Youngblood Library is located in the Sarkeys Energy Center. It is an outstanding resource for energy and geoscience education and research.

Our Students in Action!

Shayda Zahrai – Dissolving minerals in the laboratory to determine how long Mars was wet.

Advisor: Dr. Megan Elwood-Madden

ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics

geochemical experiments
geophysical investigations
field work
field trips
extreme field work

School News and Events:

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 Talk

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.