Master’s Saturday

The Master of Science (MS) degree at the Jackson School of Geosciences is considered to be the professional degree for a career in the Geosciences. This degree is the foundation for students pursuing employment in the petroleum industry, environmental and hydrogeological fields, state and federal government agencies, and other related geoscience fields. Some students also use the MS degree as preparation for pursuing a Ph.D. The Energy & Earth Resources Interdisciplinary program provides the opportunity for students to prepare themselves in management, finance, economics, law and policy leading to analytical and leadership positions in resource-related fields. The private sector and government organizations face a growing need for professionals that can plan, evaluate, and manage complex resource projects, commonly international in scope, which often include partners with a variety of professional backgrounds. As requirements for these degrees, students must present a professional talk on Master’s Saturday.

Master’s Saturday Agenda May 1, 2021

Session 1: Sediment Deposition and Tectonics from Multiple Perspectives

Session Chair: Rebecca Gao and George Segee-Wright

8:30am to 8:45am	James Hooker Gearon DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS AND STRIKE VARIABILITY OF FLUVIOLACUSTRINE SYSTEMS: EVIDENCE FROM EOCENE LAKE UINTA AND MODERN ANALOGS (Cornel Olariu)
8:45am to 9:00am	John Franey HIGH ORDER STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK OF INTRASLOPE GROWTH FAULTED SUBBASINS NEAR OFFSHORE MATAGORDA BAY, TX (Tip Meckel)
9:00am to 9:15am	Fernando M. Rey ANATOMY OF DELTAIC COMPOUND CLINOFORMS; COLORADO DELTA IN BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO, PLIOCENE COLORADO DELTA IN FISH CREEK-VALLECITO BASIN, CALIFORNIA, USA (Cornel Olariu)
9:15am to 9:30am	Jaime Ann Megumi Hirtz GEOCHRONOLOGY AND SEDIMENT PROVENANCE OF THE MESOPROTEROZOIC BELT-PURCELL SUPERGROUP OF MONTANA, USA AND ALBERTA, CANADA (Brian K. Horton)
9:30am to 9:45am	Joseph Syzdek MECHANICAL STRATIGRAPHIC CONTROL ON DEFORMATION IN A FAULTPROPAGATION FOLD, GOBBLER ANTICLINE, SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS, NM (Christopher Zahm and Charles Kerans)
9:45am to 10:00am	Leland Spangler TIMING AND CONTROLS ON LATE PALEOZOIC TECTONISM AND SYNOROGENIC SEDIMENTATION, BURSUM FORMATION, SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO, USA (Christopher Zahm and Charles Kerans)

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)
1:30pm-1:45pm	Jacob T. Burstein TRACKING BARRIER ISLAND RESPONSE TO EARLY HOLOCENE SEA LEVEL RISE: HIGH RESOLUTION STUDY OF ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS IN THE TRINITY RIVER PALEOVALLEY (John A. Goff and Sean P.S. Gulick)

Master’s Tuesday Agenda December 1, 2020

Watch Master’s Tuesday

BEST TALK: Brooklyn Gose Kinematic Restoration of the Costa Rican Convergent Margin: Exploring the Effects of a Rough Subducting Seafloor (Nathan Bangs)

Session 1: Master’s Tuesday

Session Chair: Eric Hiatt

3:30pm to 3:45pm	Colton Spears Analysis of the Depositional Systems, Lithofacies, Diagenesis, and Reservoir Quality of the Lower Cretaceous Pettet Limestone Reservoir Section in the Wright Mountain Field in the East Texas Basin (Robert G. Loucks, Xavier Janson)
3:45pm to 4:00pm	Brooklyn Gose Kinematic Restoration of the Costa Rican Convergent Margin: Exploring the Effects of a Rough Subducting Seafloor (Nathan Bangs)
4:00pm-4:15pm	Sergio Leon Marquez Selecting Green Strategies for New Stadiums: A Case Study of Austin FC (Atila Novoselac, James O’Connor)