Research couples observation on natural systems and laboratory experiments with theoretical analysis and numerical simulations to study crustal fluid flow on a wide range of scales in space and time. We address questions such as: 1) How do hydrocarbons, freshwater and brine, and CO2 move at both geological and production time scales? 2) What are the relationships among sedimentation, deformation, pore pressure, and stress? 3) What is the shallow crust's permeability and how does it vary with pore pressure, depth, tectonic environment, and diagenetic state?
 | Environmental and aqueous geochemistry, thermodynamics, surface complexation modeling, geomicrobiology, critical minerals, chemical hydrogeology
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 | Stratigraphy, basin analysis, basin-scale fluid flow, pore pressures in seafloor sediments, submarine landslides, oil and gas migration, methane hydrates, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
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 | Experimental rock physics and rock mechanics. Digital Rock Physics. Speleology.
Seismic wave attenuation, Physical properties of rocks, Wave-Induced-Phenomena, Genesis of caves and speleothems, Reservoir characterization, Nuclear waste management.
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 | sedimentology, stratigraphy, marine geology
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 | Fault and fracture mechanics, reservoir geomechanics, diagenesis and low-temperature geochemistry, fluid flow and transfer processes in sedimentary basins, deformation mechanisms of the upper crust, structural control of mass and heat transfer in sedimentary basins, effects of chemical mass transfer on the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of fractures and faults, chemical ...
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 | Fluids in diagenetic and hydrothermal systems, Fluid inclusions, Fractures, Structural diagenesis
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 | Geologic carbon sequestration in deep sedimentary environments as part of carbon capture and storage. PI of the Gulf Coast Caron Center (www.gulfcoastcarbon.org) focused on research relevant to commercial development of geologic sequestration in regions where it is both needed and possible. Monitoring field projects.
Petrography and sedimentology supporting ...
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| Source Rock Characterization
Geochemistry (Organic, Biomarker, Gas Isotope)
Mudrock Characterization
Petrography, SEM
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 | Research in carbonate, sandstone, and mudrock stratigraphy, sedimentology, diagenesis, reservoir characterization, and pore network analysis.
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 | Carbon capture and storage, CO2 sequestration, CCS, high-resolution 3D seismic acquisition, processing, and imaging; Stratigraphy, structural geology,
[link: http://www.beg.utexas.edu/gccc]
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| Hailun Ni’s research focuses on the impact of geologic heterogeneity on plume migration and trapping in CO2 geologic storage. She also manages the Sandtank Lab and uses laboratory experiments to better understand subsurface fluid flow. Ni completed a postdoctoral fellowship and is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the ...
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 | Subsurface hydrology, numerical modeling and optimization of groundwater resources, multiphase flow and contaminant transport in both the unsaturated and saturated zones, geochemistry modeling and subsurface reactive transport, Mathematical geology, geostatistics, inverse modeling, optimization, risk assessment and risk analysis
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 | Maria-Katerina Nikolinakou is currently a Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on understanding stress and pore pressure in complex geologic systems, including salt systems and accretionary prisms. She studies the behavior of geologic materials ...
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| Manager of the Texas Seismological Network and Seismology Research (TexNet). Extensive
30 years experience in Seismology and Applied Geophysics both through my research position
as a Senior Researcher and collaboration with Industrial partners in multidisciplinary
European and US funded projects. I currently manage the seismic network of Texas with 210
seismic stations ...
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 | Carbon cycle, Methane Hydrate, Hydrogeology, Flow and Transport in Porous Media, Analytical and Numerical Modeling
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