This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of September 25-October 1, 2006


Speakers:	Lorena Moscardelli (UT DGS PhD)
Topics:	Mass transport processes and deposits, and their role in continental margin development
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 9/26, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Dan Barker (UT DGS Professor Emeritus)
Topics:	What might happen if you don’t talk with your colleagues
Series/Event:	PGST Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 9/27, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Trevor Aitken (UT DGS MS 2005)
Topics:	As an Exploration Geophysisist at Devon, he will be talking about different aspects of exploration at the industry level.
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 9/28, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B

Speakers:	Hugo Castellanos (UT DGS PhD Candidate)
Topics:	Sequence stratigraphy and tectonics of Guantao and Minghuazhen Formations, Zhao Dong field, Bohai Bay, Eastern China
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 9/28, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Eric Potter (BEG)
Topics:	Barnett Shale Play (Fort Worth Basin, TX) and its impact on the Jackson School Royalty Lands
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 9/29, 8:30–9:15 a.m.
Location	Main Conference Room, Bldg 130, J. J. Pickle Research Campus

Speakers:	Chris Jenkins (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Topics:	A Global Data Base of Seabed Substrate Character (dbSEABED)
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 9/29, 11:00 a.m.-Noon
Location	UTIG Room 800

Speakers:	Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee (BEG)
Topics:	Is deeper groundwater of the arsenic affected western Bengal Basin, India, a safe drinking water source? — A contradiction of existing hypotheses
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 9/29, Noon
Location	GEO 3.222

This Week in Geosciences (TWIG) is a weekly communication from the Department of Geological Sciences at the Jackson School. To submit events for TWIG, contact Terry Edgar in the Department at tedgar@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-5172.