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FALL 2007 VAN TUYL LECTURE SERIES

THURSDAYS 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

BERTHOUD HALL ROOM 241

August 30 John W. Rold, Emeritus Director, Colorado Geological Survey
"Success factors for geologists, What you don’t learn in the Departments"
September 6 No Lecture
September 13 Lecture Cancelled
September 20 Charles Paull, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
"Monitoring on-going sediment transport activity in Monterey Canyon, Tracking sediments as the move from the shoreline to the deep-sea fan"
September 27 Roger M. Slatt, University of Oklahoma
"Application of outcrops to oil and gas exploration and production"
October 4 David Jennette
"Making Sense of Turbidite reservoirs: A Multi-basin Perspective on What Drives Reservoir Architecture and Rock Properties. Apache Corporation"
October 11 Cathy Farmer, BP
"Structural and Sedimentological Evolution of the Ultra-Deep Gas Play Fairway-Gulf of Mexico Shelf, Texas and Louisiana"
October 18 James J. Butler, Jr, Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas Darcy Lecturer
"What the Heck is a Phreatophyte? A Field Investigation of Ecohydrologic Processes in Stream-Aquifer Systems"
October 25 Irina Overeem INSTAAR, CU-Boulder
Title TBA
November 1 Richard Goldfarb, SEG President, USGS Denver
Title TBA
November 8 Jeremy (Jez) Lofts, Baker Hughes
Joint Lecture Heiland and Van Tuyl
"Correlation and Sedimentary Steering to maximize well placement certainty in mature reservoirs while drilling"
November 15 Andrea Fildani, Chevron.
Orogenesis of the Patagonian Andes as reflected by basin evolution in southernmost South America
November 22 Thanksgiving, No Lecture
November 29 Donna Anderson
"Lava, cactus, penguins & Darwin: A geologist loose in the Galapagos "
Refreshments served prior to each lecture.

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