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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.