Media Releases
November 5, 2007
Crystal Ball: Scientists Race to Foretell West Antarctica’s Unclear Future
Polar ice experts once thought Antarctica’s ice sheets were mostly immune to climate change. Research findings of the past decade have started to melt away…
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November 1, 2007
Coastal Oceanography: Mead Allison studies areas where large rivers such as the Mississippi discharge into the oceans to better understand ancient delta systems and to reconstruct paleoclimate
Mead Allison joined the Institute for Geophysics as a senior research scientist in August 2007. Allison’s research focuses on coastal geological oceanography, including both the…
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October 24, 2007
Science Online: Aaron Averett develops internet applications that incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in support of several Bureau projects
Aaron Averett joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research scientist associate in May 2006. Averett develops internet applications that incorporate Geographic Information Systems…
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September 24, 2007
Petroleum Petrophysics: Raymond Eastwood applies modern computer models to old well log data to help small, independent oil and gas companies determine reservoir potentials
Raymond Eastwood joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research fellow in October 2006, where he works in the State of Texas Advance Resource…
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September 23, 2007
His Fault: Faults, as Nick Hayman will tell you, are hazardous. They can also tell us about fundamental planetary processes such as plate tectonics
Nick Hayman joined the Institute for Geophysics as a research associate in September 2007. Hayman’s research interests include structural geology and geodynamics. He is working…
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September 20, 2007
West Texas Oil & Gas: Rebecca Jones conducts regional sedimentological and stratigraphic studies in West Texas using core, thin sections, and wireline logs
Rebecca Jones recently rejoined the Bureau of Economic Geology. She worked as a research scientist associate from 2001 to 2005 and returned to this position…
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September 14, 2007
Underwater Landslides: Lorena Moscardelli develops a classification system for submarine mass transport complexes which sometimes spawn tsunamis
Lorena Moscardelli joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research associate in June 2007, after earning her Ph.D. from the Jackson School’s Department of…
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September 9, 2007
Sound Science: Doug McCowan develops seismic analysis software to improve imaging and provide better measurements of subsurface attributes
Doug McCowan joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research associate in June 2007, working in the Marine Seismic Data Center. McCowan splits his…
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September 8, 2007
Tuning Up Climate Models: Climate models have a hard time depicting clouds and extreme rainfall events. Michael Tobis gets under the hood to tune up the models
Michael Tobis joined the Institute for Geophysics as a research scientist associate in May 2007 working in the climate research section designing, implementing, and managing…
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September 4, 2007
Outcrops as Analogs: Chris Zahm studies outcrops as analogs for subsurface reservoirs to better understand how fractures and non-matrix pores affect oil and gas flow
Chris Zahm joined the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory in January 2007, where he works on fractures and non-matrix pores in carbonate…
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November 5, 2007
Crystal Ball: Scientists Race to Foretell West Antarctica’s Unclear Future
Polar ice experts once thought Antarctica’s ice sheets were mostly immune to climate change. Research findings of the past decade have started to melt away…
Read MoreNovember 1, 2007
Coastal Oceanography: Mead Allison studies areas where large rivers such as the Mississippi discharge into the oceans to better understand ancient delta systems and to reconstruct paleoclimate
Mead Allison joined the Institute for Geophysics as a senior research scientist in August 2007. Allison’s research focuses on coastal geological oceanography, including both the…
Read MoreOctober 24, 2007
Science Online: Aaron Averett develops internet applications that incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in support of several Bureau projects
Aaron Averett joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research scientist associate in May 2006. Averett develops internet applications that incorporate Geographic Information Systems…
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2007
Petroleum Petrophysics: Raymond Eastwood applies modern computer models to old well log data to help small, independent oil and gas companies determine reservoir potentials
Raymond Eastwood joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research fellow in October 2006, where he works in the State of Texas Advance Resource…
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2007
His Fault: Faults, as Nick Hayman will tell you, are hazardous. They can also tell us about fundamental planetary processes such as plate tectonics
Nick Hayman joined the Institute for Geophysics as a research associate in September 2007. Hayman’s research interests include structural geology and geodynamics. He is working…
Read MoreSeptember 20, 2007
West Texas Oil & Gas: Rebecca Jones conducts regional sedimentological and stratigraphic studies in West Texas using core, thin sections, and wireline logs
Rebecca Jones recently rejoined the Bureau of Economic Geology. She worked as a research scientist associate from 2001 to 2005 and returned to this position…
Read MoreSeptember 14, 2007
Underwater Landslides: Lorena Moscardelli develops a classification system for submarine mass transport complexes which sometimes spawn tsunamis
Lorena Moscardelli joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research associate in June 2007, after earning her Ph.D. from the Jackson School’s Department of…
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2007
Sound Science: Doug McCowan develops seismic analysis software to improve imaging and provide better measurements of subsurface attributes
Doug McCowan joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research associate in June 2007, working in the Marine Seismic Data Center. McCowan splits his…
Read MoreSeptember 8, 2007
Tuning Up Climate Models: Climate models have a hard time depicting clouds and extreme rainfall events. Michael Tobis gets under the hood to tune up the models
Michael Tobis joined the Institute for Geophysics as a research scientist associate in May 2007 working in the climate research section designing, implementing, and managing…
Read MoreSeptember 4, 2007
Outcrops as Analogs: Chris Zahm studies outcrops as analogs for subsurface reservoirs to better understand how fractures and non-matrix pores affect oil and gas flow
Chris Zahm joined the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory in January 2007, where he works on fractures and non-matrix pores in carbonate…
Read More