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)

Master’s Saturday Agenda May 2, 2020

Watch Master’s Saturday

• BEST TALK: JSG Graduate Studies Program: Samuel Grant Robbins CONSTRAINING THE TECTONO-THERMAL EVOLUTION OF THE EGYPTIAN RED SEA MARGIN: LINKING OBSERVATIONS FROM THE PROXIMAL TO HYPEREXTENDED RIFT DOMAIN (Daniel F. Stockli)
• BEST TALK: EER Graduate Studies Program: Victoria Sanchez Ibarra CAN WE MEASURE EQUITABLE ACCESS AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL SYSTEMS? A LOOK AT THE SPATIAL AND SOCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF URBAN PARKS (Kasey M. Faust)

Session 1: Advances in Sedimentary Rock Systems: From Texas to Beyond

Session Chair: Benjamin E Rendall

8:30am to 8:45am	Nelson William Waltrip EVALUATION OF REGIONAL TRENDS IN PRODUCTION FOR OLMOS AND LOWER WILCOX LOBO TRENDS, ONSHORE SOUTH TEXAS, USA (John W. Snedden, Richard Chuchla)
8:45am to 9:00am	Andrew Kearny Roberts THE PENNSYLVANIAN LOWER STRAWN GROUP, JACK AND WISE COUNTIES, FORT WORTH BASIN: FACIES DISTRIBUTION AND STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE (Ronald Steel  and William Ambrose)
9:00am to 9:15am	Esben Pedersen CARBONATE FACTORY RECOVERY FOLLOWING OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENTS: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE COW CREEK MEMBER OF THE PEARSALL FORMATION IN CENTRAL TEXAS (Charles Kerans and Toti Larson)
9:15am to 9:30am	Juan Pablo Acevedo ANALYSIS OF WASTEWATER INJECTION AND PROSPECT REGIONS FOR INDUCED SEISMICITY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE, USA (Michael H. Young)
9:30am to 9:45am	Samuel Grant Robbins CONSTRAINING THE TECTONO-THERMAL EVOLUTION OF THE EGYPTIAN RED SEA MARGIN: LINKING OBSERVATIONS FROM THE PROXIMAL TO HYPEREXTENDED RIFT DOMAIN (Daniel F. Stockli)
9:45am to 10:00am	Leo Zeng QUANTITATIVE GEOMORPHOLOGY OF A MIXED CARBONATE SILICICLASTIC SHELF-TO-BASIN SUBMARINE DRAINAGE SYSTEM, MIOCENE, BROWSE BASIN, NORTHWEST SHELF OF AUSTRALIA (Xavier Janson)
10:00am to 10:15am	Sinong Lin PROVENANCE, GEOCHRONOLOGY AND SEDIMENTARY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CAMPANIAN M1 SANDSTONE, ORIENTE BASIN, ECUADOR (Ronald J. Steel and Cornel Olariu)

Session 2: Energy, Climate, and Water (starts at 1.51 in the ZOOM video)

Session Chair: Natchanan Doungkaew

10:30am to 10:45am	Achmad Zulfikar Khomaini ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY CERTIFICATE TRADING IN TEXAS (David B Spence and Jay Zarnikau)
10:45am to 11:00am	Dilge Güldehen Kânoğlu Özkan THE SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF SHALE GAS DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE UNITED STATES (Richard J. Chuchla and John C. Butler)
11:00am to 11:15am	Jennifer E. Sauer 24X7 LOAD MATCHING WITH WIND, SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC, AND BATTERY STORAGE POWER PLANTS (John C. Butler)
11:15am to 11:30am	PAPER WITHDRAWN
11:30am to 11:45am	Hunter Manlove THE CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF MUNICIPAL WATER IN THE NATURAL HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM: URBANIZING WATERSHEDS (Jay Banner)
11:45am to 12:00pm	Stephanie Arnold OPERATING AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL, ENGINEERED, AND NATURAL SYSTEMS: THE HYDROLOGIC IMPACT OF GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE BASED ON ADOPTION RATES (Kasey Faust)
12:00pm to 12:15pm	Laura Emilia Sigelmann CLIMATE CHANGE AND MIGRATION IN CAMBODIA: AN ANALYSIS OF SPATIOTEMPORAL TRENDS IN WATER AVAILABILITY AND MIGRATION (Bridget Scanlon and Joshua Busby)

Session 3: Patterns and Technology in Earth Sciences (starts at 3.37 in the ZOOM video)

Session Chair: Wade L Aubin

12:30pm-12:45pm	Nicole Guinn CHARACTERIZING THE EVOLUTION OF DYNAMIC PRESSURE RESULTING FROM THE 18 MAY 1980 PYROCLASTIC DENSITY CURRENT OF MT. ST. HELENS USING TREE DAMAGE (Jim Gardner)
12:45pm-1:00pm	Austin Francis Rechner A COMPARISON OF TRANSPIRATION RATES FROM THREE SEMI-ARID TREE SPECIES IN RESPONSE TO PARTIAL STAND CLEARING (Ashley Matheny)
1:00pm-1:15pm	Michelle Pedrazas PATTERNS OF WEATHERING IN SEDIMENTARY BEDROCK ACROSS A SEQUENCE OF REPEATING RIDGES AND VALLEYS (Daniella Rempe)
1:15pm-1:30pm	Victoria Sanchez Ibarra CAN WE MEASURE EQUITABLE ACCESS AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL SYSTEMS? A LOOK AT THE SPATIAL AND SOCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF URBAN PARKS (Kasey M. Faust)
1:30pm-1:45pm	Emily Camille Pease THEORY-GUIDED DATA SCIENCE: COMBINING MACHINE LEARNING WITH DOMAIN EXPERTISE TO PREDICT SPRINGFLOW (Suzanne A. Pierce)
1:45pm-2:00pm	Jackson Tomski RESERVOIR PARAMETER ESTIMATION BY SEISMIC INVERSION AND MACHINE LEARNING (Mrinal K. Sen)
2:00-2:15pm	Micaela Pedrazas Hinojosa ICE-FREE LAGOON SEDIMENT IN AREAS OF ‘CONTINUOUS’ ARCTIC PERMAFROST REVEALED THROUGH ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY IMAGING (M. Bayani Cardenas)

Master’s Saturday Agenda May 4, 2019

BEST TALK: Jacob Makis GEOCHEMISTRY AND ZIRCON U/PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE ERTSBERG PLUTON, ERTSBERG-GRASBERG MINING DISTRICT, PAPUA, INDONESIA: MAGMA CHAMBER RECHARGE AND MIXING (Mark Cloos)

Sponsored by Hess Corporation

8:00am to 8:30am	Breakfast Tacos, Holland Family Student Center and Patio
8:30am to 10:00am	Session 1: Focus on Energy, JGB 2.216 Session 2: Indonesia and Beyond, JGB 3.222
10:00am to 10:30am	Break/Discussion Coffee provided in the Holland Family Student Center and Patio
10:30am to 12:15pm	Session 3: Fluids and its Records, JGB 2.216 Session 4: Exploring the Underground, JGB 3.222
12:15pm to 1:00pm	Lunch, Holland Family Student Center and Patio
1:00 pm	DGS Award Ceremony: Best Talk announced JGB 2.216

Session 1: Focus on Energy, JGB 2.216

Session Chairs: Dallas Dunlap

8:30am to 8:45am	Chinelo Agbim RESIDENTIAL TEXAS ENERGY POVERTY: A STUDY COMPARING SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF ENERGY POVERTY (Kasey Faust)
8:45am to 9:00am	Matthew Haley MODERNIZING COMMERCIAL RATE DESIGN TO ALIGN THE PRIVATE BENEFITS OF DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES WITH SYSTEM AND SOCIAL WELFARE (Fred Beach)
9:00am to 9:15am	Cody Hoffman BOOM OR BUST: TEXAS OFFSHORE WIND INDUSTRY FACES ECONOMIC CHALLENGES  (Fred Beach)
9:15am to 9:30am	Mark Reid ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EU ETS THROUGH THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR (Carey King)
9:30am to 9:45am	Izaak Ruiz CHARACTERIZATION OF THE HIGH ISLAND 24L FIELD FOR MODELING AND ESTIMATING CO2 STORAGE CAPACITY IN THE OFFSHORE TEXAS STATE WATERS, GULF OF MEXICO (Timothy A. Meckel)
9:45am to 10:00am	James Joseph Corboy TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FILM SWITCH AS A TEACHING TOOL TO IMPROVE ENERGY LITERACY (Scott Tinker)

Session 2: Indonesia and Beyond, JGB 3.222

Session Chairs: Lily Jackson

8:30am to 8:45am	Dong Hyun Kim ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND RISK MANAGEMENT FOR THE SOUTH SUMATRA NATURAL GAS PIPELINE PROJECT IN INDONESIA (David J. Eaton)
8:45am to 9:00am	Josia Timothy Simanjuntak CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHALE GAS IN INDONESIA (William Fisher and Svetlana Ikonnikova)
9:00am to 9:15am	Jacob Makis GEOCHEMISTRY AND ZIRCON U/PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE ERTSBERG PLUTON, ERTSBERG-GRASBERG MINING DISTRICT, PAPUA, INDONESIA: MAGMA CHAMBER RECHARGE AND MIXING (Mark Cloos)
9:15am to 9:30am	Clara Jean Brennan LASER STEP-HEATING AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF 4HE PARENT NUCLIDE ZONATION FOR ZIRCON 4HE/3HE THERMOCHRONOMETRY (Daniel Stockli)
9:30am to 9:45am	Yining Wang FORMATION OF DENSE PYROCLASTS BY SINTERING OF ASH PARTICLES DURING THE 1991 MT. PINATUBO PRECLIMACTIC ERUPTIONS (James Gardner)

Session 3: Fluids and its Records, JGB 2.216

Session Chairs: Sophie A Goliber and Clara Brennan

10:30am to 10:45am	Lakin K. Beal SOURCES AND PROCESSES OF IMPACTS ON STREAM WATER EVOLUTION IN A RAPIDLY URBANIZING WATERSHED IN AUSTIN, TX (Jay L. Banner)
10:45am to 11:00am	Sydney Kase TEXAS GROUNDWATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT POLICY: CONTENT MINING AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (Sheila Olmstead)
11:00am to 11:15am	Kendra Bunnell THE RESPONSE OF CENTRAL TEXAS CAVE DRIP SITES TO EXTREME EVENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOCLIMATOLOGY (Jay L. Banner)
11:15am to 11:30am	Gabriel Giacomone CHARACTERISTIC TRENDS WITHIN LOBES AND LOBE COMPLEXES OF A COARSE-GRAINED FAN, LOS MOLES FM, NEUQUEN BASIN, ARGENTINA (Ronald J. Steel and Cornel Olariu)
11:30am to 11:45am	Paul Southard IMPACT OF RIPARIAN VEGETATION ON MORPHOLOGY OF DRYLAND CHANNELS: INSIGHTS FROM SPRING-FED CHANNELS IN HENRY MOUNTAINS, UT (Joel Johnson)
11:45am to 12:00pm	Nam Phuong Pham AUTOMATIC CHANNEL DETECTION USING DEEP LEARNING (Sergey Fomel)
12:00pm to 12:15pm	Michael McCann LOW-FREQUENCY ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS OF FLUIDS (Kyle Spikes and Nicola Tisato)

Session 4: Exploring the Underground, JGB 3.222

Session Chairs: Lily Jackson and Kiara Gomez

10:30am to 10:45am	Ben Gremillion SEISMIC IMAGE INTERPOLATION FROM IRREGULAR LOCATIONS TO A 3D GRID (Sergey Fomel)
10:45am to 11:00am	Omar Ramirez Garcia GEOLOGIC CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING FOR QUANTIFYING CO2 STORAGE CAPACITY OF THE HIGH ISLAND 10-L FIELD IN TEXAS STATE WATERS, OFFSHORE GULF OF MEXICO (Timothy A. Meckel and Richard J. Chuchla)
11:00am to 11:15am	Sarah Prentice THE EFFECT OF METHANE AND FLUID GEOMETRY ON CO2 ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY  (Susan Hovorka and William Fisher)
11:15am to 11:30am	Fernando Agustin Apango Perez ANALYSIS OF HYDROCARBON UNDER-FILLED MIOCENE DEEP-WATER RESERVOIRS, EASTERN MEXICO OFFSHORE (John W. Snedden and Richard J. Chuchla)
11:30am to 11:45am	Peter Schemper DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS, LITHOFACIES, AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE JURASSIC (OXFORDIAN) SMACKOVER AND BUCKNER FORMATIONS IN VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TEXAS: A TYPE-CORE SECTION (Bob Loucks and Qilong Fu)
11:45am to 12:00pm	Cody Draper WOLFCAMPIAN SHELF-TO-BASIN STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK OF THE CENTRAL BASIN PLATFORM AND MIDLAND BASIN, ANDREWS COUNTY, TEXAS (Charlie Kerans)
12:00pm to 12:15pm	Tiannong Dong TIME- AND SPACE-DEPENDENT STOICHIOMETRY EVOLUTION OF METHANE HYDRATE FORMATION IN GLASS BEADS (Peter Flemings)