Sed Systems Research group at AAPG 2015

aapgNext week is the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in Denver, CO. Sedimentary geology plays an important role in AAPG so there will be a strong contingent of the Sedimentary Systems Research group there presenting our latest research. As you’ll see below, the majority of our presentations are updates on the multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional Chile Slope Systems project, which had an incredibly productive past year.

[Unfortunately, I can’t link to static pages of each abstract — they have one of these systems where you have to log in and create an itinerary and all that. The entire technical program is here.]

Monday, June 1st:

  • Steve Hubbard (Univ of Calgary) is presenting a poster (Brian Romans is a collaborator and co-author) in the SEPM Research Symposium Channels: From Geomorphic Expression to Stratigraphic Record with a poster titled “How many turbidity currents pass through a submarine channel and what is their stratigraphic expression?” I know you want to know the answer to that question.
    • when: 8:30am-5:00pm
    • where: Exhibition Hall

Tuesday, June 2nd:

  • Brian Romans is co-chairing the first of two oral sessions as part of the SEPM Research Symposium Channels: From Geomorphic Expression to Stratigraphic Record, which will include talks from Mike Blum, John Holbrook, Kyle Straub, and many more. (And make sure to check out the second oral session later that afternoon.)
    • when: 8am-11:50am
    • where: Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  • Casey Meirovitz (Univ of Utah) is presenting poster (Brian Romans is a co-author) in session ACE 13 titled “Quantifying inter- and intra-channel architecture controls on reservoir performance in a deep-water slope channel system, Tres Pasos Formation, Magallanes Basin”
    • when: 8:30am-5:00pm
    • where: Exhibition Hall
  • Ph.D. candidate Cody Mason is presenting poster in session ACE 04 titled “Quantifying sediment supply in stratigraphy using cosmogenic nuclides: Insights from the Pleasant Canyon complex, Panamint Mountains, California”
    • when: 8:30am-5:00pm
    • where: Exhibition Hall
  • Jake Covault (Chevron) is giving a talk (Brian Romans is a collaborator and co-author) in the SEPM Research Symposium Channels: From Geomorphic Expression to Stratigraphic Record with a poster titled “Geomorphic and stratigraphic records of the composite evolution of submarine channels”
    • when: 2:20-2:40pm
    • where: Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  • Ph.D. candidate Neal Auchter is giving a talk in session ACE 04 titled “Outcrop example of intrastratal slope deformation controlled by depositional architecture, Tres Pasos Formation, Magallanes Basin, Chile”
    • when: 4:45-5:05pm [last talk of the day, stick around for it!]
    • where: Room 605/607

Wednesday, June 3rd:

  • Allie Jackson (Univ of Utah) is giving a talk (Brian Romans is a co-author) in session ACE 04 titled “Characterizing static reservoir connectivity of deepwater slope deposits using sub-seismic outcrop-based facies models, Tres Pasos Formation, Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia”
    • when: 8:45-9:05am
    • where: Room 501/502/503
  • Lisa Stright (Univ of Utah) is giving a talk (Brian Romans is a co-author) in session ACE 04 titled “Optimizing the preservation of deepwater intra-channel architecture and model connectivity during upscaling, Tres Pasos Formation, Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia”
    • when: 10:30-10:50am
    • where: Room 501/502/503
  • Sarah Jancuska is presenting a poster in session ACE 00 titled “Stratigraphic expression of the transition from basin plain to slope sedimentation in outcropping strata of the Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia”
    • when: 8:30am-noon
    • where: Exhibition Hall
  • Daniel Niquet (Univ of Calgary) is presenting poster (Brian Romans is a co-author) in session ACE 04 titled “The orientation of sandstone-filled U-shaped trace fossils as indicators of deepwater channel axis position, Tres Pasos Formation, Chile”
    • when: 8:30am-noon
    • where: Exhibition Hall
  • Ben Daniels (Univ of Calgary) is presenting poster (Brian Romans and Neal Auchter are co-authors) in session ACE 04 titled “Constructing a seismic-scale 3-D geo-model of stacked slope channel deposits grounded in high-resolution outcrop observations, Magallanes Basin, Chile”
    • when: 8:30am-noon
    • where: Exhibition Hall