15 Dr. Daniel A. Laó Dávila Associate Professor; Structural Geology; Plate Tectonics; Fault Slip Analysis and Carribiean Geology Hola to all alumni and friends of the Boone Pickens School of Geology. Thank you for your support. We have accomplished many things this year at the School. I have contributed in teaching 26 students from the Structural Geology course, and 160 students from the Geology and Human Affairs course. I supervised 5 undergraduate students and three graduate students on research. Inés Barrios Galíndez is about to finish her M.S. degree. She is finding signals of active tectonics using geomorphic indices in western Puerto Rico. Steven Johnson is close to submitting his manuscript on the effect of Pre-‐existing structures on the formation of new normal faults during continental rifting. Likewise, new graduate student Estefanny Dávalos will locate the best geothermal prospects in the Malawi Rift. Research continued in the East Africa Rift System and in Oklahoma. Five students, Dr. Estella Atekwana, and I travelled to Malawi for 4 weeks to conduct research of continental rift initiation in Malawi. This work constitutes the last year of the National Science Foundation grant awarded to us. The students learned about tectonics in one of the best places to study continental rifting and then presented their research at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans. I was invited to give presentations to the Oklahoma Engineers Association, and at the University of Puerto Rico. I am also the co-‐author of 2 published papers in the AEI proceedings, and Tectonophysics. My students and I also presented 15 conference papers in the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the Geological Society of America, the 2017 GeoPRISMS Theoretical and Experimental Institute on Rift Initiation and Evolution, the Symposium on the Application of Geo- ‐ physics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, the South- ‐Central Section Geological Society of America, the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 2017 Conference, and the Joint 52nd North- ‐ eastern Annual Section / 51st North-‐Central Annual Section Meeting Geological Society of America. We look forward to continue to conduct high- ‐quality research, advanced education, and service to Oklahoma and the world. Students from the BPSG, University of Puerto Rico and the Malawi University of Science and Technology and a scientist from the Malawi Geological Survey pose above the valley of the Malawi Rift as part of the 2017 International Research Experience for Students funded by the National Science Foundation to Drs. Daniel Laó-‐Dávila and Estella Atekwana. Graduate students Sam Martin (left), Conn Wethington, (center), and Stone Urban (right) describe core of Cretaceous siliciclastic strata in the eastern Gulf of Mexico Basin in east-‐central Mississippi. This research is part of a DOE-‐funded, multi-‐institutional initiative (CarbonSAFE) that includes Dr. Pashin’s research group and is determining the applicability of new power generation and CO2 storage technologies.
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