Congratulations to our SAnD researcher Enry Sihombig who will be heading to Indonesia this May for the Indonesia Petroleum Association (IPA) Convention and Exhibition 2018 where he will present his research on:
This Spring SAnD had the absolute pleasure of hosting Dallas Dunlap of the University of Texas, Austin during his visit to CSM. Dallas delivered a well received, exciting talk titled Ancient Carbonate Channel-Levee Systems: Browse Basin, NW Shelf Australia for the eight Van Tuyl in the spring series.
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AAPG ACE meeting will be held at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah May 19-21, 2018. SAND will have a research booth, alongside other booths held by our colleagues in CoRE and MUDTOC. SAND Presentations at the meeting include:
Hehe will be with the SAND group for a fifteen month visiting scholar research program. He is busy mapping the Jurassic-age drainages of the Rankin Platform, offshore northwest China and looking at mass balance of erosion and deposition in the Dampier rift systems.
Enry will be pursuing his Msc in geology, with his research detailing the sedimentological characteristics of lacustrine associated reservoir in transtensional rift basins. His main area of study is located in the Jatibarang Subbasin, NW Java.
We would also like to thank S4SLIDE for awarding 2 grants, of $500 each to Hang Deng and Sebastian Cardona to relieve the costs of travel to attend and present posters for AAPG ACE 2017.
Sebastian Cardona has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Science Support Program to attend the 2017 Petrophysics Summer School workshop organized by the European Petrophysics Consortium (EPC) and collaboration from the ECORD (European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling), IODP (International Ocean Discovery Program), BP, Schlumberger, and Total E&P.
This second Petrophysics Summer School will take place in the University of Leicester, UK from July 2-7, 2017 and will provide a unique platform that will bring together experts from both academia and industry to give training in the theory and practice of petrophysics and, notably its applications across both IODP and industry.
AAPG ACE meeting will be held in Houston, Texas April 2-5. SAND will have a research booth #1209, alongside other booths held by our colleagues in CoRE and MUDTOC. SAND Presentations at the meeting include:
Sebastian Cardona (PhD candidate) has been accepted as a scientist for the shipboard party of International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Creeping Gas Hydrate Slides and Hikurangi LWD Expedition (372). The Expedition 372 Co-Chief Scientists (CCs) are Ingo Pecher (University of Auckland) and Philip Barnes (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research).
Dr. Lesli Wood attended a two day workshop in London sponsored by the S4SLIDE program, a community effort funded by UNESCO IGCP. The workshop brought together a group of scientists working on mass failures around the world, at multiple scales, multiple ages and in multiple settings to discuss design of a community database in mass failures (photo right).
Dr. Zane Jobe (photo left) and Dr. Lesli Wood both gave key note addresses at the currently in progress Deepwater Systems: Advances and Applications Conference going on in London at the Royal Geological Society.
PhD student Sebastian Cardona was the lastest awardee of the Stephen E Laubach Structural diagenesis Fellowship. This award addresses the rapidly growing recognition that fracturing, cement precipitation and dissolution, evolving rock mechanical properties and other structural diagenetic processes can govern recovery of resources and sequestration of material in deeply buried, diagenetically altered and fractured sedimentary rocks. The award highlights the growing need to break down disciplinary boundaries between structural geology and sedimentary petrology, exemplified by the work of Dr. Stephen Laubach and colleagues.
P. Hou
Theme 9: Clastic and Carbonate Reservoir Prediction and Characterization II
Title: Stratigraphic Architecture and Depositional Environments of A Mud-Rich, Fine-Grained Early Foreland Source-to-Sink System: Pennsylvanian Atoka Formation in Arkansas (Poster)
Authors: P. Hou, L. J. Wood and Z. R. Jobe
SAND and CSM welcome Dr. Rob Gawthorpe, Professor at the University of Bergen Norway, to a one year sabbatical in the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at CSM. Rob is a world thought leader in rift basin evolution and fill, as well as deepwater and continental margin depositional systems. SAND students and researchers are looking forward to collaborating with Rob on work in the continental Rio Grande Rift of New Mexico as well as in a multitude of other areas. Welcome Rob!
About time! After working in the San Juan Basin for nearly 25 years, we led our first field trip for the Four Corners Geological Society. It was an opportunity to thank a group of people who have been so generous with their support of students and providing their expertise and data. It was a short, two day affair but what a great group of people. Attendees included Jim and Sarah Fassett who has worked in the basin his entire life and published several seminal papers on the basin, as well as brand new geos. Alex Cheney (MS Candidate CSM SAND) and Matthew Huels (New SAND MS Student) both assisted in the trip and shared their own interests. A good time was had by all.
On June 10th SAnD had the pleasure of hosting two remarkable geophysicists from INPEX at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) campus: Mr. Masamichi Fujimoto (Senior Geophysicist) and Mr. Satoshi Ishikawa (Geophysicist), both traveled from Japan, to meet with Dr. Lesli J. Wood and their fellow colleague, and SAnD Researcher Hirofumi Kobayashi.
Sebastian Cardona is at Statoil in Austin, Texas.
Alex Cheney is at BHPBilliton in Houston, Texas.
Andrew Reisdorf is at Schlumberger in Houston, Texas.
Stephen Schwarz is at Aera Energy in Bakersfield, California.
Leiaka Welcome is at HAKS in New York City.
On Sunday May 15th, upon completion of a successful spring semester, several members of SAnD, along with members of the CSM AAPG chapter, under the guidance of Dr. Lesli J. Wood embarked on a weeklong field trip to the island of Trinidad. The group of 17 (16 students and Dr. Wood) arrived in Trinidad on Sunday May 15th and departed on Saturday May 21st,after both a successful and enjoyable trip.
The days comprised of several stops at various destinations throughout the island, active discussion, and lectures which addressed the respective geologic themes. Some of the stops included, but were not limited to the following localities:
On March 25th, 2016, the Graduate Student Government hosted the 1st Annual Graduate Research And Discovery Symposium (CSMGRADS) at the Colorado School of Mines. During the symposium a student poster presentation was held from 1:00 to 4:00 pm in the Student Center Grand Ballrooms, on CSM Campus. The following SAnD members presented posters during the session:
The data collected in this trip includes: measured sections from Webco Quarry, hand samples from Webco Quarry, more photos panels of all the walls in the Webco Quarry, more trace and body fossil photos from Webco Quarry, more photo panels from the Blue Mountain Dam outcrop, more outcrops along Mount Magazine along Highway 309, photo panels from the Midway Quarry (Schwarz Stone Co.) of the Pennsylvanian Hartshorne Sandstone, and some other un-visited outcrop localities of Atoka along Interstate 40 of the Atoka Formation, which should be paid more attention to for future field work.
Bartshe Endowment
Established through the generosity of R. Timothy Bartshe, an alumnus who received degrees in mining engineering in 1971 and geological engineering in 1973, the Bartshe Endowment supports the thesis-related expenses of geology graduate students specializing in stratigraphy and sedimentology.
3. The CSM Student Poster Fair is happening from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on the CSM Campus on Thursday February 18th, and amid the group, we have 13 SAnD students presenting posters on their work. Topics include:
Sebastian Cardona (PhD Candidate) will attend the 7th International Conference for Submarine Mass Failures and their Consequences at the end of October to be held in Wellington, New Zealand. Sebastian will present his work on the sealing properties of mass transport deposits in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S., as well as co-lead the conference field trip. Following the meeting, Sebastian a
Mimi Do (MS Candidate) has been awarded a grant from ASD Inc, a Boulder based company recognized for providing high performance analytical instrumentation, as part of their Students in Mining and Energy initiative that will allow her to utilize their state-of-the-art hyperspectral scanner during upcoming field work in the deepwater deposits of the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Mimi is assessing the ability to map the distribution of clay types in outcrop and possibly tie their distribution to depositional process and facies.
Sebastian Cardona and Maria Prieto both received significant financial grants from the organizers of the upcoming 7th International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences (funding by E-MARSHAL/IGCP-585 and S4SLIDE/IGCP-640) to be held this fall in New Zealand. Both Maria and Sebastian will be presenting their research, and Sebastian will be co-leading a field trip in association with the conference.
Maria Prieto has just completed a manuscript for submission to the proceedings of the upcoming 7th International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences to be held in New Zealand this fall. She will present the results of her work in current-driven sedimentation along continental margins.
Sebastian Cardona will present his research in the sealing capacity of mass transport deposits at the 7th International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences to be held in New Zealand this fall. Sebastian has recently performed fieldwork and collected samples in well-exposed outcrops of mass transport deposits (MTDs) on the western shore of New Zealand near Mokau, New Plymouth. He documented about 1 kilometer of exposure and collected nearly 50 samples to study the different styles of deformation and microfabrics within a single MTD. His research hopes to reveal styles of deformation in MTDs and how they transmit fluids in the subsurface to better predict their seal potential.
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