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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
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 Husseins Draining of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers for Strategic Reasons and Whats 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
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 its 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 its 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 Natures 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
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
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
January 24, 2008 Azzam Alwash
Restoration of the Tigris and Euphrates marshes in Iraq, and other topics. Joint meeting with Los Angeles Association of Petroleum Landmen.
February 28, 2008 - Gregory Holk of CSULB
Stable Isotopic clues to Fluid Pathways in Major Crustal-Scale Fault Zones
March 27, 2008 - Kenneth Peters of the USGS
Families of Monterey Crude Oil, Seep Oil, and Tarballs in Coastal California
April 24, 2008 - Joan Stock of CalTech
Plate Tectonics and related Boundaries
May 22, 2008 - Rick Behl of CSULB
Sailing through Underseas Fold and Thrust Belts for Fun and Science
September 25, 2008 - Dr. Hilario Camacho of Signal Hill Petroleum
Application of Outcrop Data to Seismic Modeling and Interpretation Of Seismic Back to Outcrop and Back Again
October 30, 2008 - Dr. Chip Feazel of ConocoPhillips
*AAPG DISTINGUISHED LECTURER!!!!
North Sea Chalk: 40 Years of Production at Ekofisk Field from a Rock Some Said Would Never Flow Oil
January 22, 2009 Scott Hector (PSAAPG President-Elect)
California Exploration, 1998-2008 - 10 years of oil and natural gas exploratory drilling in California
February 26, 2009 Dan Pignatiello (Halliburton)
Understanding Downhole Geology: Borehole Image Logs Vs. The Ground Truth
March 26, 2009 Joe Lovenitti (AltaRock)
An Engineered Geothermal System Demonstration Project
April 23, 2009 Mark Harrison (Prof of Geochemistry @ UCLA)
Probing the Dark Age: Clues to the first 500 million years of Earth history
May 28, 2009 Greg Hummel and Paul Hacker
The Geology of the Pacific Crest Trail
June - August 2009
No Meetings Summer Field Season
September 24, 2009 Dan Hollis (Seismic Imaging Solutions Company, LLC (SISCO))
A Recent 2D Seismic Program in the Long Beach/Signal Hill, CA Area - A Model for Urban Seismic Exploration
October 22, 2009 Andre' Brown and Alan Silliman of W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
GOREฎ Exploration Survey - A Powerful Risk Reduction Method for Oil and Gas Exploration
January 28, 2010 Bruce Hart of ConocoPhilips, Houston, Texas.
Reservoir - Scale Seismic Stratigraphy: A Call to Integration
February 25, 2010 Paul E. Blubargh, Shlumberger
A new Look for Your OLD Data
March 25, 2010 Bob Dams of Oil & Gas MDA Geospatial Service Inc.
Monitoring Land Surface Motion from Space
April 22, 2010 Eric Pounders, USGS
Latest earthquake studies in Southern California
May 27, 2010 - Canceled due to conflict with the Pacific Section AAPG meeting
June 24, 2010 TBA,
"Living Death Valley" a DVD by Bristlecone Media.
See clips at http://www.bristleconemedia.com/bcm-store.html
September 23, 2010 Vali Memeti, University of Southern California
Growth of a large Magma Chamber: An example from the Tuolumne Batholith, Sierra Nevada, CA
October 28, 2010 Rick Behl, California State University of Long Beach
The Miocene Monterey Formation of California: Primary and Diagenetic Variability
January 27, 2011 Donald L. Gautier, USGS
U.S. Geological Survey Assessment of Potential Reserve Growth in L.A. Basin
February 24, 2011 William Berelson, USC
TBA
March 24, 2011 Bob Toole, WSPA
Abundant, Reliable and Affordable Fuel in a Low Carbon World
April 28, 2011 Ray Ingersoll
Reconstructing Southern California
May 26, 2011 Rick Behl and Students, CSULB
Imperial Barrel Award project presentation
September 22, 2011 Nate Onderdonk, CSULB
Pre-historic earthquake history and slip-rate of the northern San Jacinto fault zone: Implications for seismic hazard estimates and rupture patterns in the Southern San Andreas fault system.
October 27, 2011 Arthur R (Dick) Brown, RG, CEG, and Stephen E. Jacobs, PG, CEG, Consultant Engineering Geologists
"Geologic Overview of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and " The Pleistocene of Palos Verdes Peninsula", respectively.
January 26, 2012 Rusty Riese, past VP of the National AAPG
Oil Spills, Ethics and Society: How they intersect and Where do the Responsibilities Reside
February 23, 2012 Thomas M. Howard, Image Log Analyst - PayZone Inc.
An Introduction to Well Logs, Log Analysis and Petrophysics
March 22, 2012 Mark R. Legg, President of Legg Geophysical
Tsunami Observation in Southern California: Catching the Wave!
April Cancelled - Due to Conflict With AAPG Convention
May 24, 2012 Mike Johnson
Balken Shale Discovery (Parshall Field, North Dakota)
July 26, 2012 Don Clarke, AAPG President-Elect Candidate
Discussion of the LA Basin Oil Fields
Summer Break
September 27, 2012 Donald R. Prothero, Natural History Museum of L.A. County
Magnetic Stratigraphy of the Pacific Coast Cenozoic
October 25, 2012 Robert (Dan) Francis, Chair of the Department of Geological Sciences, CSULB
The integrated San Pedro Basin fault - San Diego Trough fault system, offshore Southern California Inner Borderland.