November 2007 Events
HGS Road Rally , Saturday November 10th
A team or individual is given a packet with clues directing you to travel by car to secret cultural,historical, and geological sites in and around Houston. The team that answers the most questions based on the sites/clues and does it in the least mileage wins a trophy. To Register Now!!
Registration deadline is Friday Nov 9th 3:00 PM
HGS General and International Dinner – R.E. Sheriff Lecture
Sponsor: University of Houston Department of Geosciences and UH Geoscience Alumni Association and Swift Energy
Speaker's Name: Dr. Chris Beaumont, Canada Research Chair in Geodynamics, Dalhousie University
Day: Mon Nov 12th 5:30 PM
Location: Westchase Hilton 9999 Westheimer Rd Houston, TX 77042
Summary: Come Meet the Next Generation of Geoscientists from UH! The Robert E. Sheriff Lecture Series was initiated in 1999 by the UHGAA.
The series honors Dr. Sheriff as an educator, scholar, and a proponent for the geosciences. Its mission is to:
1) Bring some of the best known geologists and geophysicists in the world to the Houston community in order to share highly relevant ideas to exploration geology and geophysics and,
2) Showcase geoscience activity at the University of Houston.
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Speaker's Name: Ursula Hammes, Research Associate, PHD, BEG – Texas Bureau of Economic Geology
Day: Tue Nov 13th 11:30 AM
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel-Greenspoint (former Sofitel) 425 North Sam Houston Pkwy E Houston, TX 77060
Summary:
Growth faulted subbasins in the Oligocene Frio Formation are major exploration targets along the South Texas Gulf COast. Historically exploration has targeted on-shelf highstand and trasgressive systems tracts and the lowstand prograding wedge systems tract with great success.
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