11 manager has prepared me to teach this course. Finally, in 2012, I was privileged to serve on the Masters Thesis Committees for: Mr. Alex Fitzgerald and Mr. John Gage (Spring 2012) as well as Mr. Malachi Lopez and Mr. Cody Bacon (Fall 2012). Priyank Jaiswal: Honestly, I do not know where 2012 went! It started with Samiya, an ExxonMobil sponsored student, trying to wind up her two publications and it ended with Fathiya, another ExxonMobil sponsored student, getting ready to defend. In between the two girls came Bertha (50K seismic thumper donated by US Alliance), my accidentally getting fired by OSU because of last name confusion (I got rehired though), start of the Rediscovering Oklahoma (Red OK) project with Gary Stewart and Bob Springman, the 300K DOE grant to study hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippian Consortium, three journal papers, three conference abstract, two new PhDs, three new MSs, and the Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Award. The computational seismology lab keeps growing but surprising we feel we are always behind. Petrel and Decision Space upgraded their software and automatically downgraded our infrastructure. Landmark moved to a new Java interface. Hampson Russell has new algorithms. If these were not enough Khemraj wants to get into 3D3C, Pouyan wants to stress test every carbonate sample in the Mid-Continent, Iftekhar wants to do shear-wave tomography, Brandy wants to learn Move, Jason wants to analyze fractures with Lidar, and Brooke is getting ready to invert surface waves. Brooke is from Kansas. The surface wave package was developed at the Kansas Geological Survey. She feels she is connected to surface waves at a metaphysical level. We will see…Meanwhile, let us just pray that Ganesh, the MS student from computer science system who got roped into system administration, maintains his sanity through all this. I do not know why but I feel like a hamster on the wheel. Bertha a seismic thumper donated to the BPSG by US Alliance. Daniel A. Laó Dávila: Another year has passed. Last year I taught Geology and Human Affairs to 250 students, Structural Geology to 24 students and Advanced Structural Geology to 6 graduate students. Last March I traveled to Vienna, Austria to present a talk titled "Collisional zones in Puerto Rico " at the European Geosciences Union. I also participated in the NSF sponsored GeoPRISMS East African Rift Planning Workshop in Morristown, New Jersey and gave an invited presentation at the University of Oklahoma. My research group is very active. The paper "Cretaceous-Paleogene thrust emplacement of serpentinite in southwestern Puerto Rico" was published in the GSA Bulletin. Two abstracts were accepted for presentation at the GSA-Southeastern Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Erin Roehrig (M.S. student) continues to make tremendous progress. She has presented her research of fracture formation and propagation at the AGU Annual Meeting in San Francisco, and at the AAPG Student Expo in Houston. She is scheduled to finish her degree in the summer and has accepted an offer to work for Marathon. Estella Atekwana, Mohamed Abdelsalam, and I, along with graduate students, have formed the Tectonics and Geophysics Group, which meets biweekly to discuss recent research. Feel free to join and participate! Jack Pashin: As the latest addition to the faculty of the Boone Pickens School of Geology, I would like to thank everybody for making my move to Stillwater and transition into academia a memorable and enjoyable experience. The move was quite entertaining, considering that our possessions were packed into a whopping 370 boxes and filled all but 4 feet of a 70-foot moving van. My wife Janyth and I hope to finish unpacking sometime before the end of 2019. My research focuses on a wide range of topics in sedimentary geology, structural geology, tectonics, energy resources, and energy technology. For the past 24 years I worked at the Geological Survey of Alabama, where I led the energy research program and served as an Associate Director. Throughout my career I have been driven by opportunities to involve students and staff in innovative research programs focusing on emerging energy resource plays and technologies. In January I began a new career as Professor and Devon Petroleum Corporation Chair of Basin Research in the Boone Pickens School of Geology. This semester I am teaching Basin Evolution, and next semester I will teach a course on Unconventional Petroleum Reservoirs. The students here at OSU are fantastic, and I’m pleased to be off to a running start. Schlumberger has kindly donated 27 seats of PetroMod software to the School of Geology in support of the Basin Evolution class. This is a wonderful development because the School now has robust 1-D, 2D, and 3-D basin modeling and petroleum system modeling capabilities. The software, moreover, integrates with the Petrel software that is already deployed in the department.
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