4 2013 RECOGNITION & AWARDS Mr. Rick Fritz, wins Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award. Pictured from left to right is Dr. Bret Danilowicz, Dean of Arts & Sciences, Mr. Rick Fritz and Dr. Estella Atekwana (Head of BPSoG). Dr Jim Puckette was awarded the Excellence in Advising Award. The award is being given by Dr. Shiretta Ownbey, Associate Dean, Academic Programs and Service, College of Human Science. OSU PhD student Khemraj Shukla paired with Brandon Lutz (University of Alabama) came in 3rd overall and 1st place in the US at the SEG 2013 Challenge Bowl. Congratulations Raj! Best Poster - Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, New Orleans. Asmus, J.J. and G.M. Grammer, (2013), Characterization of Deep-Water Carbonate Turbidites and Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs) Utilizing High-Resolution Electrical Borehole Image Logs: Late Leonardian (E. Permian) Upper Bone Spring Limestone, Delaware Basin, Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. Best Paper - Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering problems, Denver, CO March 1720, 2013. Atekwana, E.A., Mewafy F., Abdel Aal, G. Z., Atekwana, E.A., Beaver, C., Rossbach, S., Slater, L., Ntarlagiannis, D., Revil, A., and Werkema, D. Biogeochemical controls on magnetic susceptibility variations across a hydrocarbon contaminated site. Best Paper – Batelle’s Second International Bioremediation and Sustainable Environmental Technologies Symposium, Jacksonville, FL, 10-13 June. Beaver, C., S. Rossbach, E. Atekwana, E. Atekwana, F. Mewafy, G. Abdel Aal, L. Slater, D. Ntarlagiannis, and A. Revil. Microbial communities within zones of elevated magnetic susceptibilities. Best Poster - Batelle’s Second International Bioremediation and Sustainable Environmental Technologies Symposium, Jacksonville, FL, 10-13 June. Heenan, J.W., L.D. Slater, D. Ntarlagiannis, E.A. Atekwana. Electrical resistivity imaging for long term monitoring of contaminant degradation NEWS ABOUT THE MISSISSIPPIAN CONSORTIUM The Mississippian Consortium, evaluating the stratigraphy and reservoir distribution in the Mississippian Lime of the MidContinent, has made great progress in the first year. In addition to myself (Grammer), we had 4 other faculty members (Jay Gregg, Darwin Boardman, Jim Puckette and Priyank Jaiswal) involved in Year 1 of the project and will be incorporating help from Daniel Lao Davila in Year 2 with work utilizing LIDAR for modeling of outcrop. We currently have 12 sponsors (Chesapeake Energy, Devon Energy, Marathon Oil Company, Newfield Exploration, SandRidge Energy, Longfellow Energy, Red Fork Energy, Tip Top Energy (Sinopec), Chaparral Energy, Unit Corporation, SM Energy and Maverick Brothers Energy), and are hoping to get additional members for Year’s 2 and 3 of the project. At this time, we have 18 graduate students (7 PhD and 11 MS) and 6 undergraduates working on the project. We had a strong showing at the Mid-Continent AAPG Meeting in October up in Wichita. The Mississippian group (faculty and students) from the BPSoG gave 9 presentations and 2 core workshops. In December, we had our Year 1 Annual review where more than 50 participants were present. Faculty and students gave a total of 22 presentations to the consortium members can conducted a core workshop overviewing our approach and initial
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