Harvey Thorleifson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, U of MN
Seminar Lab Subject:
Geological Mapping
Seminar Lab Location :
In-person only at U of Minnesota, Keller Hall, Room 3-230
Lecture start time 7:00 PM CT.
Seminar Lab Details:
Summary: People invest in new geoscience, as well as ensuring that published information will be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), to yield energy, materials, water, safety, infrastructure design, and an understanding of Earth and its life. Included are research, which is conceptual, mapping, which is spatial, monitoring, which is temporal, and modeling, which assembles the foregoing, to facilitate management. Mapping is an essential service that is directly and indirectly required by all, as multiple resolution, updated systematic mapping for a jurisdiction. We require ongoing mapping of meteorology and climatology, earth surface features, elevation, underground structures, bathymetry, soil mapping, and geological mapping of sediment and rock. For geology, the forthcoming century seems likely to be a time of concurrent commitment to digital publications, as well as their assembly as evergreen seamless databases to support digital twins, which are indefinitely maintained dynamic models such as groundwater models that incorporate monitoring and support management.
Biography: Harvey Thorleifson did a Masters thesis on Lake Agassiz in Manitoba, and a PhD on Hudson Bay at the University of Colorado. He was at the Geological Survey of Canada for nearly two decades, and he was President of the Geological Association of Canada. He has been a U Professor since 2003, and was State Geologist of Minnesota for two decades. He now leads the International Union of Geological Sciences Commission for Geoscience Information.
Harvey Thorleifson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, U of MN
Seminar Lab Subject:
Geological Mapping
Seminar Lab Location :
In-person only at U of Minnesota, Keller Hall, Room 3-230
Lecture start time 7:00 PM CT.
Seminar Lab Details:
Summary: People invest in new geoscience, as well as ensuring that published information will be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), to yield energy, materials, water, safety, infrastructure design, and an understanding of Earth and its life. Included are research, which is conceptual, mapping, which is spatial, monitoring, which is temporal, and modeling, which assembles the foregoing, to facilitate management. Mapping is an essential service that is directly and indirectly required by all, as multiple resolution, updated systematic mapping for a jurisdiction. We require ongoing mapping of meteorology and climatology, earth surface features, elevation, underground structures, bathymetry, soil mapping, and geological mapping of sediment and rock. For geology, the forthcoming century seems likely to be a time of concurrent commitment to digital publications, as well as their assembly as evergreen seamless databases to support digital twins, which are indefinitely maintained dynamic models such as groundwater models that incorporate monitoring and support management.
Biography: Harvey Thorleifson did a Masters thesis on Lake Agassiz in Manitoba, and a PhD on Hudson Bay at the University of Colorado. He was at the Geological Survey of Canada for nearly two decades, and he was President of the Geological Association of Canada. He has been a U Professor since 2003, and was State Geologist of Minnesota for two decades. He now leads the International Union of Geological Sciences Commission for Geoscience Information.
Tim McMahon, Ph.D., Project Manager & Principal Investigator for Tight Oil Resource Assessment (TORA) consortium
Seminar Lab Subject:
Shale in a Nutshell: An Overview of Shale Oil and Gas in the U.S. and Texas (V)
Seminar Lab Location :
Virtual lecture 7:00 PM CT.
Participation instructions will be e-mailed to GSM members. If you are not a member of GSM and wish to attend this free seminar online, register as follows by 12 noon CT Monday, Nov 25: Go to the Contact menu above and select "Ask GSM". In the form that appears, enter your name and e-mail address. Enter "Nov 25 lecture" in the subject line. In the message body, please enter the city and state or country from which you will view the seminar. You will receive instructions by e-mail prior to the lecture. Check your spam folder if the instructions do not appear in your in-box at least one hour prior to the lecture.
Seminar Lab Details:
Summary:Over the last 20 years, oil and gas production from shale reservoirs has grown from a small fraction to more than half of total U.S. hydrocarbon production. This presentation is an attempt to give a high-level overview of the development and current state of shale oil and gas in the United States and Texas. A brief history of hydrocarbon production from shale in the U.S. is given, which shows that the “shale revolution” was the product of more than two decades of experimentation and technology development, rather than an overnight success. A review of the basin development and geologic characteristics of major shale plays highlights that many of these “different” reservoirs were deposited in similar conditions and are sometimes stratigraphically equivalent. We end with a discussion of shale resource base and production trends.
Biography: Tim McMahon is the Project Manager for the Tight Oil Resource Assessment (TORA) consortium at the Bureau of Economic Geology. Prior to joining the BEG in July 2022, Tim spent more than 25 years as a geologist in the oil and gas industry, including 10 years with ConocoPhillips, mostly as an exploration geoscientist. He has worked on projects around the world, and lived in Canada, Norway, and Malaysia. After leaving ConocoPhillips, he founded Cutlass Exploration where he participated in onshore US exploration wells and provided geoscience consulting around play-based exploration, resource assessment and application of machine learning to geological problems. He received a B.A. in Geology from Rutgers, an M.S. in Geology from NMSU, and a PhD from UT-Austin.
Tim McMahon, Ph.D., Project Manager & Principal Investigator for Tight Oil Resource Assessment (TORA) consortium
Seminar Lab Subject:
Shale in a Nutshell: An Overview of Shale Oil and Gas in the U.S. and Texas (V)
Seminar Lab Location :
Virtual lecture 7:00 PM CT.
Participation instructions will be e-mailed to GSM members. If you are not a member of GSM and wish to attend this free seminar online, register as follows by 12 noon CT Monday, Nov 25: Go to the Contact menu above and select "Ask GSM". In the form that appears, enter your name and e-mail address. Enter "Nov 25 lecture" in the subject line. In the message body, please enter the city and state or country from which you will view the seminar. You will receive instructions by e-mail prior to the lecture. Check your spam folder if the instructions do not appear in your in-box at least one hour prior to the lecture.
Seminar Lab Details:
Summary:Over the last 20 years, oil and gas production from shale reservoirs has grown from a small fraction to more than half of total U.S. hydrocarbon production. This presentation is an attempt to give a high-level overview of the development and current state of shale oil and gas in the United States and Texas. A brief history of hydrocarbon production from shale in the U.S. is given, which shows that the “shale revolution” was the product of more than two decades of experimentation and technology development, rather than an overnight success. A review of the basin development and geologic characteristics of major shale plays highlights that many of these “different” reservoirs were deposited in similar conditions and are sometimes stratigraphically equivalent. We end with a discussion of shale resource base and production trends.
Biography: Tim McMahon is the Project Manager for the Tight Oil Resource Assessment (TORA) consortium at the Bureau of Economic Geology. Prior to joining the BEG in July 2022, Tim spent more than 25 years as a geologist in the oil and gas industry, including 10 years with ConocoPhillips, mostly as an exploration geoscientist. He has worked on projects around the world, and lived in Canada, Norway, and Malaysia. After leaving ConocoPhillips, he founded Cutlass Exploration where he participated in onshore US exploration wells and provided geoscience consulting around play-based exploration, resource assessment and application of machine learning to geological problems. He received a B.A. in Geology from Rutgers, an M.S. in Geology from NMSU, and a PhD from UT-Austin.
