Los Angeles Basin Geological Society

Schedule of Events

 

Please click on the year below to view the corresponding speaker list

 

 2001 - 2002 Speaker Schedule

 

 2002 - 2003 Speaker Schedule

 

 2003 - 2004 Speaker Schedule

 

 2004 - 2005 Speaker Schedule

 

2006 Speaker Schedule

 

2007 Speaker Schedule

 

 

2001- 2002 Speaker Schedule – Luncheon Meetings

 

 

 

September 26, 2001

Dr. Ken Hudnut – Studying Earthquakes Using GPS and Other Emerging Technologies

 

October 18, 2001

Henk Wories – Life as an International Geologist

 

November 15, 2001

Mike Mills: Near surface faults related to urbanization of local oil fields

 

December , 2001

No Meeting – Merry Christmas

 

January 24, 2002 (4th Thursday)

Dr. Lewis Owen:  Holocene slip rates along the Owens Valley fault, California: Implications for the recent evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone.

 

February 28, 2002 (4th Thursday)

Dr. Cathy Busby: Tectonics of strike-slip interarc basins.

 

March 28, 2002 (4th Thursday)

Dr. Rick Behl:  Fractured Cherts of Costal CA

 

April 17, 2002 (3rd Wednesday)

Dr. James Kennett:  Global Climate Change

 

May 30, 2002 (5th Thursday)

Dr. Eugene Fritsche: K/T boundary impact breccia from the Chixulub impact crater

 

June 26, 2003

Ben Kneller - Turbidites Exposed in the Cliffs at San Clemente

 

July & August

No Meetings – Summer Field Season

 

 

2002 Field Trip Schedule

  

None

 

 

Los Angeles Basin Geological Society

Schedule of Events

 

 

2002- 2003 Speaker Schedule – Luncheon Meetings

 

 

 

September 26, 2002

Dr. Ken Hudnut – Studying Earthquakes Using GPS and Other Emerging Technologies

 

October 24, 2002

Eldon Gath – Studying Earthquakes Using GPS and Other Emerging Technologies

 

 

November 21, 2002

Mark Legg – New surprises in the offshore California Borderland

 

December, 2002

No Meeting – Merry Christmas

 

January 23, 2003

Mark Legg – New surprises in the offshore California Borderland

 

February 27, 2003

Bjorn Paulsson / Karen Blake – Imaging the Wilmington Oil Field Structure

 

March 27, 2003

Dr. Azzam Alwash –Saddam Hussein’s Draining of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers for Strategic Reasons and What’s Involved in Future Restoration of its Marshes

 

April 24, 2003

Jose Borrero – Tsunami Potential and Risk Along the Southern California Coast

 

May 21 - 23, 2003

PSAAPG / WRSPE Combined Meeting in Long Beach.  Over 110 Geoscience presentations– Hosted by the LABGS

 

June 26, 2003

Don Clarke - Oil Exploration and Production in an Urban Environment

 

July & August

No Meetings – Summer Field Season

 

 

2003 Field Trip Schedule

  

May 21 - 23, 2003

PSAAPG / WRSPE Combined Meeting in Long Beach.  Turbities and urban oil fields along the Newport Inglewood Trend– Hosted by the LABGS

 

 

Los Angeles Basin Geological Society

Schedule of Events

 

 

2003 - 2004 Speaker Schedule – Luncheon Meetings

 

 

 

September 25, 2003 – Kim Bishop - CSULA

Mega-Landslides and Tectonic Interpretations: Examples from S. Cal

 

October 23, 2003 - Shari Christofferson – Leighton and Assoc.

Determination of Paleo-earthquakes, Slip Per Event Data, and a Holocene Slip Rate for the Puente Hills Blind-Thrust Fault, Los Angeles, CA.

 

November 20, 2003 (3rd Thursday of Month) – Linda Bonnell – AAPG Distinguished Lecturer

Reservoir Quality Prediction in Deep Water to Tight Gas Sandstones using a Process / Stochastic Modeling Approach

 

December 25, 2003

No Meeting – Merry Christmas

 

January 22, 2004 – Ed Marks – Marks and Assoc.

Bio-Steering into the Monterey Formation

 

February 26, 2004 – Dr. Robert Crippen - NASA

Space Shuttle Radar Topography and it’s Application A 3D presentation

 

March 25, 2004 – Mike Mulhern – City of Los Angeles

Avoiding Geologic Hazards in Los Angeles’ Largest Tunneling Project

 

April 22, 2004 – Ivan Colburn - CSULA

The role of Antecedent Rivers in the LA Basin

 

May 27, 2004 – Laura Rademacher – CSULA

What do Geology, Streams, and Groundwater in Southern California Have in Common?

 

June 24, 2004 – Dick Brown - Consultant

Geology of the Palos Verdes Peninsula

 

July & August 2004

No Meetings – Summer Field Season

 

September 23, 2004 – Dr. David Mayo - CSULA

In the Roots of a Miocene Volcano, SE California

 

October 28, 2004 – Art Green – AAPG Distinguished Lecturer

Dynamics of the Sun/Earth Climate System

 

November 18, 2004 - Don Clarke – City of Long Beach Oil Properties

Faults  in the Willmngton Oil Field

 

December 23, 2004

No Meeting – Merry Christmas

 

 

 

 

2004 - 2005 Speaker Schedule – Luncheon Meetings

 

 

 

 

January 22, 2004 – Ed Marks – Marks and Assoc.

Bio-Steering into the Monterey Formation

 

February 26, 2004 – Dr. Robert Crippen - NASA

Space Shuttle Radar Topography and it’s Application A 3D presentation

 

March 25, 2004 – Mike Mulhern – City of Los Angeles

Avoiding Geologic Hazards in Los Angeles’ Largest Tunneling Project

 

April 22, 2004 – Ivan Colburn - CSULA

The role of Antecedent Rivers in the LA Basin

 

May 27, 2004 – Laura Rademacher – CSULA

What do Geology, Streams, and Groundwater in Southern California Have in Common?

 

June 24, 2004 – Dick Brown - Consultant

Geology of the Palos Verdes Peninsula

 

July & August 2004

No Meetings – Summer Field Season

 

September 23, 2004 – Dr. David Mayo - CSULA

In the Roots of a Miocene Volcano, SE California

 

October 28, 2004 – Art Green – AAPG Distinguished Lecturer

Dynamics of the Sun/Earth Climate System

 

November 18, 2004 - Don Clarke – City of Long Beach Oil Properties

Faults  in the Willmngton Oil Field

 

December 23, 2004

No Meeting – Merry Christmas

 

January 27, 2005 – Stephen Jacobs, Consulting Geologist

The Pleistocene of the Palos Verdes Peninsula

 

February 24, 2005 – Mark Legg, Legg Geophysical

Tsunami Hazards From Strike-Slip Earthquakes and the South Coast Threat

 

March 24, 2005 – Hilario Camacho, Signal Hill Petroleum, Inc.

Evidence for Generation and Migration of Hydrocarbon along Thermally Anomalous Faults in the Los Angeles Basin

 

April 28, 2005 – Jim Mears, San Diego County Office of Education

Teaching Earth Science through the “Micro Lab” - Using the Nature’s Laboratory

 

May 26, 2005 – Jim Dolan, USC Department of Earth Sciences

Holocene faulting in the Los Angeles region

 

June 23, 2005 – Woodrow Higdon – Geo-Tech Imagery International

Bluebird Canyon Landslides: Past, Present and Future

 

July & August 2005

No Meetings – Summer Field Season

 

September 23, 2005 – Colleen Barton, GeoMechanics Intl.

Geomechanics Applied to Reservoir Fracture Permeability and Fault Trap Integrity.

 

October 27, 2005 – Don Fife

Lucerne Valley Limestone Province, San Bernardino Mountains, California.

 

November 17, 2005 – George Copenhaver

History and Geology of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway.

 

December 22, 2005

No Meeting – Merry Christmas

 

 

 

 

2006 Speakers

 

January 26, 2006 – Bob Davis

Identification & Characterization of Faults & Folds Using Borehole Electrical Images

 

February 23, 2006 – Mike Hart

Geology of Some Hard Rock Landslides

 

March 23, 2006 – Lee Gerhard

Geological Aspect of Global Climate Change

 

April 27, 2006 – Boris Zaprianoff

The Geology of the Black Sea, the Biblical Flood, and the Ancient Myths

 

May 25, 2006 – Susan Hough

Putting Seismology on the Map in Southern California: The Early Days of Earthquake Exploration

 

June 22, 2006 – Dick Brown

Tom Dibblee - Field Geology's Grand Master

 

July & August 2006

No Meetings – Summer Field Season

 

September 28, 2006 – Mike Clark

Using Sequence Stratigraphy to Characterize and Manage a Mature Diatomite Reservoir at Lost Hills Field, California

 

October 26, 2006 – Robert Mellors

Tectonics of the Imperial Valley

 

November 16, 2006 – Kevin Grazier

The Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan

 

 

2007 Speakers

 

January 25, 2007 – Nancy Beresky

Basic Geology Used to Create Approaches Considered "Innovative" in Environmental Remediation

 

February 22, 2007 – Gene Fristche

The Santa Monica Mt Volcanics

 

March 22, 2007 – AAPG Distinguished Lecture Dr. Jacob Lowenstern

The Yellowstone Caldera

 

April 26, 2007 – Kristin Hepper of UC - Riverside

Paleoecological Analysis of New Great Valley Group Hydrocarbon Seep Localities

 

May 24, 2007 – David K. Lynch

Traveling the San Andreas Fault - from Los Angeles to San Francisco

 

September 27, 2007 – Nate Onderdonk of CSULB

What makes southern California spin?  A look at rotational tectonics along the San Anreas plate boundary

 

October 25, 2007 – Schlumberger

on their PeriscopeTM drilling technology

 

November 2007 – No Meeting

 

December 2007 – No Meeting