellbore Kinematic and Frictional Losses on Coupled Conduit-Aquifer Flow |
| Mar 24, 2017 | Daniella M. Rempe |
"How northern Californian forests skirted a drought" |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Kyle M. Straub, DeFord Lecturer |
Lost in translation: Defining thresholds for the storage of environmental signals in stratigraphy |
| Mar 03, 2017 | Dr. Hugh Daigle |
Multiscale pore networks and their effect on deformation and transport property alteration associated with hydraulic fracturing |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Mark Engle, Ph.D., Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
Geochemistry and origin of produced waters from the Wolfcamp and "Cline" Shales (Permian Basin) and Eagle Ford Shale (Gulf Coast Basin) |
| Feb 17, 2017 | M. Bayani Cardenas, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin |
Water Cycling Across Aquatic Interfaces: How It Works and Why It Matters from the Pore Scale to the Continental Scale |
| Feb 10, 2017 | Robert G. Loucks, Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology |
Dissolution textures and cementation patterns in the Holocene Isla Cancun Eolianite aragonitic ooids; Modern analog for understanding ancient ooid grainstone pore networks |
| Feb 03, 2017 | Jacob Covault, PhD |
Predictive Organization of Intra-Slope Basin Submarine Fans |
| Jan 27, 2017 | Jonathan Rotzien, PhD |
Application of global outcrop belts to exploration and field extension in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico |
| Jan 20, 2017 | Dr. Bridget R. Scanlon |
"Disagreements in Land Water Storage Trends between GRACE Satellites and Global Models" |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Gürcan Gülen, Ph.D., |
The future of natural gas use in power generation is uncertain |
| Dec 16, 2016 | Nathan Meehan |
Sustainability Challenges for Oil and Gas |
| Dec 02, 2016 | Dr. Robert Mace |
Texas Flood: How the State is Helping Texans Prepare for, Respond to, and Recover from Floods |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Glenn Sharman |
Submarine Mass Failure within the Shelfal-Deltaic Domengine Formation (Eocene), Central California |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Steven G. Driese |
"Geochemical constraints on duration of weathering for Neoproterozoic Baltic paleosol" |
| Oct 28, 2016 | David Maidment |
"National Water Model" |
| Oct 21, 2016 | Dr. Hui-Hai Liu |
Non-Darcy Liquid Flow in Shale: Theory and Laboratory Experiment Results |
| Oct 14, 2016 | Jesse J. Melick |
High-Resolution Architecture of Proximal Basin-Floor Deepwater Clastics: Examples from Outcrop, Permian Upper Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas |
| Oct 07, 2016 | Dr. Robert M. Reed |
Mudrock Pore Systems: Ten Years of SEM-Based Research |
| Sep 30, 2016 | John Nielsen-Gammon |
“Texas Precipitation: Variability, Change, and Risk” |
| Sep 23, 2016 | Dr. Frank Male |
Shale Well Productivity: Quantifying and Minimizing Uncertainty in Decline Analysis |
| Sep 16, 2016 | Stefan Finsterle |
"Multiphysics Joint Inversion: Simply Too Complex?" |
| Sep 09, 2016 | Beginning September 9, 2016 |
the Bureau proudly presents another season of outstanding technical talks by leading researchers from around the world. |
| Sep 09, 2016 | Michelle Foss |
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Producer Economics and Finance for the Third Wave" |
| May 06, 2016 | William Ambrose |
Facies Variability and Reservoir Quality of Incised-Valley Fill and Shallow-Marine Sandstones in the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Formation, Central Louisiana |
| Apr 29, 2016 | Mark Wentzel |
“The Texas Instream Flow Program: the science of instream flows.” |
| Apr 22, 2016 | Ryan Smith |
The Nature Conservancy of Texas: Conserving Texas Water |
| Mar 11, 2016 | Scott Hamlin |
Using Electric Logs to Estimate Groundwater Salinity and Map Brackish Groundwater Resources in the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer in South Texas |
| Mar 04, 2016 | Alex Sun |
Development of a Binational Geospatial DecisionSupport System to Protect Water Quality in the Lower Rio Grande |
| Feb 26, 2016 | Ian Duncan |
Likelihood and Environmental Consequences of Blowouts of Shale Gas and Shale Oil Wells |
| Feb 12, 2016 | Jacob Covault |
Deepwater Channel Compartmentalization and Early Evolution |
| Feb 05, 2016 | Davi Melo |
Drought Impacts on Reservoir Storage and Hydro-electricity Production in Southeastern Brazil |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Pania Newell |
Subsurface Storage Systems: Constitutive and Computational Modeling |
| Jan 15, 2016 | Xinming Wu |
3D seismic image processing for better interpretation |
| Jan 08, 2016 | Bridget R. Scanlon |
Hydrologic implications of GRACE satellite data in the Colorado River Basin |
| Dec 11, 2015 | J.-P. Nicot |
Dissolved Methane in Fresh-Water Aquifers in the Footprint of Some Texas Shale Plays |
| Dec 04, 2015 | Svetlana Ikonnikova |
Changes in producer’s strategies in the low price environments and their implications: Insights from shale formations research |
| Nov 20, 2015 | Dr. Wonsuck Kim |
Sedimentation on a Salt Substrate: New opportunities in sediment experiment with a polymer layer |
| Nov 13, 2015 | Dr. Di Zhou |
Towards China’s First Offshore CO2 Storage Demonstration |
| Nov 06, 2015 | Dr. George Burch Fisher |
The Fate and Persistence of Deepwater Horizon Oil |
| Oct 30, 2015 | Osareni C. Ogiesoba and Alexander Klokov |
Diffraction imaging of lithology within polygonal fault zones in the Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford Shale, Maverick Basin, South Texas |
| Oct 23, 2015 | Shaina Kelly |
Nanofluidics, Phenomenological Models, and Implications for Tight Rocks |
| Oct 16, 2015 | Si Chen |
Onshelf to Deepwater Architectures of the Late Miocene to Pliocene Orinoco Delta, Trinidad |
| Oct 09, 2015 | James M. Rine, Brittany Hollon, Robert Fu, Nancy Houghton, Peter Valley, and Michael Waddell |
Diagenetic and Burial History of a Portion of the Late Triassic South Georgia Rift Basin Based on Petrologic and Isotopic (δ18O) Analyses of Sandstones from Test Borehole Rizer #1, Colleton County, SC |
| Oct 02, 2015 | Hongliu Zeng and Eric Potter |
Deeper, tighter, and thinner: challenges and opportunities of sponsored reservoir research in China |
| Sep 25, 2015 | Mike Blum |
Continental-Scale Paleodrainage and Giant River Systems of the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group (Oil Sands), Alberta Foreland Basin. |
| Sep 11, 2015 | Patrick Smith |
Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Images of Shale |