This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

TWIG Archive-2007, TWIG Archive-2006

Week of April 16 - 22, 2007


Speakers:	Ken Rainwater, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE,Texas Tech University Water Resources Center
Topics:	What Do We Have to Clean Up and What Can We Leave In Place? Subsurface Modeling of Contaminant Fate and Transport at the Pantex Plant
Series/Event:	Dept. of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Graduate Seminars
Date & Time:	Monday, 4/16, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Location	CPE 2.204

Speakers:	Jim Underschultz, CSIRO Petroleum
Topics:	Hydrodynamics and Membrane Seal Capacity
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 4/17, 3:00-4:00 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, BEG (Bldg. 130), Main Conference Room

Speakers:	Sarah Milewski (UT DGS MS) and Engin Alkan (UT DGS MS)
Topics:	Milewski - Separating Structural from Depositional Complexity in the Eocene-Paleocene lower Wilcox "Lobo" sands, Zapata County, Texas Alkan - Multi-dimensional seismic land survey design and the application of modern seismic data acquisition technology to oil and gas exploration
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 4/17, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Theresa Diehl (UT DGS MS)
Topics:	Geoarcheaology in Greece and Egypt
Series/Event:	UTIG Brown Bag Seminars
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 04/18, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, ROC (Bldg. 196), Room 1.603

Speakers:	Adam Lambert (UT DGS MS)
Topics:	Petrology of the Heavy Sulfide Zone, Marginal Breccia, and Banded Clay, Grasberg Igneous Complex, Papua, Indonesia
Series/Event:	PGST Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 4/18, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Karl Kaiser, David Lane, Robert Keys and Douglas Foster, ConocoPhillips
Topics:	Unconventional AVO Analysis for Lithology Prediction in the Britannia Field, UK North Sea
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 4/19, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B

Speakers:	Ted Playton (UT DGS PhD)
Topics:	Foreslope stratigraphic architecture of steep reef-rimmed carbonate platforms: Examples from prograding and retrograding systems
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 4/19, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Ned Frost - JSG PhD Candidate
Topics:	Syndepositional Fracture Patterns of the Devonian Reef Complexes, Canning Basin, Western Australia
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 4/20, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, BEG (Bldg. 130), Main Conference Room

Speakers:	Samuel Mukasa, Prof. Dept of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan
Topics:	Earth's Controversial LIPs: Perspectives from the Ferrar Magmatic Province, Antarctica
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 4/20, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, ROC (Bldg. 196), Room 1.603

Speakers:	Hughbert Collier, Collier Consulting
Topics:	Details about the groundwater consulting business
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 4/20, 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.