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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.
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DeFord Lecture | Shi Joyce SimOctober, 30 2025Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: Boyd Auditorium (JGB 2.324) Dynamic Habitability: From Mid-Ocean Ridges to Europa by Shi Joyce Sim, assistant professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Science at Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract: Dynamic habitability is the evolving habitability of a system, e.g., Venus might not be habitable now but might have been in the past or even in the future. The essential components of life are a solvent, the right chemistry (i.e., CHNOPS), energy that can be taken advantage of and a suitable environment. In this talk, I will attempt to look at dynamic habitability from the perspective of Earth all the way to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Uniquely on Earth, plate tectonics is intricately linked to the habitability of our blue planet. Therefore, I embark on a journey to understand plate tectonics from a modeling perspective. First, I will explore melt transport beneath mid-ocean ridge settings, where there are crucial exchanges between the Earth’s interior and the surface. This melt transport has implications for seafloor morphology and the structure and composition of the oceanic lithosphere which forms the bulk of tectonic plates. Then, I will touch upon combining fluid transport with reactive thermodynamics to understand eclogitization of the overlying crust at a subduction zone. Going to one of our nearest planetary bodies, Mars, I use a combination of two-phase flow principles and planetary thermal evolution to model volatile trapping in the early Mars magma ocean to show that there are potentially more volatiles trapped in the Martian interior than previously thought. Water is one of the major components of habitability. To understand the dynamic habitability of Mars, I show how the distribution of water in the various reservoirs can evolve over time. I will end the talk by discussing future work on understanding dynamic habitability on other planetary bodies. |
UTIG Seminar Series: Shujuan Mao, UT AustinOctober, 31 2025Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: PRC 196/ROC 1.603 Speaker: Shujuan Mao, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Texas at Austin Host: Zhe Jia TItle: 4-Dimnetional Seismology: New Dynamic Perspectives on Groundwater, Geoenergy, and Geohazards Abstract: With climate change and population growth, humanity faces critical challenges related to water security and the energy transition. Tackling these issues requires high-resolution monitoring of subsurface fluid-rock systems (e.g., aquifers and geothermal reservoirs). In this seminar, I will introduce a novel, cost-effective, and scalable approach for aquifer monitoring using passive seismic interferometry. The validity and promise of this approach will be demonstrated through several case studies of aquifers across Greater Los Angeles. I will showcase how the seismic approach offers new insights into aquifer dynamics in response to climate extremes and anthropogenic activities. I will present ongoing efforts leveraging 4D seismic interferometry and scattered wavefields to understand the dynamics in fluid-rock systems associated with geothermal and volcanic systems. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesOctober, 31 2025Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C Remote sensing, water resources presented In Person by Dr. Bridget Scanlon Research Professor, BEG |
Gateway to Graduate Studies in Sciences (G2S2)November, 06 2025Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM |
DeFord Lecture | Don FisherNovember, 06 2025Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: Boyd Auditorium (JGB 2.324) |
UTIG Seminar Series: Sophie Nowicki, University of BuffaloNovember, 07 2025Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PMLocation: PRC 196/ROC 1.603 NOTE: This seminar is hosted jointly with the Bureau of Economic Geology and will be held at 3pm. The seminar will be followed by a reception in the first floor UTIG lobby at 4pm. Speaker: Sophie Nowicki, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University at Buffalo Host: Ginny Catania Title: Rising seas: a known future, yet deeply uncertain… Abstract: Antarctica and Greenland—Earth’s two largest remaining ice sheets—have been undergoing complex changes in mass since the first satellite observations and are major contributors to current sea level rise. While it is certain that these ice sheets will continue to lose mass, how they will evolve in response to ongoing and future climate change remains one of the most uncertain aspects of global sea level projections over human timescales and beyond. This uncertainty has driven significant advances in interdisciplinary research. Ice sheet projections are no longer just a problem for glaciologists; understanding how the atmosphere and ocean will change in a warming world is now equally essential. This presentation will highlight recent progress in modeling and projections of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, underscoring the value of international collaboration. It will also explore the challenges facing community modeling and observational efforts, while emphasizing the insights gained through these intercomparison projects—and the opportunities they offer for the future. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar Series - Joint Session with UTIGNovember, 07 2025Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMLocation: ROC Polar & Climate; Ice sheet modeling in global climate models presented by Dr. Sophie Nowicki University of Buffalo BEG and UTIG Joint Seminar - reception to follow. |
UTIG Seminar Series: Meredith Kelly, Dartmouth CollegeNovember, 14 2025Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: PRC 196/ROC 1.603 Speaker: Meredith Kelly, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College Host: Nathan Bangs Research Theme: Climate & Polar; Role of the tropics in past climate changes |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesNovember, 14 2025Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG VR Room 1.116C Approaches to writing manuscripts and a short overview of ranking of publications presented In Person by Dr. Robert Loucks, Dr. Bill Ambrose, Dr. Peter Eichhubl |
Hot Science - Cool Talks: Birds are Smarter!November, 14 2025Time: 5:30 AM - 8:30 AMLocation: Welch Hall 2.224 and Grand Hallway What can birds teach us about intelligence? They may have “bird brains,” but they can solve problems, use tools, and even share culture. In the next Hot Science – Cool Talks, Dr. Carlos Botero explores how intelligence evolves and how bird brain scans are helping scientists understand it better. With surprising examples of clever bird behavior, this talk will change how you see our feathered friends forever. |
UTIG Seminar Series: Xian Wu, UT DallasNovember, 21 2025Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: PRC 196/ROC 1.603 Speaker: Xian Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas Host: Yuko Okumura Title: Tropical Pacific decadal prediction: the role of volcanic forcing and ocean initialization Abstract: Decadal climate predictions for the next 1 to 10 years provide critical information for climate adaptation and resilience planning, bridging the gap between well-established seasonal forecasts and centennial projections. As an initial condition–boundary condition problem, decadal predictions rely on both oceanic initial states and external radiative forcings. However, decadal prediction skill remains very low in the tropical Pacific, where ocean-atmosphere processes act as powerful drivers of global climate variations. Here, I will address whether this low prediction skill in the tropical Pacific arises from forecast system deficiencies or intrinsic limits of climate predictability. I will show that the tropical Pacific decadal prediction skill is unexpectedly degraded by the inclusion of historical volcanic aerosol forcing in the prediction system, due to poor model fidelity in simulating volcanic responses. In contrast, the no-volcano prediction system exhibits high skill, arising from the initial-condition memory associated with oceanic Rossby wave adjustment in the tropical Pacific. Furthermore, I will demonstrate the influence of other ocean basins on tropical Pacific decadal prediction through regional ocean initialization experiments. These findings improve our understanding of prediction system behavior in the tropical Pacific, which is crucial for advancing Earth system predictions. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesNovember, 21 2025Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMSediment-hosted metal deposits in rift basins, geodynamic modeling presented on Zoom by Dr. Anne Glerum GFZ, Helmgoltz Centre for Geosciences Germany |
Fall break / ThanksgivingNovember, 24 2025Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM |