Introductions 

Dr. Mike Pope, Texas A&M University, Department Head

Friday, August 31, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101

Ocean Chemistry and Hydrodynamics as Controls of Mud Production on Great Bahama Bank

Dr. Sam Purkis, University of Miami

Friday, September 7, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101

Climate Extremes at the Dawn of Animal Life 

Dr. Kristin Bergmann, Massachusetts Institue of Technology

Friday, September 14, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101

TAMU Unconventional Reservoirs Outcrop Characterization (UROC) Research in the Wolf Camp Hills (Permian Basin), Brewster County Texas

Dr. Art Donovan, Texas A&M University, Berg-Hughes Center

Friday, September 21, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101

Predicting API Gravity with Basin Modeling: New Reaction Kinetics

Friedemann Baur, Chevron

Friday, September 28, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101

Water Resource Stewardship in the U.S. National Parks Service 

Dr. Ed Harvey, National Park Service

Friday, October 5, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101

Drilling into the History of Amazon Climate and Life: Integrating Geosciences and Phylogenetics to Study the Cenozoic Evolution of Tropical South America

Dr. Paul Baker, Duke University

Friday, October 12, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101

The Permian Basin of West Texas & New Mexico: The Jewel in the Crown of America's Oil & Gas

Friday, October 19, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101

Poking Holes in Hypotheses: A Critical Reappraisal of Microbial Dolomitization

Dr. Steve Kaczmarek, Western Michigan University

Friday, October 26, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101

Mass Extinctions, Oceanic Anoxic Events, and Major Paleoenvironmental Changes in the Early Jurassic

Dr. Rowan Martindale, University of Texas

Friday, November 9, 2018
11:30AM-12:30PM
HALB 101