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Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar Series
Start:May 6, 2025 at 10:00 am
End:
May 6, 2025 at 11:00 am
Contact:
Dena Miller, dena.miller@beg.utexas.edu, 512-471-2677
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar Series
Start:May 13, 2025 at 10:00 am
End:
May 13, 2025 at 11:00 am
Contact:
Dena Miller, dena.miller@beg.utexas.edu, 512-471-2677
MG&G Field Course Presentation Day
Start:May 30, 2025 at 10:00 am
End:
May 30, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Location:
ROC 1.603
Contact:
Kristen Tucek, ktucek@jsg.utexas.edu, 5124712223
Each Maymester, the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) offers a field course designed to provide hands-on instruction for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the collection and processing of marine geological and geophysical data. The course covers high-resolution air gun and streamer seismic reflection, CHIRP seismic reflection, multibeam bathymetry, sidescan sonar, sediment coring, grab sampling and the sedimentology of resulting seabed samples (e.g., core description, grain size analysis, x-radiography, etc.).
Scientific and technical experts in each of the techniques first provide students with several days of classroom instruction. The class then travels to the Gulf Coast for a week of at-sea field work and on-shore lab work. Two small research vessels are used concurrently: one for multibeam bathymetry, sidescan sonar, and sediment sampling, and the other for high-resolution seismic reflection and CHIRP sub-bottom profiling. Students rotate daily between the two vessels and lab work.
Upon returning to Austin, students work in teams to integrate data and techniques into a final project that examines the geologic history and/or sedimentary processes as typified by a small area of the Gulf Coast continental shelf. Students spend one week learning interpretation methods using industry-standard, state-of-the-art software (Focus, Landmark, Caris, Fledermaus). On the last day, students present their final project to the class and industry sponsor representatives.
DeFord Lecture | Naoki SakaiOctober, 22 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 How Landslides Grow into Disasters on a Changing Earth by Naoki Sakai, principal chief researcher, Storm, flood and landslide research division, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesOctober, 23 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Ashley Matheny PhD, Associate Professor Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, JSG, in person or via Zoom. Topic: Detangling the influences of combined stressors reveals insights into plant function across ecosystems. Forests recycle roughly ~62,000 km3 of water to the atmosphere annually. The transport of water from the subsurface to roots, stems, and leaves out through stomata, and into the atmosphere links the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum while coupling Earth’s water and carbon cycles. This biological process is regulated dynamically and often varies substantially between species in the same ecosystem in response to multiple and often combined internal and external stressors. We will analyze vignettes from two distinct ecosystems and their responses to different sets of combined stressors to gain new insight into plant function. First, we will visit mangrove ecosystems exposed to both atmospheric dryness and salinity extremes to explore how water transport regulation strategies shift from leaves to roots to maximize productivity while maintaining hydraulic function. Then we will visit semi-arid woody savanna to detangle to combined influence of soil water limitation and atmospheric aridity on wood-water storage in drought tolerant trees. Understanding the storage and transport of water through soil, woody biomass, and leaves in this and many other ecosystems is critical for predicting forest resilience, carbon sequestration, and wildfire susceptibility. Finally, we will assess the implications of both studies for the ways we simulate the dynamic regulation of water acquisition, storage, and use by trees and how these findings can directly improve predictions of forest water, carbon, and energy cycles from coastlines to the continental interior. Join Zoom Meeting: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/93201377630?pwd=KzF3TW53SFYzSUg4SUZVNGtxd3JvZz09 Meeting ID: 932 0137 7630 Passcode: 013011 |
UTIG Fall Seminar Series 2026: Zach SickmannOctober, 23 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details about this talk will be available soon. |
DeFord Lecture | Marc HirschmanOctober, 29 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesOctober, 30 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar Series presented by Mark Kittredge, OXY/SPWLA. Topic: TBD |
UTIG Fall Seminar Series 2026: Ryan VenturelliOctober, 30 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details about this talk will be available soon. |
DeFord Lecture | Andy ZuzaNovember, 05 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesNovember, 06 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Fitsume Wolkeba, BEG in person. Topic: TBD |
UTIG/BEG Joint SeminarNovember, 13 2026Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMLocation: UTIG/BEG ROC UTIG and BEG will hold a joint seminar from 3-4pm in the the ROC with reception to follow in the Connector from 4-5pm. |
UTIG Fall Seminar Series 2026: Patrick FultonNovember, 13 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details about this talk will be available soon. |