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Master's Saturday
Start:May 1, 2021 at 8:30 am
End:
May 1, 2021 at 1:30 pm
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Session 1: Sediment Deposition and Tectonics from Multiple Perspectives
Session Chair: Rebecca Gao and George Segee-Wright
Session 2: Modeling in Many Forms
Session Chair: Eric Hiatt and William Nguyen
| 10:15am to 10:30am | Helena Rose Tiedmann MODELING IN A CRISIS: OVERCOMING THE WATER SECTOR’S DATA STRUGGLES TO REALIZE THE POTENTIAL OF HYDRAULIC MODELS (Kasey M. Faust) |
| 10:30am to 10:45am | Meiyan Chen OPTIMAL ELECTRIFICATION PATHWAYS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (SSA) (Bridget R. Scanlon) |
| 10:45am to 11:00am | Bethany G Rysak ANALYSIS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURE GROWTH AND SEGMENTATION: IMPLICATIONS OF THE HFTS1 SLANT CORE, WOLFCAMP FM., MIDLAND BASIN, WEST TEXAS (Julia F. W. Gale) |
| 11:00am to 11:15am | David Wiggs A GENERALIZED MODEL TO DESCRIBE THE ELASTIC STIFFNESS TENSOR OF MUDROCKS BASED ON THE FULL STRAIN TENSOR (Peter B. Flemings) |
| 11:15am to 11:30am | Ruide Ao SYSTEMATIC COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT MACHINE LEARNING BASED EARTHQUAKE DETECTION METHODS (Daniel Trugman and Steve Grand) |
| 11:30am to 11:45am | Jasmine Renee Nelson REASSESSING MIDDLE AND INNER EAR MORPHOMETRICS AS PREDICTORS OF AUDITORY CAPABILITIES IN REPTILES (Julia A. Clarke) |
Session 3: The Impacts of Carbon
Session Chair: Cameron deFabry and Shawn Fullmer
| 12:00pm-12:15pm | Harry L. Hull CHARACTERIZING RESERVOIR QUALITY FOR GEOLOGIC STORAGE OF CO2—A CASE STUDY FROM THE LOWER MIOCENE SHORE ZONE AT MATAGORDA BAY, TEXAS (Tip Meckel) |
| 12:15pm-12:30pm | Lauren Grace Lamb SUSTAINABILITY OF CRAFT DISTILLERIES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROFITABILITY OF A CARBON NEUTRAL CRAFT DISTILLERY IN CENTRAL TEXAS (Fred Beach) |
| 12:30pm-12:45pm | Melianna Ulfah PLUME MIGRATION AND PRESSURE EVOLUTION ANALYSES FOR RECOMMENDATIONS IN OFFSHORE CO2 STORAGE ACREAGE LEASING POLICY (Susan D. Hovorka) |
| 12:45pm-1:00pm | Andrew Murosko A CASH FLOW MODEL OF CARBON CAPTURE RETROFIT INVESTMENT IN TEXAS POWER GENERATION USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (James S. Dyer) |
| 1:00pm-1:15pm | Arnold Oseiy Aluge SCREENING AND ASSESSING THE CO2 STORAGE POTENTIAL OF CO2-EOR IN ONSHORE OIL FIELDS IN LOUISIANA (Susan D. Hovorka) |
| 1:15pm-1:30pm | Eiji Kawai THE ROLE OF CARBON CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL SECTOR DECARBONIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF JAPAN (Benjamin D. Leibowicz) |
UTIG Discussion Hour: Wei Wei, UTIG (PhD Talk)
Start:May 4, 2021 at 2:00 pm
End:
May 4, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Location:
Zoom Meeting
Contact:
Naoma McCall, nmccall@utexas.edu
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Speaker: Wei Wei, Graduate Research Assistant, UTIG
Title: Bathymetric and subglacial hydrological context for the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves
LEO Seminar Series: Kiara Gomez and Estephania Salgado-Jauregui
Start:May 5, 2021 at 1:00 pm
End:
May 5, 2021 at 2:00 pm
Location:
Zoom
The purpose of LEO is to create a more inclusive and educated community within the JSG by sharing and listening to each other’s stories. Speakers will interview each other and talk about why they are involved in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts and the heart behind their work. By learning more about why individuals are involved in DEI, we will broaden our understanding of the impacts the JSG is making on students, faculty, staff, and greater society. Taking initiative to get to know each other, ask questions, and Listen to Each Other is a skill that will propel us further to be leaders in the geosciences.
Nathalie Voisin, Ph.D. - University of Washington
Start:May 6, 2021 at 11:00 am
End:
May 6, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Contact:
Dena Miller, dena.miller@beg.utexas.edu
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Nathalie Voisin, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, Earth System Predictability Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, WA Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Advances and Gaps in the Integration of Hydrologic Sciences in Power System Studies
Efficient and reliable operation of power grids requires managing a balance between energy production and electricity demand. The U.S. relies heavily on fresh surface water-dependent electricity generation, using water as fuel for hydropower and coolant for water dependent thermo-electric plants. There are however large disparities in the generation mix and overall power grid operations across the three continental U.S. power grids. Focusing on the Western U.S. interconnect, we demonstrated the sensitivity of contemporary grid operations to inter-annual variations in regional water availability. Leveraging the water-energy modeling framework, we then evaluated the sensitivity of the contemporary power grid to water availability compounded with changes in natural gas price, and the sensitivity to future water availability and its propagation onto regional market dynamics. Acknowledging that long term energy planning is driven by a variety of factors, we extended the approach to integrate future water availability in long term resources adequacy and reliability studies using both capacity expansion and production cost models over the Western U.S. interconnect. I will present those scientific advances along with ongoing research including the integration of hydrometeorological science for both load and generation. I will discuss regional strategies for the modeling integration and I will address modeling gaps, which range from diversity in production cost models, representation of water-sensitive operations, and the role of markets and agents of decision making.
UT Paleontology Seminar: Dr. Melissa Kemp
Start:May 6, 2021 at 11:00 am
End:
May 6, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Location:
Contact jamoretti@utexas.edu for Zoom link
Contact:
John A Moretti, jamoretti@utexas.edu
Dr. Melissa Kemp (Integrative Biology)
Research Interests: Conservation paleobiology, Evolutionary ecology, Island biogeography, Ancient DNA
DeFord Lecture: Dawn Wright
Start:May 6, 2021 at 4:00 pm
End:
May 6, 2021 at 5:00 pm
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52 Million Points and Counting: A New Stratification Approach for Mapping and Modeling the Ocean
About Dr. Dawn Wright (ESRI)
Chief Scientist of Esri; Seafloor mapping and tectonics, ocean conservation, environmental informatics, and ethics in information technology.
DeFord Lecture Series
Since the 1940’s, the DeFord (Technical Sessions) lecture series, initially the official venue for disseminating EPS graduate student research, is a forum for lectures by distinguished visitors and members of our community. This is made possible through a series of endowments.
Dr. Dara Entekhabi - MIT
Start:May 7, 2021 at 9:00 am
End:
May 7, 2021 at 10:00 am
Contact:
Dena Miller, dena.miller@beg.utexas.edu
Habitability Seminar: Sonia Tikoo-Schantz, Stanford University
Start:May 10, 2021 at 1:00 pm
End:
May 10, 2021 at 2:00 pm
Location:
Zoom Meeting
Contact:
David Goldstein, david@oden.utexas.edu
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A seminar from the Center for Planetary Systems Habitability
Title: Lunar Magnetism
Speaker: Sonia Tikoo-Schantz, Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
Dr. Jacob Covault - Bureau, QCL Consortium
Start:May 14, 2021 at 9:00 am
End:
May 14, 2021 at 10:00 am
Contact:
Dena Miller, dena.miller@beg.utexas.edu
Hot Science At Home "I Spy the Eye of the Aye-Aye"
Start:May 21, 2021 at 7:00 pm
End:
May 21, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Location:
Online (YouTube and Facebook)
Contact:
Didey Montoya, didey@austin.utexas.edu, 5124714211
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What can an Aye-Aye teach us about human vision? Chris Kirk explains how his research related to these intense-looking and enigmatic primates helps us understand human vision.
The event will be streamed online through YouTube and Facebook and will include a Q&A with Dr. Kirk.
For additional information about other events, please visit www.hotsciencecooltalks.org.
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesFebruary, 27 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: Zoom BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Anne Glerum on Zoom. Topic: Geodynamic controls on clastic-dominated zinc-lead deposit formation |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Mark LeverFebruary, 27 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 Speaker: Mark Lever, Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin Title: Population dynamics of methane-cycling microorganisms in subseafloor sediments Host: Kehua You |
DeFord Lecture | Mattia PistoneMarch, 05 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 Exploring Gas Accumulation in Magmas: Bridging the Gap Between Field and Laboratory Measurements by Mattia Pistone, associate professor at the University of Georgia Abstract: Gas accumulation in magmas prior to eruptions represents a key process that controls the explosivity of volcanoes. The efficiency of accumulating gas in a magma is modulated by chemical and physical parameters such as magma ascent rate, modal proportions of melt, minerals, and exsolved fluids in the magma, and geochemistry of mafic to felsic magmas and associated fluids. Currently, we deal with an interesting conundrum of data acquisition. In the field, we largely monitor and study mafic volcanoes because they degas and erupt more frequently than their felsic counterparts. Vice versa, in the lab, we often study pre-eruptive gas accumulation in felsic magmas that are commonly associated to the most hazardous volcanism. In this case, lab experiments are often conducted using felsic materials because they are thick/viscous (all the phases including gas bubbles are efficiently trapped), undercooled (“slow and lazy” in crystallising), and geochemically evolved (their composition does not change much during the experiment). In this seminar, I want to explore this dichotomy of lessons that we gain from natural volcanoes and laboratory. Based on my research in the lab and in the field, I will showcase my attempt in filling the existing gap in knowledge between mafic and felsic systems by exploring: 1) how gas bubbles influence magma transport, and 2) how gas geochemistry modulates the level of isolated porosity in magmas. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesMarch, 06 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Gabriel Pasquet, in person. Topic: Natural hydrogen, field survey, Texas |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Andrew HoffmanMarch, 06 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details on this seminar will be available soon. |
DeFord Lecture | Sarah KatzMarch, 12 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 Andean Climate and Hydrology over the Last 650,000 Years: Insights from Lake Junín, Peru by Sarah Katz, postdoctoral associate at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the hydroclimate history of the central Peruvian Andes over the last 650,000 years. Specifically, I will show how carbonate clumped and triple oxygen isotope measurements from Lake Junín (11°S) sediment cores can be used to reconstruct ancient monsoon dynamics, local water balance and temperatures, and sediment transport in the basin. First, I will present evidence linking South American Monsoon intensity to Earth’s orbital configuration during two recent interglacial periods. Further, I will show that these forcings directly impact local water balance, linking tropical hydroclimate to global climate forcings. Second, we will examine the glacial intervals of the core when carbonate isotope stratigraphy is compromised by detrital carbonates; I will present a framework for using clumped isotopes to extract meaningful paleoclimate information from the Junín cores and other carbonate archives. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesMarch, 13 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Zoltan Sylvester in person. Topic: Accreting, fast and slow: Geometry, kinematics and sediment load of sinuous channels |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Craig MartinMarch, 13 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details on this seminar will be available soon. |
2026 Solar Climate Intervention Impacts on Extremes (SCI-EX) WorkshopMarch, 25 2026Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 About the 2026 Solar Climate Intervention Impacts on Extremes WorkshopThe first SCI-EX workshop will focus on impacts on extreme climate events under stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB). The goal of the workshop is to explore and develop internal and external collaborations to expand and advance solar climate intervention research at UT Austin. The workshop will be organized around three main topics, including (1) Downscaled and high-resolution SCI simulations, (2) Cascading and compounding extremes under SCI, and (3) S2S2D predictability under SCI. We will also have speakers that will be discussing ethical and funding considerations of SCI research. For more information, including how to submit an abstract, please reach out to Danielle Touma. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesMarch, 27 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Daniella Rempe (EPS UT Austin) in person Topic: Hydrology, near surface environment |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Rachel AbercrombieMarch, 27 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details on this seminar will be available soon. |