13 Arctic, Lassen, Glacier, Arches and Everglades National Parks. I am fortunate to have a proficient graduate student TA-‐ reader who does the grading. Plans are to double class enrollment to 200 by adding a second graduate student grader for the Fall semester 2018. 2) Petroleum Geology for Engineers (GEOL 3413): This is the initial course required for the Minor in Petroleum Engineering. This practical course begins with mineral and rock identification and ends with a group term project presentation that recommends drilling 3 infill wells, giving project reserves, ROI evaluation and terms for participation in the project. Class size for this course has declined with oil prices and employment trends in the industry. Last year it was decided to offer this course only in the Fall semester. In the Fall of 2017, 28 engineers were enrolled. We will continue to offer 2 lab sections to allow for enrollment increases. 3) Applied Well Log Analysis for Engineers (GEOL 4323): This is the second Geology sequence course offered to Petroleum Engineering Minor students. This course was first offered to Engineering students who completed GEOL 3413, in the Spring 2010. It meets once a week for 3 hours in the evening for lecture, discussion and problem solving. Topics cover evaluation of the standard suite of vertical hole wireline well logs, introduction to petrophysical evaluation, as well as modern microimaging logs and current BPSG research about unconventional reservoirs. This course is now offered in Spring. Enrollment in the Spring 2018 is currently 21 engineering students 4) Advanced Well Log Analysis for Graduate Geology students (GEOL 5353): The lectures for this course are held at the same time as GEOL 4323. Graduate students have similar homework assignments as Engineering students, however, they are given more challenging logs and problems for evaluation. In addition to weekly homework assignments, graduate students have four additional challenging homework problems. These include: (1) interpretation of an overturned and faulted fold (correlation problem), (2) proper Gamma Ray Shale Volume (Vsh) calculation of a glauconite- ‐rich sandstone, (3) porosity evaluation of an oomoldic carbonate reservoir, and (4) a short paper to evaluate log curve responses of natural fractures in a carbonate reservoir. 5) Introduction to Well Log Analysis (GEOL 4313): This course covers the fundamentals of standard wireline log interpretation to solve subsurface problems. Topics include evaluation of the standard suite of vertical hole wireline well logs, introduction to petrophysical evaluation, as well as modern microimaging logs. Because this class meets twice a week, there is ample time for discussion and practice of techniques. In the Spring 2018, there are 10 undergraduate Geology students enrolled in this course. I currently am the Thesis Advisor for one Master’s Degree student, Alex Ahmadian, who plans to finish his thesis in the summer 2018. My first MS Thesis student, Brent Battle, completed his Thesis in the Fall 2017. I also serve as a member of 10 Master’s Thesis Committees. Finally, I am the Faculty Advisor for the OSU Student Chapter of SPWLA (the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts). Dr. Ahmed Ismail Assistant Professor; Exploration Seismology, Azimuthal Anisotropy, Fractured Reservoir Characterization, Near Surface Geophysics Greetings alumni and friends of the Boone Pickens School of Geology! The 2017-‐2018 school year marks my second year as a faculty member of the BPSG. It was a successful academic year filled with teaching, research, travel, and other activities. In 2017; two of my MS students defended their thesis proposals, I traveled to Malawi for research, presented two papers at the SEG conference in United Arab Emirates, supervised undergraduate research of five students, participated in the field camp, and was nominated as a Fulbright Specialist Roster for a tenure of three years, and a Research Affiliate with University of Illinois at Urbana-‐Champaign for one-‐year renewed annually. I continued teaching my “Introduction to Geophysical Exploration” class, which I consider a very important class to BPSG students as it introduces them to the world of geophysics and, for most of them, is the first geophysics class they have had in their life. In this class, students learn about different geophysical methods including gravity, magnetic, electric, electromagnetic, and seismic and their geological, hydrological, and engineering applications. I work in this class on correcting the common misconception about geophysics as the complex branch of geoscience that deals with extensive math and physics. I rather introduce geophysics to them as an interesting field of geoscience that utilizes our basic understanding of physics and geology to draw images of the earth subsurface. Students learned how different geophysical methods work and how to select the appropriate method to solve the geological problem at hand. Students were also able to better understand the advantages and limitations of geophysics. A good number of the students that attended this class have shown interest in undergraduate and graduate research in geophysics. Last summer, Xtian Aneke and Evin Fetkovich (MS students) worked with me to assemble our first seismic land streamer. We designed the land streamer to acquire high- ‐resolution P- ‐wave seismic reflection data for hydrological and engineering applications. We used this land streamer in Malawi last summer with Dr. Atekwana and Micah Mayle (MS student). We conducted integrated geo- ‐electrical and seismic reflection surveys for groundwater exploration at the Child Legacy Facility in central Malawi. A non-‐profit organization working in Malawi funded the project. Kevin Talley, an OSU Alumni and a member of this organization, has assisted us to apply for the fund and coordinate with the client in Malawi. Micah Mayle (MS student) is using the acquired data from Malawi in his MS thesis. This Malawi study was my only funded project of 2017, as none of my other four submitted research proposals received funding. I have submitted two proposals as a PI to USGS and the Petroleum Research Fund, and two other proposals as a Co- ‐PI to NSF and DOE. Though this was a bit disappointing I will
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