Our Students in Action!

Our Students in Action!

Shayda Zahrai – Dissolving minerals in the laboratory to determine how long Mars was wet.
Advisor: Dr. Megan Elwood-Madden
Drs. Roger M. Slatt and Younane Abousleiman will receive the Jules Braunstein Memorial Award, presented to honor and reward the best poster presentation at the 2011 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition. Their poster was entitiled “Multi-Scale, Brittle-Ductile Couplets in Unconventional Gas Shales: Merging Sequence Stratigraphy and Geomechanics.”
Special lecture on EARTHQUAKE PHYSICS
On February 1st, 2012, we will be visited by Dr. Toshi Shimamoto, Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Beijing, China. Toshi is a graduate of Texas A&M, he had a long research career in Japan (Tokyo and Kyoto), and is a world expert on experimental earthquake simulations. He will present a lecture on:
Earthquake energy budget as studied by high-velocity friction experiments and BET surface-area measurements
Time: Wed., Feb. 1, 12:00-1:00 PM Location: SEC 830
You are invited.
ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics
100 East Boyd Street, Suite 710
Norman, OK 73019
(405) 325-3253 voice
(405) 325-3140 fax
email: geology@ou.edu
The colloquium is held on Thursdays at 3:30 PM in SEC A235 unless otherwise noted
Feb. 9, 2012
Dr. Abhijit Gosh
UC Santa Cruz
Tracking slow earthquakes with seismic arrays
Feb. 2, 2012
Dr. Tanya Blacic
University of Wyoming
Fire and Water – Seismic Investigations of Volcanic and Oceanic Processes
Jan. 31, 2012 Tuesday
Special Time: 4:00 PM
Dr. Jamie Rich
Devon Energy
Unconventional Geophysics for Unconventional Plays
SEC 1446
