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fall department open house/picnicoct 7 2016join the department of geology and geophysics at our fall open house/picnic!the department fall open house/picnic is october 7th from 4-7pm in the halbouty building food and drinks will be provided open house 2016 talks october 7th 4-5pm in halbouty 101: bobby reece investigating earth process through multi-scale seismology ryan ewing wind-blown bedform dynamics on earth and other worlds hiroko kitajima rock deformation in the nankai subduction zone patrick fulton 25 000 feet under the sea: taking the temperature inside japan's magnitude 9 earthquake fault masako tominaga deciphering geological processes using deep submergence geophysics peter knappett geogenic contaminants in groundwater julia reece multi-scale investigation of geomechanical processes in mudstones the following day the college of geosciences will host a college tailgate on october 8th for the texas a&m versus tennessee football game the tailgate will be held between the kamu building and the hagler center starting at 11am until game time
alumni facebook groupoct 7 2016please join our official texas a&m geology & geophysics alumni facebook group to learn about future events and job opportunities as well as to stay connected to our department!search: texas a&m geology & geophysics alumni (official) or use the link: https://wwwfacebookcom/groups/tamuggalumni
meet elizabeth collinsoct 7 2016elizabeth is the lead office assistant for the department of geology & geophysics business office she is responsible for ap/ar invoice preparation and submission personal reimbursement preparation monitors aging invoice submissions handles building keys department truck reservation assisting the business administrators mail coordination and other clerical tasks elizabeth began working for the department in may of 2014 and has loved being able to interact with students in a friendly atmosphere in her spare time elizabeth loves to cook and reconstruct pescatarian-friendly recipes she belongs to numerous animal rescues and advises various groups including the women veterans panel on campus elizabeth was a member of the last graduating class of wacs the womens army corps and served 14 years on active duty and 3 years on reserve elizabeth also assists in raising her grandchildren 2 boys and 1 girl and is very involved in their school activities
introduction to geology & geophysics courseoct 7 2016for the past three years the departments academic advisor suzanne rosser has conducted a course specifically designed to introduce new students into the geology & geophysics program it started as a small class geared for transfer students to meet faculty and has grown to include transfer students freshmen and students who have changed majors into our program this course now focuses not only on students getting to know the departments faculty but also exposes students to university resources such as the academic success center and the writing center as well as other geologic exposure this course also has a high impact learning experience where students are introduced to various aspects of geology and are given the opportunity to go outside students will take a field trip to canyon lake gorge this october 22nd to explore the geology in texas click here to see pictures from the students trip to nearby hensel park where they completed simple field exercises such as taking a bearing and calculating a proper scale for their maps this course is a part of the departments new undergraduate curriculum to be in effect fall 2017
august graduation brunchoct 7 2016the department would like to congratulate all those that graduated this past august! our new alumni: ba geology: brad alexander bs geology: allayne babin sam berg jennifer blake sean borremans inva braha lucas daudt ryan dziuk oby ebere garret fisler monica fortuna meredith gregory william hughes cory hungate scott lansford gonzalo may zachry neely daniel ravenna dalton schulze hayden stansbury greg sullivan paige thompson matt vacek judson ward ryan wernette tim wilcox bs geophysics: phillip sinclair ms geology: mike deluca maria antonieta gutierrez azuaje bronwyn moore hongyu tian ms geophysics: akhil amara katie bales jacob bayer daniel tebo phd geology: brad weymer phd geophysics: dehan zhu click here to see images from our august graduation and graduation brunch!
new undergraduate curriculumoct 7 2016the department has recently submitted its new curriculum to the university for approval and will be in effect starting this upcoming fall 2017starting during the summer of 2014 the department began running curriculum study groups where current and former students industry employers and graduate programs indicated areas where our degrees needed to be modified or enhanced following the suggestions made by this group rubrics were created to define the learnings to produce the ideal tamu g&g graduate discipline-specific groups met to review and revise the rubrics to decide what learning outcomes needed to be met and how they would be met in the classroom setting there are various advantages of the new curriculum which will standardize courses between professors the new curriculum will maintain the broad foundation in traditional disciplines such as rigorous math and science courses with the new curriculum students will spend time in the field earlier in their degree and will get more experience with writing speaking and research in the geology degree new courses will be implemented and new aspects of courses will go into effectfor example geologic field methods will now include a gis short course upon returning from the field the geophysics degree is implementing various new courses such as a geophysical signal processing course and geophysical field methods course the goals of the changes in the geophysics degree are to strengthen and broaden students hands-on experience with modern geophysical data collection and manipulation the department is excited about the new changes occurring to the undergraduate curriculum and hope future graduates will be excellent candidates for graduate school and careers special thanks to dr david sparks dr julie newman suzanne rosser cristina figueroa the center for teaching excellence staff the college of geosciences and the department of geology & geophysics for their efforts in the new geology and geophysics undergraduate curriculum
geology summer field campoct 7 2016 the department of geology & geophysics is educating the leaders of tomorrow through high impact learning opportunities such as field camp in summer 2015 tim powell 79 made a significant contribution toward the departments field camp endowment goal of $5 million whether you make an impact by supporting the annual fund a major gift for academic or high impact learning programs or by establishing an endowment through a planned giving strategy your support is critical geosciencestamuedu/give for more information about supporting field camp experiences contact cara milligan ‘08 senior director of development at cmilligan@txamfoundationcom or (979) 862-4944
department tailgatesoct 7 2016two geology and geophysics organizations aapg and the texas a&m geology & geophysics society host the department tailgate every texas a&m home game has a tailgate with food and water provided as well as some games the tailgate location is right across the saw ‘em off statue across from kyle field current and former students faculty and staff are welcome! click here to view pictures from our last tailgate!
2016 geosciences career fairoct 7 2016every year recruiters attend texas a&m universitys career fair to seek out potential employees there was a networking event held the night before the career fair at the hilton hotel where students are given the opportunity to socialize with recruiters in a social settingthe following companies attended the 2016 geosciences career fair: apache corporation bhp billiton petroleum bp cgg chevron corporation conocophillips davita duke tip enercon energy access solutions llc freese and nichols halliburton intera incorporated killeen independent school district marine officer programs national geospatial-intelligence agency naval intelligence activity noaa commissioned officer corps oasis petroleum peace corps schlumberger sm energy tamu accelerate online alternative teachers certification program tamu college of geosciences graduate programs tamu mays business school ms business program texas a&m health science center school of public health university lands / ts oil and gas institute unt health science center school of public health us fish and wildlife service w&m environmental group yes prep public schools we thank all those that came to our career fair whether current students former students recruiters or staff! picture from the student geosciences council of the networking event
dr ryan ewingoct 7 2016ryans research aims to understand the evolution of landscapes and the sedimentary record through physical processes operating at the surface-atmosphere interface of earth mars and titan (a moon of saturn)ryan c ewing hails from rogers arkansas and finished an undergraduate geology degree in 1998 at the colorado college in colorado springs ut with an honors thesis on mars geomorphology his continued interest in geology led him to the university of texas at austin where he finished his phd in 2009 studying wind-blown sediments on earth and mars following his phd ewing was awarded a two-year national science foundation postdoctoral fellowship from 2009-2011 and was hosted at princeton university and the california institute of technology (caltech) ewing held a tenure-track position in the department of geological sciences at the university of alabama from 2011-2013 before arriving in the department of geology and geophysics at texas a&m in 2013 ewing received tenure and promotion to associate professor at texas a&m in 2016 the ewings research uses field work laboratory experiments airborne and satellite remote sensing and numerical modeling to interrogate the climate histories of rocks and landscapes on earth mars and titan a moon of saturn he has received external funding from the american chemical society petroleum research fund national science foundation (nsf) national parks service and nasa ewings field work takes him to the outback of australia to study 650 million year old rocks formed during an extreme glaciation southern utah to study 280 million year old sandy deserts and white sands new mexico to study modern sand dunes ewings recent planetary work has been published in the major scientific journals nature geoscience and science these works focus on present and past climate reconstructions of titan and mars using satellite data and data from nasas mars science laboratory curiosity rover ewing worked on the curiosity rover team member for two years he contributed scientifically through image analysis of rocks and modern sediments and operationally as a surface properties scientists who helps the rover engineers interpret the terrain over which the rover drives ewing will continue his research in earth and planetary geology and is aiming to expand his field areas to southern california to study the dynamics of giant sand dunes using multi-temporal high resolution topography and to padre island texas to study the dynamics of microbially influenced wind-blown sand transport as a potential analog for early earth and mars ​​ dr ewing has active field work in texas new mexico utah and south australia
dr ewing has active field work in texas new mexico utah and south australia
texas a&m researcher: matthews latest tracking models potentially bad scenario for floridaoct 6 2016updated models have hurricane matthew affecting 9 million along the southeastern coastover 9 million people could be impacted by hurricane matthew along the florida georgia and carolina coasts as it draws closer to landfall – according to the latest tracking matthew is expected to gain intensity and reach its peak off the atlantic coast of florida as a strong category 4 hurricane with sustained winds up to 140-145 mph matthew is potentially the strongest storm to hit the florida coast since hurricane andrew in 1992 dr brent mcroberts of texas a&ms department of geography in the college of geosciences is part of a team that includes researchers from the university of michigan (seth guikema) and ohio state university (steven quiring) their objective: to make accurate predictions for power outages in devastating storms dr mcroberts is tasked with looking at multiple factors such as wind population land environment soil conditions – and adding them to the power outage model to form a more accurate prediction for the storm typically hurricane-related outages are caused by downed power lines which result from strong winds or trees getting entangled with the lines strong winds will blow over both the powerlines and the trees said dr mcroberts but with additional information such as soil moisture they can get a more accurate idea of the potential devastation for populated areas with large power grids if the soils are wetter before the storm hits then the soil is going to be looser and the trees and power lines are more susceptible to being blown over continued dr mcroberts the team also looks at drought conditions if an area has been under a long-term drought the trees are going to be weakened from lacking the necessary water to be properly nourished – putting them at greater risk for being blown over in a powerful storm matthews current path is very troubling for the state of florida its expected to travel right along the florida coastline keeping it in close enough proximity to unleash some of its strong winds over land in heavily populated areas such as miami said dr mcroberts but matthews strong winds arent the only problem when a hurricane goes on land and remains there for a significant amount of time the storm loses its energy source and can eventually die out but according to dr mcroberts with matthew traveling over the warmer and shallow waters along the coast of florida ­– it is highly likely to maintain its strength and be a very destructive storm its close enough to the coast to unleash its winds but its also expected to stay over water which is the natural energy source for a hurricane" its a pretty bad scenario for florida added dr mcroberts read more here by: andrew vernon ‘06 for more information contact robyn blackmon at 979-845-6324 or robynblackmon@tamuedu the latest tracking has hurricane matthew traveling up the florida atlantic coast and potentially making landfall around cape canaveral model provided by dr brent mcroberts
the latest tracking has hurricane matthew traveling up the florida atlantic coast and potentially making landfall around cape canaveral model provided by dr brent mcroberts
kristen thyng authors paper on the importance of colormap accuracysep 26 2016a research team from across the state of texas recently joined dr kristen thyng in publishing a research paper – true colors of oceanography: guidelines for effective and accurate colormap selectionthe paper focuses on encouraging scientists to think about the impact of colormaps in presenting their data many colormaps tend to use jet (rainbow) based colors which can be misleading to viewers while evidence shows colormap choice is important for an audience in understanding data it doesnt necessarily get a lot of attention we present literature that speaks to the importance of how people perceive color scales – showing that while hue-based (rainbow) colormaps are commonly-used they can lead to misinterpretation said dr kristen thyng lead author of the paper the research team suggests that scientists focus on making sure colors are just as accurate as the words theyre using to interpret the data they emphasize the importance of color beyond simply being an artistic expression inaccurate color scales can give viewers an unrealistic perspective of data which impacts its perception for example we see yellow in a typical rainbow as being brighter than the surrounding colors so an audience will tend to notice whatever is represented in yellow more strongly compared to the rest of the plot regardless of whether it was intended to be more important or not we propose that in general a colormap that accounts for human perception and does not have incidental artificial perceptual jumps are better for properly displaying your data added dr thyng additionally the team offeres guidelines for scientists to consider when creating colormaps for oceanographic data their main focus is increasing more accurate communication of scientific data – while also considering human intuition and visual perception with interpreting data as part of the paper the team also put together several scientific software packages of uniform colormaps available online the response that we have gotten to this paper and the colormaps has been phenomenal and really encouraging people are interested to learn more about colormaps – and also happy to have easily available nice-looking options to use for their own plots said dr thyng you can read the research paper in its entirety here colormaps shown at left in jet and at right in a colormap from cmocean figure courtesy of dr kristen thyng
colormaps shown at left in jet and at right in a colormap from cmocean figure courtesy of dr kristen thyng
at the request of tony reisinger the cameron county coastal and marine agent for texas sea grant and texas a&m agrilife extension dr jinha jung assistant professor of engineering at texas a&m university-corpus christi brought two uavs to the lower coast on sept 20 photo by seth patterson/texas sea grant
dr gordon p eaton in front of the residence hall at iowa state university bearing his namesake (photo courtesy of iowa state university)
estate gift from bill and barbara barnes will support newly endowed professorship and scholarshipsaug 4 2016selfless service: the desire and ability to put others before self making personal sacrifices to better our corps university state and nation – this is one of the corps values for members of the texas a&m corps of cadets and those values are embodied in its members like bill barnes (76)bill and his wife barbara have made a contribution to establish the endowed barbara s and bill s barnes 76 professorship in geology & geophysics for the college of geosciences with an estate gift any remaining funds from the gift will also be used to establish the barbara s and bill s barnes 76 endowed scholarship the department of geology & geophysics has thirty-two faculty members including three joint appointments and four post-doctoral researchers bill and barbara hope this endowment will further the continued success of faculty within g&g the college as a whole leads the way with a 1:13 faculty to student ratio our desired impact would be for the professorship to attract an outstanding faculty member and for the scholarships to ease the financial burden for future students said bill the college of geosciences has over 200 scholarships available to help its students better afford the opportunities to earn a degree from texas a&m in addition the barnes gift will establish the barbara s and bill s barnes 76 corps of cadets endowed scholarship bill graduated from texas a&m as a member of the corps of cadets and enjoyed a 30-year career in oil & gas exploration with various companies barbara graduated with a degree in geophysics from the university of houston in addition to her 30 years in oil & gas exploration she was also very active with the girl scouts the barnes strongly believe that education is the foundation for future success i always felt having a degree from texas a&m university was a real advantage the degree is just the start real success comes as a result of hard work added bill and because of contributions from people like bill and barbara barnes – future aggies geoscientists and cadets will have a better opportunity for success by: andrew vernon ‘06 for more information on giving to the college of geosciences contact cara milligan:(979) 862-4944 or cmilligan@txamfoundationcom our desired impact would be for the professorship to attract an outstanding faculty member and for the scholarships to ease the financial burden for future students said bill
our desired impact would be for the professorship to attract an outstanding faculty member and for the scholarships to ease the financial burden for future students said bill
dr kristen thyng's research on the texas city "y" oil spillaug 2 2016in march 2014 a massive oil spill occurred in the galveston bay near the texas city y when an inbound cargo ship had collided with an oil tank-barge according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration over 168 000 gallons of oil was spilt into the bay most of the oil washed up on shore and tar residue was left on the beaches around galveston within a few days the same oil and tar residue was washing up on the shores near the mustang and padre islands dr kristen thyng an assistant research professor at texas a&m university and a few of her colleagues began a research experiment ­– with the goal being to recreate an oil spill from galveston bay near the texas city y in her report the research group analyzed 44 total tarball samples that were collected after the texas city oil spill on galveston island and mustang island with a combined interdisciplinary effort my co-authors and i used numerical modeling to examine the oil transport tarball source-fingerprinting chemistry and microbiology together to better understand what occurred during the spill said dr thyng by the end of the research they were able to successfully demonstrate an integrated approach to determining the fate of spilled oil dr thyng and her research team were able to successfully demonstrate an integrated approach to determining the fate of spilled oil the link below directly connects you to dr kristen thyngs published paper on her findings during her research http://wwwsciencedirectcom/science/article/pii/s0025326x16303964 this map shows the progress of dr thyng's research into the fate of spilled oil
this map shows the progress of dr thyng's research into the fate of spilled oil
jason sylvan named ocean discovery distinguished lecturerjul 21 2016congratulations to dr jason sylvan on being named to the 2016-2017 class of ocean discovery distinguished lecturers!dr sylvans research focuses on microbial ecology of marine hydrothermal ecosystems subseafloor volcanic crust oil spill microbial ecology and biogeochemistry and microbiology of coastal hypoxia ("dead zones") he has participated in several scientific ocean drilling expeditions most recently iodp expedition 360 which drilled into the atlantis bank on the southwest indian ridge six ocean discovery lecturers are chosen for each academic year after completion of the required lectures the usssp (united states scientific support program) provides a small honorarium for the speakers participation congratulations to dr jason sylvan on being named to the 2016-2017 class of ocean discovery distinguished lecturers!
congratulations to dr jason sylvan on being named to the 2016-2017 class of ocean discovery distinguished lecturers!
dr reece's current research focuses on understanding the mechanics and flow behavior of mudstones and the diagenesis in shale gas reservoirs
geol 609 bahamas field tripjul 18 2016 modern carbonates is a graduate course led by dr juan carlos laya that travels to andros island bahamas this course focuses on studying the modern analog of a carbonate environment to better understand ancient carbonate environments such as the southern us mexico and middle east students spent one week on andros island where they looked at various environments including tidal flats ooid shoals and patch reefs students were expected to geologically map the areas with the use of google earth prior to the trip then edit maps based on observations made during the trip students took cores samples and made smear slides while in the field this course required a swimming test so that students could snorkel while in the bahamas by cristina figueroa ‘15 view the photos here students spent one week on andros island where they looked at various environments including tidal flats ooid shoals and patch reefs