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December 2011
Susan M. Kar - U.S. Geological Survey, Jaroslav Dosta - Department of Geology, and James C Barker - Ucore Rare Metals, Inc.: "Practical Seismic Petrophysics: The Effective Use of Log DataFor Seismic Analysis"
November 2011
Tom Homza, Principal Regional Geologist
of Alaska, Shell Exploration and Production Company: "Toward an Integrated Tectonic Model for the Canada Basin: Implications for North Alaska"
October 2011
Kristine J. Crossen and David R. Yesner, University of Alaska Anchorage: "Youngest Mammoths in America: 5,700 Year Old Mammoth Remains from Qagnax Cave, Pribilof Islands, Alaska"
September 2011
Paul L. Decker, Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas.: "Source-reservoired Oil Resources, Alaska North Slope"
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April 2011
Erik Hulm, BP Exploration Alaska Inc.: "Alaska Heavy Oil"
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March 2011
Scott Arko, Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, Alaska: "Elevation Modeling in Alaska"
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February 2011
James L. Coleman, Jr., Director of the Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, US Geological Survey, Reston, VA: "Tight-Gas Sandstone Reservoirs: The 200-Year Path from Unconventional to Conventional Gas Resource and Beyond"
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January 2011
Chris Waythomas and Stephanie Prejean, US Geological Survey, Alaska Volcano Observatory: "The 7-8 August 2008 Eruption of Kasatochi Volcano, Central Aleutian Islands, Alaska"
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December 2010
Alison Till, U.S. Geological Survey: "Paleogeographic Reconstruction of the Arctic Alaska-Chukotka Terrane"
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November 2010
Joann E. Welton, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company: "Evaluating Siliciclastic Reservoir Quality
in a Changing World"
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October 2010
Peter J. Haeussler, US Geological Survey: "Pliocene Deformation in Cook Inlet"
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September 2010
David Scholl, Emeritus Scientist, US Geological Survey, Sydney Chapman Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks: "Earthquake & Tsunami Hazards
Of the Aleut ians"
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May 2010
Brigette A. Martini, PhD, Senior Staff Geologist, Ormat Nevada Inc.: "Geothermal Exploration at Mt. Spurr, AK Summer 2010"
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April 2010
Donald L. Gautier, Energy Resources Program, U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA: "Estimating Undiscovered Oil and Gas in the Arctic: The U.S. Geological Survey Circum-Arct ic Resource Appraisal"
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March 2010
Patrick Druckenmiller, Earth Science Curator, University of Alaska Museum Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF: "Mesozoic Vertebrates of Alaska"
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February 2010
Mark Myers, State of Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Coordinator.: "Geoscience, Ideology and the Politics of Energy"
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January 2010
William R. Morris and Mark H. Scheihing, ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc.: "Distribution of Turbidite Elements From a Small, Sandy Basin Floor Fan, Tanqua Karoo, South Africa"
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December 2009
John Howell, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway: "Laser Scanning and Geological Modeling: From Outcrop to Flow Simulation"
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November 2009
Stephen M. Hubbard, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB: "High-Relief Slope Clinoform Development: An Outcrop Analog for the Cretaceous Brookian Foreland Succession From Patagonia, Chile"
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October 2009
Steve Wright, Alaska Asset Development Manager: Chevron North American Exploration & Production: "Cook Inlet Natural Gas Crisis, Fact or Fiction?"
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September 2009
Paul O'Sullivan, Apatite to Zircon, Inc.: "Timing of Brooks Range and North Slope Uplift and Denudation: A Summary of Fission Track Results Completed During the Last 20 Years"
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May 2009
Rocky Reifenstuhl, Alaska DGGS and Paul Decker, Alaska DOG: "Bristol Bay - Alaska Peninsula Region"
Board Member Election
Read Abstract | May Newsletter
April 2009
Steve Jones, BP Exploration Alaska, Inc: "Development o fLiberty Field, North Slope, Alaska"
Abstract | April Newsletter
March 2009
Trond H. Torsvik, Centre for Geodynamics, Geological Survey of Norway, Physics of Geological Processes, University of Oslo
"Large Scale Plate Tectonics in the Circum Arctic" - Abstract
"GPlates Workshop" - Abstract | GPlates Manual
March Newsletter
February 2009
Gerald Dickens, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, Rice University, Houston, Texas: "Early Cenozoic Climate and Carbon Cycling:
The Sedimentary Record of Global Warming and Massive Carbon Input" and "The Global Carbon Cycle with Seafloor Methane"
Abstract | February Newsletter
January 2009
Christina Neal, USGS: "The July-August 2008 hydrovolcanic eruption of Okmok Volcano, Umnak Island, Alaska"
Abstract | January Newsletter
December 2008
No lecture
December Newsletter
November 2008
Dave Houseknecht, US Geological Survey: "Beaufortian Dusk – Brookian Dawn: Tectonic, Paleogeographic, Sequence Stratigraphic, and Exploration Significance of the Lower Cretaceous Succession in Arctic Alaska"
Abstract | November Newsletter
October 2008
Peter Haeussler, US Geological Survey: "Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis at Seward and Valdez Triggered by the 1964 magnitude 9.2 Alaska Earthquake"
Abstract | October Newsletter
September 2008
Tom Homza, Shell Exploration & Production Company: "Petroleum Geology of the Western Beaufort Sea"
Abstract | September Newsletter
May 2008
Jerry Siok, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc: "Unleashing Deep Gas Offshore Nile Delta Egypt"
Abstract | May Newsletter
April 2008
2008 AGS Technical Conference: "Prudhoe Discovery at 40 - A Retrospective"
April 08 Newsletter
March 2008
Marti Miller, USGS: "Tectonic setting of Late Cretaceous precious metal and mercury metallogenesis, Kuskokwim Mineral Belt, southwestern Alaska"
March 08 Abstract
February 2008
Thomas D. Hamilton: "Glaciation of the Pebble Project Area"
February 08 Newsletter
January 2008
Dr Dwight Bradley: "Detrital Zircon Geochronology; Interior Alaska"
January 08 Newsletter
December 2007
Dr. Naresh Kumar: "Stratigraphic and Tectonic framework of the US Chukchi Shelf"
December 07 Abstract
November 2007
Dr. Robert Hunter: "Alaska Gas Hydrate Research"
November 07 Abstract
October 2007
Dr.Kirk Johnson: "A Fossil Fueled Tour of Past and Future Climates"
October 07 Abstract
September 2007
Bryan Sralla:" Hydrocarbon Potential Sapsuk Lake Anticline, Alaska Peninsula"
September 07 Abstract
