10 (with Taylor Thompson, OSU MS as a co‐ author). Ahmed El Belasy (PhD student on joint program with Mansoura University in Cairo) continues his work on the Cretaceous of the Sinai Peninsula, and has also gotten started on an additional project studying the tripolite reservoirs of the MISS along with Buddy Price (DVN, OSU MS). CJ Appelseth (MS) is starting to wrap up another regional sequence stratigraphic study of the MISS in a more distal position than previous workers. Elizabeth Elium (MS) is starting to work the MISS along with Matt Pranter at OU where we are doing regional correlations using Artificial Neural Networks and building 2D reservoir models on a sub‐regional scale. Jim Karsten, our most recent MS student in the group, will be starting a quarry‐ based 3D modeling study of exposed Silurian reef deposits on the edges of the Michigan Basin. We also had a former PhD student of mine join us for an 8 month post‐doc from Beni Suef University in Egypt. Dr. Yasser Salam continues to work the Cretaceous of the Sinai, as well as the Eocene of the Red Sea. In addition to the normal faculty activities, I also taught two Petroskills courses on carbonate reservoir characterization this year, one in London with 8 different companies and one in Venezuela for Repsol. It never ceases to amaze me how much the work being done here at OSU is being followed by folks from around the world, as I inevitably get questions on various things we are doing here at OSU, especially with respect to the Mississippian unconventional reservoirs. On that front, the AAPG Memoir we have in process stemming from our MISS Consortium as well as workers throughout the region should be finished up and in print by the end of the year. So far we have not been able to get a MISS Phase II underway, but we continue to modify our direction there and also to pursue other consortia ideas in and out of the region. The economy in the industry is still not back at a level where companies are funding these types of research programs, but with the potential to leverage other companies funding as part of a consortium, we remain cautiously optimistic in getting another consortium going soon. As always, please stop by and say hello anytime you are in Stillwater. Wishing everyone the best for the coming year. Dr. Jay Gregg Professor; V. Brown Monnett Chair of Petroleum Geology; Carbonate Petrology, Sedimentology and Sedimentary Greetings to all of the alumni and friends of the BPSOG! I have been busy this year with teaching and research as usual. Mostly I have been wrapping up work on the Mississippian Consortium. Sahar Mohammadi finished her Ph.D. degree and her dissertation is now with the OSU library. She has two papers that have been accepted for publication (and should be out later this year) based on her dissertation and a third that is in the works. I am also co‐authoring Mississippian papers with Drs. Jaiswal and Puckette and students. Most of the Mississippian papers will be coming out in an upcoming AAPG Memoir on the Mississippian. Last Fall I developed an on‐line version of our historical geology course with Ph.D. student Gina Lukoczki. She did most of the work. I also teach the face‐to‐face version of that course as well as my advanced graduate course in carbonate petrology and geochemistry. Last summer I took grad students Gina Lukoczki, Sahar Mohammadi, Gina Callaway, Britney Temple, and Jordan Ray to the XIII Pan American Conference on Current Research on Fluid Inclusions. This is an international conference held every 4 years. Britney, Gina, and Sahar all presented their research to a relatively stellar group of international fluid inclusion experts. Britney defended her thesis on the Arbuckle last Spring and is now working for Chesapeake Energy. I have one relatively new M.S. level graduate student who has started a project on the Arbuckle with me, Phillip Bailey, who is with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. He has finished his course work (this is why we offer most of our graduate courses in the evening). Phillip has started examining and collecting Arbuckle core and is getting ready to send out samples to have thin sections made. Gina Callaway is all finished with coursework too and has been doing petrographic work for her project on the Trenton in the Michigan Basin. She also is working full time for Continental Resources and is particularly busy because she was recently promoted. I am planning fieldwork with Gina Lukoczki in Western Hungary this coming summer. I am also hoping to spend some time with Mike Grammer in Bremen, Deutschland sampling IODP mudrock cores at the Oceanographic Institute there, if we get the funding. Then I am going on to Ireland for a week or two with Mickey. I have submitted a proposal with Mike Grammer to the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund to begin a new study of calcareous mudrock reservoirs. This is what the trip to Bremen will be about if the funding comes through. The mudrock project will support Sahar on a postdoc so I really hope that it comes through. Some of you who know Sahar understand that her situation is particularly tenuous due to the actions of the current administration in Washington that are directed against her home country. I also am working on an NSF proposal with colleagues at University of Illinois, University of Indiana, and Western Michigan University to study a more theoretical study of the mineralogy and crystallography of dolomite. We expect to submit this proposal in the early summer. I do not know if I will have any new graduate students starting with me next Fall. Everything depends on the funding situation. If the grants that I have mentioned are not funded I probably will retire at the end of 2018. I am 66 now that will be 68 then. That is when Gina Lukoczki is hoping to have her dissertation finished. I will need to get all other graduate students out the door by then as well. If I get funding we can tack at least a year onto that date. Mickey and I plan to leave Oklahoma soon after retirement and are exploring several options for the next phase of our lives.
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