This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

TWIG Archive-2007, TWIG Archive-2006

Week of April 9 - 15, 2007


Speakers:	Mike Payne
Topics:	Opportunities and Challenges of US Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Operations
Series/Event:	Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Special Lecture
Date & Time:	Monday, 04/09, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Location	CPE 2.204

Speakers:	Patricia Yu (UT DGS MS); Chad Weisenberger (UT DGS MS)
Topics:	Seismic reflection analysis of plane waves; Salt tectonics and its impact on sedimentation in the Safi Haute Mer area, offshore Morocco
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 04/10, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	James Lyons UT DGS Ph.D. Candidate
Topics:	Mesozoic Marginal Basin of Western Mexico and its Associated Volcanic Arc
Series/Event:	PGST Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 04/11, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Theresa Diehl (UT DGS MS)
Topics:	Geoarcheaology in Greece and Egypt
Series/Event:	UTIG Brown Bag Seminars
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 04/11, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, ROC (Bldg. 196), Room 1.603

Speakers:	Dr. Mrinal K Sen
Topics:	Stiffness, Compliance and Tensor to Matrix Mapping in Fracture Modeling
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 04/12, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B

Speakers:	Dr. John Drake, Computational Earth Sciences Group Leader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Topics:	High Performance Computing and Modeling in Climate Change Science
Series/Event:	ICES/TACC Distinguished Lecture Series in Petascale Simulation
Date & Time:	Thursday, 4/12, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Location	Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302, UT Austin main campus

Speakers:	Emily Pangborn (UT DGS MS)
Topics:	Thrust fault characteristics inferred from 3-D seismic reflection data from the Nankai trough subduction zone, Southwest Japan
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 04/12, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Tucker F. Hentz
Topics:	Reservoir-Scale Depositional Facies, Trends, and Controls on Sandstone Distribution of the Lower Atoka Group (“Bend Conglomerate”), Fort Worth Basin, Texas
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 04/13, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, BEG (Bldg. 130), Main Conference Room

Speakers:	Gabriele Hegerl, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School for the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
Topics:	Understanding and Attributing Climate Change: Using the Past as a Guide to the Future
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 04/13, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, ROC (Bldg. 196), Room 1.603

Speakers:	Ron Stein, TCEQ, TMDL program
Topics:	All Aspects (Good and Bad) of Bacteria TMDLs in Texas
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 04/13, Noon-1:00 p.m.
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 Lou Harwell in the Department at louharwell@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-5172.