Past Speakers
LABGS Lunch Meetings

 

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2024 Speakers -

January 25, 2024 - Dave Larue, Retired
Fluvial reservoir architecture, directional heterogeneity and continuity, recognizing incised valley fills, and the case for nodal avulsion on a distributive fluvial system: Kern River field, Kern County, California


2023 Speakers -

October 26, 2023 - Joshua Kelly, CSU Los Angeles
A Satellite’s Perspective of Shifting Sand and Ice

September 28, 2023 - Richard Behl, CSU Long Beach
Geology of the Failed-Rift Barmer Basin, Rajasthan, and the Opportunity to Travel Through India

August 2023 - No Speaker this Month

July 2023 - No Speaker this Month

June 2023 - No Speaker this Month

May, 2023 - Bedig Charkhutian, CSU Long Beach
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Petrography of the Siliceous Lithofacies in the Upper Modelo Turbidite System, Eastern Ventura Basin, Southern Lake Piru, California

April 27, 2023 - Kenton Crabtree, CSU Long Beach
Influence of Tectonics, Burial History, and Sediment Composition on the Temperature and Depth of Diagenetic Transition from Opal-A to Opal-CT in the Subsurface San Joaquin Basin
 
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Justin Arakaki, CSU Long Beach
Formational-Scale Differences in Styles of Deformation and Implications for Petroleum Migration and the Structural Evolution of the Pismo Basin

March, 2023 - Paul Alessio, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, et al.
A Source to Sink Understanding of Sediment Transport in Southern California: Landslides, Beaches, Coastal Cliffs, and Organic Carbon Jargon

Febuary, 2023 - Dan M. Gish and Steve Boljen, 3D Seismic Solutions
Tectonic Evaluation of Seal Beach Anticline Using Modern 3D Seismic

January 26, 2023 - Daniel C. Steward, Amplify Energy Corp.
The Exploration and Development History of the Montebello Oil Field: triumphs, tribulations, and challenges in an urban oil field


2022 Speakers -

December 2022 - No Speaker this Month

November 2022 - No Speaker this Month

October 2022 -

September 22, 2022 - Mark Legg, Legg Geophysical
Potential for Large Complex Multi-Fault Earthquakes Offshore Southern California
by M. Legg, C. Sorlien, C. Nicholson, M. Kamerling, and G. Kuhn

August 2022 - No Speaker this Month

July 2022 - No Speaker this Month

June 23, 2022 - Timothy Gross, California Resources Corporation
Carbon TerraVault: An Overview of CRC’s Carbon Management Business

May 2022 - No Speaker this Month

April 28, 2022 - Patrick Hayes, Tracerco
EOR and CCS Tracer Applications: Measuring the present to prepare for the future

March 24, 2022 - Thomas L. Davis PhD and Badrul Imam PhD
Natural Gas – Underexplored in Bangladesh? Increasing demand and decreasing supply with new comments on energy poverty and the energy transition

February 24, 2022 - John Oswald, Sr. Engineering Geologist, Cal. Geol. Survey
Post-wildfire geologic hazard assessment of the 2021 Bond Fire and hillslope response to significant storms during year-one of the burn scar recovery

January 27, 2022 - Daniel C. Steward, Amplify Energy Corp.
The Exploration History and Remaining Potential of the Los Angeles Basin


2021 Speakers -

December, 2021 - No Speaker this Month

November, 2021 - No Speaker this Month

October 28, 2021 - Scott Prior, Retired
The Demontian (upper Miocene) Sandstone Play in the Northern Los Angeles Basin

September 23, 2021 - Fred B. Poland, LMK Resources
Playing the Knox Unconformity Reconnaissance and High Grading Prospects in Holmes County, Ohio

August, 2021 - No Speaker this Month

July 22, 2021 - Dr. John Wakabayashi, Cal State U. Fresno
Localization of Subduction and Exhumation Slip: Obervations that Sharply Contradict Numerical Model Results

June 24, 2021 - Eldon Gath, Earth Consultants International
Turning Hills into Mountains: How the collision of the Santa Ana Mountains and the Puente Hills dominate OC’s seismic hazard (Online Zoom Meeting)

May, 2021 - No meeting due to technical difficulties

April 22, 2021 - Dr. Glenn Sharman, University of Arkansas
Rivers of Sand: Sea Level Control on Sediment Dispersal and Provenance Since the Last Glacial Maximum, Southern California (Online Zoom Meeting)

March 25, 2021 - Rick Behl and the 2020 CSULB summer field class
Professor and Geology Dept. Chair, CSULB
Multiple Phases and Styles of Deformation in the Monterey Formation, Crystal Cove to Newport Beach, California (Online Zoom Meeting)

February 25, 2021 - Dennis Schmude
Understanding of Reef Growth Patterns of the Michigan Basin (Online Zoom Meeting)

January 28, 2021 - Lester Zitkus, AAPL President
Update on the American Association of Professional Landmen (Online Zoom Meeting)


2020 Speakers -

October, 2020 - No meeting due to the covid-19 pandemic

September, 2020 - No meeting due to the covid-19 pandemic

August 27, 2020 - Deborah Olson, PayZone Inc.
Part 2. Water Wells Logs and Water Well Applications for Aquifers (Online Zoom Meeting)

July 23, 2020 - Thomas Howard, PayZone Inc.
Part 1. Introduction to Well Logs, Log Analysis and Petrophsics (Online Zoom Meeting)

June 25, 2020 - Mark Legg, Legg Geophysical, Inc.
Wilmington Structure, Long Beach, CA: Strike-Slip Restraining Bend Popup or Blind Thrust Anticline?

May, 2020 - No meeting due to the covid-19 pandemic

April, 2020 - No meeting due to the covid-19 pandemic

March 26, 2020 - Mark Legg, Legg Geophysical, Inc.
Wilmington Structure, Long Beach, CA: Strike-Slip Restraining Bend Popup or Blind Thrust Anticline?
Meeting rescheduled to June

February 27, 2020 - Mackenzie Day, Assistant Professor, UCLA
Wind and Aeolian Sandstones on Mars

January 23, 2020 - Eric Campbell, President. LA Seismic, LLC
A Seismic Hazard Survey of the Los Angeles Basin


2019 Speakers -

January 24th, 2019 - Eric Campbell, President. LA Seismic, LLC
ACQUISITION AND USE OF SEISMIC DATA ACQUIRED ALONG THE NEWPORT-INGLEWOOD FAULT IN THE SEAL BEACH / LONG BEACH REGION

February 28th, 2019 - George Morgan Geologist
WHAT IS NEW IN THE COYOTE MOUNTAINS?

March 28th, 2019 - Matthew Kirby, PhD Professor, Cal State Fullerton
LATE QUATERNARY PALEOCLIMATOLOGY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

April 25th, 2019 - Ian McGregor Master's Degree Candidate, Cal State Long Beach
RATE AND CHARACTER OF LATE QUATERNARY UPLIFT AND FOLDING IN THE SANTA MARIA BASIN, CALIFORNIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ACTIVE FAULTING

May 23rd, 2019 - Erik Van Dusen Staff Geologist, California Resource Corporation
BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO OLD OIL FIELDS

June 27th, 2019 - Dr. Joe Carlin Assistant Professor, Cal State Fullerton
CONTINENTAL SHELF SEDIMENTATION OVER A VARIETY OF GEOLOGICALLY SHORT TIME SCALES

September 26th, 2019 - Dr. Sean Loyd Associate Professor, Cal State Fullerton
CARBONATE CONCRETION FORMATION THROUGH TIME

October 24th, 2019 - Dr. David Larue Professor
FLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE AND 4D SATURATION MODELING OF A STEAMFLOOD: KERN RIVER FIELD, CALIFORNIA

 


2018 Speakers -

January 25th, 2018 -- Wenli Want, Senior Geomechanics Engineer/Vice President, GeoMechanics Technologies
IDENTIFYING HYDRAULIC GRACTURE GRADIENT FOR DEPLETED FIELDS, COMMON IN LOS ANGELES BASIN

February 22th, 2018 -- Jayne Bormann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, CSU Long Beach
HAZARDS FROM THE SEA: ASSESSING EVIDENCE OF FAULT SYSTEM CONNECTIVITY AND POTENTIAL RUPTURE
SCENARIOS FOR THE SAN DIEGO TROUGH AND SAN PEDRO BASIN FAULT SYSTEMS

March 22th, 2018 -- Eldon Gath, President, Earth Consultants International
ACTIVE FAULTING AND BEVERLY HILLS HIGH SCHOOL: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY INTO GEO-ETHICS

April 26th, 2018 -- Benjamin Hagedorn, PhD Assistant Professor, California State University Long Beach
STRESSED WATERSHEDS OF THE US SOUTHWEST: RESULTS FROM BASELINE HYDROLOGIC STUDIES OF CATALINA ISLAND AND THE SOUTH COAST RANGE

May 24th, 2018 -- Sherilyn Williams-Stroud, PhD, President/CEO, Confractus, Inc.
A GEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SEISMICITY b-VALUES: IMPLICATIONS FOR HAZARD ASSESSMENT

June 28th, 2018 -- Thomas L. Davis, Ph.D., Consulting Geologist
FAULT DISPLACEMENT HAZARDS AT ALISO CANYON AND HONOR RANCHO NATURAL GAS STORAGE FIELDS

September 27, 2018 -- Weixing Tong, PhD, PG, CEG, CHG., LARWQCB
INTRODUCTION TO THE LOS ANGELES REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD'S OIL AND GAS -- WATER QUALITY PROGRAM

 


2017 Speakers -

January 26th, 2017 -- Katherine (Katie) Kovac, Jonah Energy
THE JONAH GAS FIELD, SUBLETTE COUNTY, WYOMING: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

February 23rd, 2017 -- Raymond (Ray) Ingersoll, UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN RECONSTRUCTING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

March 23rd, 2017 -- Robert D. (Dan) Francis, Ph.D., CSULB Professor of Geology, Director of Los Angeles Basin Subsurface Data Center, and past Department of Geological Sciences Chair
"BLACK GOLD IN CALIFORNIA: THE STORY OF THE CALIFORNIA PATROELUM INDUSTRY"

April 27th, 2017 -- Austin Hendy, Ph.D., Paleontologist, Los Angeles Natural History Museum
"PALEOTOLOGY AND THE PANAMA CANAL: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE WHILE PRESERVING THE PAST AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM"

May 25th, 2017 -- Joann Stock, Ph.d., Professor of Geology and Geophysics California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
THE SOUTHERN END OF THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT: ACTIVE TECTONICS, BURIED BASINS, AND MAGMATISM

June 22nd, 2017 --Bill Bartling, Dept. of Conservation, DOGGR Department of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources -- Organizational Renewal Plan and Update on Regulatory Progress and Impacts

July - Break for summer

September 21st, 2017 --W. Richard Laton, Ph.D., PG, CHG, CPG, Associate Professor of Hydrogeology, California State University, Fullerton
LOW ALTITUDE PHOTOGRAPHY UTILIZING UAVs: GEOLOGIC AND HYDROLOGIC APPLICATIONS

October 26th, 2017 --Eldon Gath, President, Earth Consultants International
THE SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS: INDENTER TECTONICS AND THE EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS OF "THE OC"

 


2016 Speakers -

January 28th, 2016 -- Donald Prothero, Ph.D.
Evolutionary Non-Response to Climate Change in Rancho La Brea Mammals and Birds

February 25th, 2016 -- Dr. Stanley C. Finney, Chairman - California State University of Long Beach
The "Anthropocene" Epoch: Scientific Decision or Political Statement?

March 24th, 2016 -- James R. Boles, Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Barbara Department of Earth Science
Fault-Related Mantle Helium, Los Angeles Basin, California

April 28th, 2016 -- Robert W. Clayton, PHD., Professor of Geophysics, California Institute of Technology
Structure of the Los Angeles Basin Revealed by Dense Seismic Surveys

May 26th, 2016 -- Elizabeth Cochran, PHD., U.S. Geological Survey
Making Earthquakes: The Unprecedented increase in Earthquakes in Oklahoma

September 22th, 2016 -- Alyssa Beach, John D. Cooper Paleontological and Archeological Center Volunteer
A Paleodepositional Reconstruction of Middle Miocene Topanga Formation Cetacean Bonebeds, Northern San Joaquin Hills, Orange County, CA

October 27th, 2016 -- Chris Castillo, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geophysics, Stanfornd University
Quaternary Subsidence of Santa Catalina Island from Submerged Paleoshorlelines

 


2015 Speakers -

January 22nd, 2015 -- Prof. Donald L. Paul, University of Southern California
Understanding the Energy System: Past, Present, and Future

March 26th, 2015 -- Jay Namson, Namson Consulting Inc., San Clemente, CA
Fold and Thrust Belt Structural Style of the Southern Coast Ranges and Western Transverse Ranges, California

April 23rd, 2015 -- Matthew Becker Professor of Geological Sciences in Hydrgeology at California State University, Long Beach
Enhanced Geothermal Systems

May 28th, 2015 -- John Jepson1 & Kimberley A. Holtz2 Senior Geologist1 and Petroleum Operation Coordinator2 , City of Long Beach Gas & Oil Dept.
The Wilmington Oil Field: Subsidence and Elevation Monitoring

September 24th, 2015 -- Susan Hough, Ph.D. Research Geophysicist, US Geological Survey Pasadena, California
What's Shaking LA? New Insight from the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake

October 22nd, 2015 -- Donald L. Gautier, Ph.D. Consulting Petroleum Geologist
Petroleum Potential of the Richest Oil Basin: The Los Angeles Basin

 


2014 Speakers -

January 23, 2014 -- Edward Renwick, (Joint meeting with LAAPL)
Oil history from the perspective of a landman

February 27, 2014 -- Mike S. Clark, Consulting Petroleum Geologist with San Joaquin Geological Services, Inc., Bakersfield
Tectonics and Sedimentation of the Ranger Sandstone, Wilmington Field, los Angeles Basin, California

March 27, 2014 -- Dr. Robert Anderson, Group Supervisor of Geophysics and Planetary Geosciences, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California
Unraveling the Geologic History of Mars

April 24, 2014 -- No meeting in April. We encourage your attendance at the annual PSAAPG convention

May 22, 2014 -- Glenn Sharman, Ph.D Candidate at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Late Cretaceous-Eocene California Forearc: Implications for Margin Tectonism, Paleogeography, and the Offset History of the San Andreas Fault

June 26, 2014 -- Don Clarke, Professor USC, Consulting Geologist
Hydraulic Fracturing and Earthquakes: Ethically, How Do We Move Forward and Do the Right Thing?

September 25, 2014 -- Dr. Richard Behl, Professor CSULB, Director, MARS Project: Monterey and Related Sediments
The Role of Climate, Oceanography, Tectonics and Environment in Mudstone Deposition on the Miocene to Quaternary California Margin

October 23, 2014 -- Dr. James (jim) Boles , Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Barbara
Modern oil generation and pyrolysis at >800°C from spontaneous combustion in a landline of Miocene shale, California

 


2013 Speakers -

January 24, 2013 -- Ted Johnson, Chief Hydrogeologist, Water Replenishment District of Southern California
Hydraulic Fracturing and Groundwater: A Perspective from an LA Water District

February 28, 2013 -- Robert Bridges, Vintage Production California LLC
Re-discovering Calfiornia: The Gunslinger Discovery, New Concepts for Mature Producing Areas

March 28, 2013 -- Jean B. Kulla, PG; Consultant, K2 E&E
The Application of Source Rock Geology & Petrophysics to Unconventional Shale Reservoirs

April 25, 2013 -- No meeting - Conflict with the PSAAPG Convention

May 23, 2013 -- Matt Becker, California State University of Long Beach
Fluid flow in fractured formations: implications for groundwater contamination, geothermal energy, and enhanced oil recovery

September 26, 2013 -- Tandre Williams, Reservoir Navigation Engineer Baker hughes / Western U.S./INTEQ
Application of Azimuthally Sensitive Resistivity in Conventional Reservoirs in California

October 24, 2013 -- Steve Grayson, Sales Development Engineer Schlumberger - Ventura
Advanced Monterey Evaluation and Dielectric Mobility Quicklook

November - December 2013 No Meeting

 


2012 Speakers -

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

 


2011 Speakers -

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

 


2010 Speakers -

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

 


2009 Speakers -

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.
GORE Exploration Survey - A Powerful Risk Reduction Method for Oil and Gas Exploration

 


2008 Speakers -

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

 


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

 


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

 


2005 Speakers -

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

 


2004 Speakers -

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

 


2003 Speakers -

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

May 21 - 23, 2003
Field Trip: Turbities and urban oil fields along the Newport Inglewood Trend-- Hosted by the LABGS

June 26, 2003
Don Clarke - Oil Exploration and Production in an Urban Environment

July & August
No Meetings -- Summer Field Season

September 25, 2003 -- Kim Bishop - CSULA
Mega-Landslides and Tectonic Interpretations: Examples from S. Calv

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

 


2002 Speakers -

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, 2002
Ben Kneller - Turbidites Exposed in the Cliffs at San Clemente

July & August
No Meetings -- Summer Field Season

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

 


2001 Speakers

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