SEPM Activities

SEPM Business Meeting/Luncheon

What Can We Learn from Sandboxes?

Date:

Tuesday, April 22

Time:

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Location:

Grand Hyatt Hotel

Fee:

$35

Take a look at highlights of several years of stratigraphic experiments and discuss why they might be applicable to the field with Dr. Chris Paola, currently a Professor in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Director of the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, an NSF Science and Technology Center.

SEPM President’s Reception and Awards Ceremony

Date:

Tuesday, April 22

Time:

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Location:

Grand Hyatt Hotel

SEPM President Mary Kraus invites you to an evening of celebration to honor the 2008 award winners of SEPM. The reception will begin at 7:00 p.m., with cocktails available at cash bars and substantial hors d'oeuvres. The awards ceremony will start at 7:30 p.m.

SEPM Research Group Meetings and Reception

Date:

Monday, April 21

Time:

7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Location:

Grand Hyatt Hotel

SEPM would like to invite anyone who is interested in research group activities to attend the SEPM Research Group Meetings. Individual Research Groups will meet on Monday, April 21 at the Grand Hyatt. Rooms will be announced later. Check the SEPM Web site (www.sepm.org) for updates.

AAPG/SEPM Student Reception

Date:

Monday, April 21

Time:

6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Location:

Grand Hyatt Hotel

SEPM would like to invite all students to attend the combined AAPG/SEPM Student Reception, sponsored by ExxonMobil. The reception will be held just prior to the SEPM Research Group meetings on Monday, April 21 at the Grand Hyatt. Students can enjoy food and drink and then go on to the SEPM Research Group topic of their choice to network and listen to the latest discussions.

SEPM Research Symposium

Paleoclimate: Implications for Stratigraphic Interpretation and Modern Climate Change

Date:

Monday, April 21

Time:

1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Location:

Room 213

Chairs:

H. R. Lane and M. Perlmutter

The geologic record provides us the only possible means to understand natural climate variability. This symposium is a two-part session that will discuss the impact of paleoclimate studies and the context and perspective for paleoclimate research.

SEPM Field Trips and Short Courses

Be sure to check out the great array of trips and courses. Students should be made especially aware of the courses Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students and 3-D Seismic Interpretation for Geologists, which have a large number of student seats sponsored by ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, respectively.

Courses:

• Seismic Expression of Structural Styles: A Modeling Approach
• Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students (Students)
• 3-D Seismic Interpretation for Geologists (Students)
• Core Workshop on Developing Models and Analogs for Isolated Carbonate Platforms – Holocene and Pleistocene Carbonates of Caicos Platform, British West Indies
• Siliciclastic Shelf Margins Revisited (with JSG)
• Sequence Stratigraphy for Professionals

Field Trips:

• Lower Cretaceous Carbonate Geology of the Edwards Plateau, San Antonio Area
• Central Belize Mixed Margin: Long-lived Isolated Carbonate Platforms versus Young Barrier Reef and Atolls
• Geo-environments of Mustang and North Padre Islands, Texas: Status, Trends and Environmental Management of a Barrier-Island System
• Barnett, Woodford and Related Mudrock Successions in Texas Cores and Outcrops (with JSG)
• Comanchean Carbonate Shelf Margin: Unconventional Play Concepts
• Carboniferous Mound Architecture within a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Virgilian Holder Formation and Mississippian Lake Valley Formation, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico (with JSG)