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De Ford Lecture Series: Joel Johnson
Start:September 1, 2016 at 4:00 am
End:
September 1, 2016 at 5:00 am
De Ford Lecture Series: John Lassiter
Start:September 6, 2016 at 4:00 pm
End:
September 6, 2016 at 5:00 pm
UGS Speaker
Start:September 7, 2016
End:
September 7, 2016
Contact:
Danny Anderson
Jennifer Jordan – Career Services
Engineering Career Expo
Start:September 7, 2016 at 11:00 am
End:
September 8, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Location:
Frank Erwin Center
Frank Erwin Center
All UT students welcome with UT EID.
Professional dress code
iPGST
Start:September 7, 2016 at 12:00 pm
End:
September 7, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Location:
JGB 3.222
Contact:
Emily H.G. Cooperdock, emilyhgoldstein@utexas.edu
Informal Petrology, Geochemistry, Structure and Tectonics Seminar
Interview Ace Interactive Workshop
Start:September 7, 2016 at 5:00 pm
End:
September 7, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Location:
JGB 2.112 A Conference Rm.
Contact:
Maurine Riess, mriess@jsg.utexas.edu, 512-232-7673
Practice the ‘best practices’ to ace your upcoming interview.
Engineering Career Expo
Start:September 8, 2016 at 10:00 am
End:
September 8, 2016 at 4:00 pm
Location:
Frank Erwin Center
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Engineering Career Expo
Start:September 7, 2016 at 11:00 am
End:
September 8, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Location:
Frank Erwin Center
Frank Erwin Center
All UT students welcome with UT EID.
Professional dress code
De Ford Lecture Series: Shemin Ge
Start:September 8, 2016 at 4:00 pm
End:
September 8, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Location:
JGB2.324
Midland Happy Hour for Energy Professionals
Start:September 8, 2016 at 5:00 pm
End:
September 8, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Location:
Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, 1500 Interstate 20 West in Midland, TX
Contact:
Kristen Tucek, ktucek@jsg.utexas.edu, 512-471-2223
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UT petroleum engineering alumna and host Jill Miller (BS PE ’85) invites oil and gas professionals to the 2016 Midland Alumni Happy Hour. Join our host as well as geology professor and Senior Research Scientist, Charlie Kerans, for the opportunity to reconnect and network with fellow Longhorns at a fun and casual event.
UTIG Seminar Series: Mathieu Morlighem, UC Irvine
Start:September 9, 2016 at 10:30 am
End:
September 9, 2016 at 11:30 am
Location:
PRC ROC Room 1.603
Contact:
Ginny Catania, gcatania@ig.utexas.edu, 471-0403
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TITLE:
The challenge of modeling ice sheets in a changing climate
ABSTRACT:
Ice sheets are dynamic systems that interact with other components of the Earth System and are among the strongest contributors to sea level rise. Observations over the last three decades have shown that the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets have been losing mass at an increasing rate. How the ice sheets respond to the warming of the ocean and the atmosphere has become today one of the most urgent questions in understanding the implications of global climate change. Numerical modeling is the only effective way of addressing this problem. Yet, despite significant improvements in ice sheet models over the past decade, the predictive skills of the new generation of models remain limited over short time scales (tens to hundreds of years). The primary reasons for this lack of reliability are (1) the level of uncertainty in many important model inputs, such as bed topography, geothermal heat flux or ocean-induced melting patterns, and (2) poor understanding of physical processes such as iceberg calving. Here, we discuss the advent of the new generation of ice sheet models with a more complete physics, present some major challenges that we have overcome, and detail the future challenges of the ice sheet modeling community.
Chevron Tailgate Party
Start:September 10, 2016 at 4:00 pm
End:
September 10, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Location:
JGB Patio & Career Center
Contact:
Maurine Riess, mriess@jsg.utexas.edu, 512-232-7673
RSVP for this annual ‘tailgate’ party hosted by Chevron.
Working the Career Fair
Start:September 12, 2016 at 4:30 pm
End:
September 12, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Location:
JGB 2.112 A Conference Rm.
Contact:
Jennifer Jordan, jjordan@jsg.utexas.edu, 512-232-0893
How to plan for the upcoming career fair: What to say? How to say it?
Mock Interviews w/ JSG Alumni
Start:September 13, 2016 at 9:00 am
End:
September 13, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Location:
JGB 2.106A & 2.106 B
Practice your interview in a real face-to-face mock interview with a JSG alumnus.
Sign up on Career Connections-find the jobs titled Mock Interview w/ JSG Alumni
UGS Speaker
Start:September 14, 2016
End:
September 14, 2016
Contact:
Danny Anderson
Mark Helper: “Astronaut Geoscience Training – The How, Where and Why”
iPGST: Staci Loewy, UT Austin
Start:September 14, 2016 at 12:00 pm
End:
September 14, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Location:
JGB 3.222
Contact:
Emily H.G. Cooperdock, emilyhgoldstein@utexas.edu
Informal Petrology, Geochemistry, Structure and Tectonics Seminar
De Ford Lecture Series: Ty Ferre
Start:September 15, 2016 at 4:00 pm
End:
September 15, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Location:
JGB2.324
Employer Palooza & Student Runway Show
Start:September 15, 2016 at 6:00 pm
End:
September 15, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Location:
Holland Family Student Center, JGB 2.102
Contact:
Jennifer Jordan, jjordan@jsg.utexas.edu
A pre- 2016 Geosciences Career Fair event to welcome employers and students. Come mix and mingle with recruiters, ask questions of our employer panel of experts, and stay for the special student-run What & Whatnot to Wear Runway Show.
JSG 2016 Geosciences Career Fair
Start:September 16, 2016 at 10:00 am
End:
September 16, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Location:
Student Activity Center Ballroom, SAC 2.410-2.412
Annual Fall Career Fair for graduates and undergraduates. All UT students are welcome though employers are focused on hiring students from the Jackson School.
UTIG Seminar Series: Nicola Tesato, Assistant Professor (JSG)
Start:September 16, 2016 at 10:30 am
End:
September 16, 2016 at 11:30 am
Location:
PRC ROC Room 1.603
Contact:
Nick Hayman, hayman@ig.utexas.edu, 512-471-7721
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Seismic Wave Attenuation in saturated rocks: theory, laboratory- and numerical-experiments
Abstract:
Geophysical methods allow exploring the subsurface and rely on physical properties of rocks. In the case of seismic tomography, the knowledge of rheology is pivotal to infer the structure and composition of the Earth interior. Nonetheless, very often geophysicists treat geo-material as purely elastic overlooking at the role of viscoelasticity in absorbing seismic energy. During the seminar I will introduce viscoelasticity in saturated rocks and how fluids can produce frequency dependent attenuation and dispersion. Focusing on sandstones saturated with different portions of gas and liquids, I will present laboratory experiments performed to investigate wave-induced-fluid-flow and wave-induced-gas-exsolution-dissolution and how these attenuation mechanisms could be modelled revealing details about subsurface saturation. The present work aims at improving the imaging of subsurface to reveal, for instance, the formation of gas bubbles in volcanic or in oil and gas reservoirs.
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 19, 2016
End:
September 23, 2016
Apply by 9/11/16-9/15/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
ConocoPhillips
Schlumberger
ExxonMobil
Chevron ETC
Peregrine Petroleum
EOG Resources
Apache Corp
BHP Billiton Petroleum
College of Natural Sciences Career Fair
Start:September 20, 2016
End:
September 20, 2016
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 19, 2016
End:
September 23, 2016
Apply by 9/11/16-9/15/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
ConocoPhillips
Schlumberger
ExxonMobil
Chevron ETC
Peregrine Petroleum
EOG Resources
Apache Corp
BHP Billiton Petroleum
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 19, 2016
End:
September 23, 2016
Apply by 9/11/16-9/15/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
ConocoPhillips
Schlumberger
ExxonMobil
Chevron ETC
Peregrine Petroleum
EOG Resources
Apache Corp
BHP Billiton Petroleum
iPGST: Alissa Kotowski, UT Austin
Start:September 21, 2016 at 12:00 pm
End:
September 21, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Location:
JGB 3.222
Contact:
Emily H.G. Cooperdock, emilyhgoldstein@utexas.edu
Informal Petrology, Geochemistry, Structure and Tectonics Seminar
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 19, 2016
End:
September 23, 2016
Apply by 9/11/16-9/15/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
ConocoPhillips
Schlumberger
ExxonMobil
Chevron ETC
Peregrine Petroleum
EOG Resources
Apache Corp
BHP Billiton Petroleum
De Ford Lecture Series: Vitor Abreu
Start:September 22, 2016 at 4:00 pm
End:
September 22, 2016 at 5:00 pm
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 19, 2016
End:
September 23, 2016
Apply by 9/11/16-9/15/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
ConocoPhillips
Schlumberger
ExxonMobil
Chevron ETC
Peregrine Petroleum
EOG Resources
Apache Corp
BHP Billiton Petroleum
UTIG Seminar Series: Christodolous Kyriakopoulos, UC Riverside
Start:September 23, 2016 at 10:30 am
End:
September 23, 2016 at 11:30 am
Location:
PRC ROC Room 1.603
Contact:
Jake Walter, jwalter@ig.utexas.edu, 512-669-8830
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Understanding the evolution of the seismic cycle requires both the ability to accurately observe and to model different styles of tectonic deformation in different time scales. The challenge here is not only to break down this complex puzzle of events into discrete time periods, but most importantly to analyze the prevailing factors that control the accumulation (interseismic locking), release (earthquake), and restoration (postseismic and next interseismic phase) of stresses throughout the seismic cycle. Another important factor is the tectonic setting, which generally determines the quality and density of the observations and consequently our efficiency in resolving model parameters. In particular, I will talk about two case studies: first, the seismic cycle around the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. I will show how this was imaged during the last 20 years by permanent and campaign GPS, measuring late-interseismic coupling, slow-slip events, a M7.6 earthquake in 2012, and its associated afterslip. Furthermore, I will show how interface topography controls the interseismic locking distribution (Kyriakopoulos et al., 2015, JGR; Kyriakopoulos and Newman, 2016, JGR).
In the second part of my talk, I will present an investigation of the M7.2 2010 El Mayor Cucapah Earthquake. Here I combine a 3D finite element model of fault slip fitted to InSAR data of the event, with multi-segment dynamic rupture models that are designed to match this inverted slip distribution. By combining InSAR observations with dynamic rupture modeling, we are able to generate physically-reasonable models that match primary observations of this event.
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 26, 2016
End:
September 30, 2016
Apply by 9/18/16-9/22/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
Hess Corp. IT
Hess Corp Geosciences
Chevron Geosciences
Anadarko Petroleum
Hilcorp Energy
Alumni Reception during GSA in Denver
Start:September 26, 2016 at 6:00 pm
End:
September 26, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Location:
Appaloosa Grill, 535 16th Street #110, Denver, CO
Contact:
Kristen Tucek, ktucek@jsg.utexas.edu, 512-471-2223
Join fellow alumni, students, faculty and friends for a networking reception while the GSA meeting is in Denver. Even if you are not attending the GSA meeting, come by the reception to catch up with the Jackson School.
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 26, 2016
End:
September 30, 2016
Apply by 9/18/16-9/22/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
Hess Corp. IT
Hess Corp Geosciences
Chevron Geosciences
Anadarko Petroleum
Hilcorp Energy
UGS Speaker
Start:September 28, 2016
End:
September 28, 2016
Contact:
Danny Anderson
Daniella Rempe: “Ecological significance of fractured rock in the critical zone.”
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 26, 2016
End:
September 30, 2016
Apply by 9/18/16-9/22/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
Hess Corp. IT
Hess Corp Geosciences
Chevron Geosciences
Anadarko Petroleum
Hilcorp Energy
iPGST: Edward Marshall, UT Austin
Start:September 28, 2016 at 12:00 pm
End:
September 28, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Location:
JGB 3.222
Contact:
Emily H.G. Cooperdock, emilyhgoldstein@utexas.edu
Informal Petrology, Geochemistry, Structure and Tectonics Seminar
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 26, 2016
End:
September 30, 2016
Apply by 9/18/16-9/22/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
Hess Corp. IT
Hess Corp Geosciences
Chevron Geosciences
Anadarko Petroleum
Hilcorp Energy
On-Campus Interviews begin
Start:September 26, 2016
End:
September 30, 2016
Apply by 9/18/16-9/22/16 for these employer’s posted jobs on Career Connections:
Hess Corp. IT
Hess Corp Geosciences
Chevron Geosciences
Anadarko Petroleum
Hilcorp Energy
UTIG Seminar Series: Steve Phillips, Postdoc, UTIG
Start:September 30, 2016 at 10:30 am
End:
September 30, 2016 at 11:30 am
Location:
PRC ROC Room 1.603
Contact:
Peter Flemings, pflemings@jsg.utexas.edu, 512-475-9520
The influence of the Indian monsoon on productivity and sedimentation in the northern Bay of Bengal over the last glacial-interglacial cycle
The Indian monsoon drives seasonal changes in precipitation and runoff across India as well as circulation and productivity in the northern Indian Ocean. I will present a multi-proxy analysis of a sediment record (since 110 ka) from the offshore Mahanadi Basin recovered during the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 01 (Site NGHP-01-19B) within the core convective region of the Indian monsoon. These results highlight the offshore Mahanadi Basin as a supply-dominated margin where terrigenous sedimentation is strongly influenced by monsoon intensity, and that biological productivity is likely limited by variation in monsoon-driven ocean stratification on glacial-interglacial timescales rather than a direct response to monsoon winds. Evidence of reduced chemical weathering and an increase in C4 plant material suggest more arid conditions between 70 and 10 ka. The mass-accumulation rate of CaCO3, a function of marine productivity, drastically increased between 70 and 10 ka and is correlated to a previously-documented increase in Bay of Bengal surface salinity. This evidence for a weakened summer monsoon and reduced stratification between 70 and 10 ka is correlated to elevated eastern Asian dust content in Greenland ice cores.
http://ig.utexas.edu/staff/steve-phillips/
Planetary Habitability Seminar SeriesApril, 22 2024Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: PMA 15.216B UT Center for Planetary Systems Habitability Seminar Series. See website for speaker schedule and more details: View Events Join remotely: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/94052130734 In person: Classroom 15.216B, Physics, Math and Astronomy Bldg. UT Austin, Department of Astronomy 2515 Speedway, Stop C1400 Austin, Texas 78712-1205 |
UTIG Discussion Hour: Nicholas Montiel - PhD Talk (UTIG)April, 23 2024Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMLocation: ROC 2.201 |
UTIG Seminar Series: Cornelia Rasmussen, UTIGApril, 26 2024Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: PRC 196/ROC 1.603 Speaker: Cornelia Rasmussen, Research Associate, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Host: Krista Soderlund Title: The Emerging Field Of Position-Specific Isotope Analysis: Applications in chemical forensics, exobiology, geo- and environmental sciences Abstract: Complex organics can be found all over our solar system and within each living thing on our planet, be it as part of its physiology or as a contaminant. However, different processes can lead to the formation of chemical identical molecules. This makes answering a number of scientific questions challenging. One example is distinguishing between biotic and abiotic molecules, hence hindering life detection on early Earth but especially on other planetary bodies, such as on Mars, Titan, Enceladus and on meteorites where organics have been detected. Moreover, tracing molecules as they move through the environment can be demanding, yet is essential in studying the flow of organic molecules as well as correlating pollutants with their source. Novel tools to address these challenges are currently being developed. Especially, the emerging field of position-specific isotope analysis is beginning to grant access to the unique intramolecular carbon (13C/12C) isotope fingerprint preserved in complex molecules. This fingerprint can be applied in various scientific disciplines, ranging from forensics to exobiology, geo- and environmental sciences, including geo health. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) has the potential to become a key player in this research area, as it allows the analysis of organics within complex mixtures, all without the need to fragment the molecule into single carbon units or the combustion of the molecule of interest. We have been developing several NMR tools that allow us to investigate the intramolecular carbon isotope distribution within various molecule classes and to test the central hypothesis that the position-specific carbon isotope distribution within complex organics depends on a molecule’s source and formation history. |
Planetary Habitability Seminar SeriesApril, 29 2024Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: PMA 15.216B UT Center for Planetary Systems Habitability Seminar Series. See website for speaker schedule and more details: View Events Join remotely: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/94052130734 In person: Classroom 15.216B, Physics, Math and Astronomy Bldg. UT Austin, Department of Astronomy 2515 Speedway, Stop C1400 Austin, Texas 78712-1205 |
UTIG Discussion Hour: Kristian Chan - PhD Talk (UTIG)April, 30 2024Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMLocation: ROC 2.201 |