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Calendar of 2017 Events |
| June 13, 2017 – Joe Nahama, President, PetroRock LLC “The Wildcatters, the Regulators and the Prize: Chronicles of the Cat Canyon Oil Field, Santa Barbara County, CA |
| May 21-24, 2017 – Pacific Section AAPG Annual Convention Anchorage, Alaska |
| May 9, 2017 – Mike Clark, Aera Energy “The Lower Brown Shale of South Lost Hills: An Example of a Diagenetic Trap“ |
| April 28, 2017 – Jan Gillespie, USGS “Mapping Protected Aquifers in Kern County“ |
| April 2-5, 2017 – AAPG National Convention Houston, Texas |
| March 14, 2017 – Bill Bartling, Deputy, Inland District DOGGR “Organizational Renewal Plan and Update on Regulatory Progress and Impacts“ |
| February 14, 2017 – SPOUSE NIGHT – Michael Simms, University of California at Santa Barbara “Tectonics and the California Coast“ |
| January 10, 2017 – Robert Mellors, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory “Geophysical studies at the NNSS (formerly NTS)“ |
Calendar of 2016 Events |
| December 13, 2016 – Dan Schwartz – AAPG Vice-President, Sections “What will make the AAPG relevant to you?“
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| November 8, 2016 – Rick Schrynemeeckers, Amplified Geochemical Imaging, LLC “Increasing Production in Mature Fields While Reducing Costs“
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| October 11, 2016 – Yannick Wirtz, California State University at Long Beach “Apparent and Actual Strain Variation in the Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, Southern Santa Maria Basin, California: Implication for Cross-Section Construction and Reservoir Characterization“
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| October 2-5, 2016 – Pacific Section AAPG Annual Convention Las Vegas, Nevada
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| September 16, 2016 – SJGS Annual Barbecue & Golf Tournament Sundale Country Club
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| June 19-22, 2016 – AAPG National Convention Calgary, Canada
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| June 13, 2016 – Rob Negrini, California State University at Bakersfield “A History of the Geological Sciences at CSU Bakersfield“
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| May 10, 2016 – Jonathan R. Rotzien, Basin Dynamics, LLC “Application of global deep-water outcrop belts to exploration and field extension in Ventura Basin, California“
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| April 12, 2016 – Malcolm E. Allan and Simarjit K. Chehal; Aera Energy, LLC “The Belridge Giant Oil Field – 100 Years of History and a Look to a Bright Future“
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| March 15, 2016 – Tom Howard, PayZone Inc “Some Perspectives on Electrical Borehole Image Logs for the End User“
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| February 9, 2016 – SPOUSE NIGHT – Sam Jameson, William “Chris” Krugh, Rob Negrini – California State University at Bakersfield “El Niño and Kern County: Past, Present (and Future?)“
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| January 12, 2016 – John Wakabayashi, California State University at Fresno “Non-accretionary Versus Accretionary Megathrust Slip Accommodation at Depths of ~15 to 30 km: Two styles of Strain Localization“
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Calendar of 2012 Events |
| December 11, 2012 – Anne Grau & Rob Sterling, Cirque Resources “Characterization of the Bakken System of the Williston Basin from Pores to Production“
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| November 13, 2012 – Christopher J. Pluhar – California State University, Fresno “Crustal Block Rotations in Transtensional Basins and Transpressional Zones – Inhomogeneity and Evolution with Time“
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| October 9, 2012 – William Chris Krugh – Californis Syaye University, Bakersfield “Geomorphic and Isotopic Constraints on the Evolution of Mountain Belts“
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| June 12, 2012 – Greg Gordon, Colorado School of Mines “Ongoing tectono-stratigraphic research on the Modelo Fm in the Ventura Basin and examples from Ainsa Basin in Spain“
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| May 8, 2012 – Bob Stupp & Ingvar Alarik, Oxy “Re-Discovering California: The Gunslinger Discovery and The Monterey Formation in the San Joaquin Basin”
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| April 22-25, 2012 – AAPG National Convention Long Beach, California (No Pacific Section AAPG Convention was held this year)
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| April 10, 2012 – CSUB Student Research Night
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| March 30, 2012 – Rod Graham, Cambridge University “Exploration in Fold and Thrust Belts – A Personal Perspective”
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| March 21, 2012 – Don Paul, USC (retired Chevron) “Global Energy Trends”
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| March 13, 2012 – Plamen Ganev, Aera Energy “Neotectonics of the Eastern California Shear Zone”
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| February 14, 2012 – SPOUSE NIGHT – Tim Cleath, Cleath-Harris Geologists, San Luis Obispo “Wine and Geology of Paso Robles Area“
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| January 25, 2012 – Rusty Riese, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer “Oil Spills, ethics, and society: how they intersect and where the responsibilities reside” (view the slides from this talk)
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| January 10, 2012 – Greg Hummel “Cat Canyon Oil Field; raising a nearly dead cat to life again!“
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Calendar of 2011 Events |
| December 13, 2011 – Malcolm Allan & Joseph Lalicata “The Belridge Giant Oil Field – 100 Years of History and a Look to a Bright Future“
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| November 18, 2011 – Heidi Hoffower & Jerry McNaboe “Applying Improved Methodology to Produce Kern River’s Remaining 1.5 Billion Barrels“
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| October 11, 2011 – Brigette Martini “The geothermal renaissance: modern exploration and development in the western United States“
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| October 4, 2011 – Satinder Chopra “Seismic detection of faults and fractures“
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| September 22, 2011 – Matthew Telfer “Energy trends of the future”
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| September 2011 – SJGS Barbecue & Golf Tournament Golf Tournament Results
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| June 14, 2011 – Dr. John Wakabayashi, California State University, Fresno “Franciscan Complex melanges: Diverse structural setting, evidence for sedimentary origins, and connections to large-scale material movement at a convergent plate margin“
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| May 10, 2011 – Tim McHargue, Chevron (retired) “Predictive Patterns of Slope Channel Architecture“
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| May 8-11, 2011 – Pacific Section AAPG Annual Convention Anchorage, Alaska
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| April 12, 2011 – Dr. Tanya Atwater, University of California, Santa Barbara “Cretaceous-Cenozoic Plate Tectonics in the Western U.S. and what it tells us about the geological evolution of California“
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| April 10-13, 2011 – AAPG National Convention Houston, Texas
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| April 1, 2011 – Senteur de Boue, Cressy and Associates “Mantle Degassing: A Possible Hydrocarbon Source in Regions of Anomalous Uplift“ A Special Event
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| March 8, 2011 – Vicki Langenheim, United States Geological Survey “Unraveling the Structural Knot in the Southern San Andreas Fault“
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| February 8, 2011 – SPOUSE NIGHT – Paul Hacker (Tri-Valley) & Greg Hummel “Million Steps Over 5 Billion Years, The Geology of the Pacific Crest Trail“
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| January 11, 2011 – Rick Behl, California State University, Long Beach “The Monterey Formation: for the next stage – what do we need to understand?“
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Calendar of 2010 Events |
| December 14, 2010 – (1) Gary Henley II; (2) Courtney Marshall “(1) Wheeler Ridge: Stratigraphic and Structural Review; (2) Sedimentation in an Active Fold and Thrust Belt, Santa Barbara Basin, CA: Spatial and Temporal Evolution from 1.0 Ma to Present“
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| November 9, 2010 – Dr. Charlie Paull, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute “Tracking sediment movements within Monterey Canyon from the shoreline to the fan“
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| November 1, 2010 – Ron Boyd, A ibe-wat ticket from Antartica to the Tasman Plain via the Great Barrier Reef – Sediment dispersal on the Eastern Australian Margin “Tracing the Origins of Crude Oil in the San Joaquin Basin and Coastal California“
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| October 12, 2010 – Dr. Ken Peters, Schlumberger “Tracing the Origins of Crude Oil in the San Joaquin Basin and Coastal California“
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| September 2010 – SJGS Barbecue & Golf Tournament Golf Tournament Results
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| June 8, 2010 – Diane Clemens-Knott, Ph.D., Dept. of Geological Sciences, Cal State Fullerton “The Goldstein Peak unit (western Sierra Nevada batholith): Exploring possible ties between California’s first (?) nonmarine sediments and the Great Valley Sequence“
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| May 27-29, 2010 – PSAAPG-Cordilleran GSA Convention Anaheim, California
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| May 11, 2010 – CSUB Bakersfield Student Showcase “Talks by Sarah Schindler and Dan McCuan”
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| April 11-14, 2010 – AAPG National Convention New Orleans, Louisiana
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| April 13, 2010 – Wallace Kleck, PhD, CSUB “Cenozoic History of the Kern River“
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| March 9, 2010 – Larry D. Gurrola, Duane E. DeVecchio, Edward A. Keller, Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara “Rincon Mountain Megaslide: La Conchita, Ventura County, California“
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| February 9, 2010 – SPOUSE NIGHT – Dirk Baron and Rob Negrini, California State Univ. at Bakersfield “To the Proterozoic and back: A 21-day float trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon: or Dirk and Rob’s Excellent Adventure“
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| January 12, 2010 – Tim Elam, Chevron “The Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed- A Kern County Paleontologic Treasure“ |
Calendar of 2008 Events |
| December 9, 2008 – Dr. Doug Yule, Calif. State Univ, Northridge “Great Earthquakes of the San Andreas Fault“
November 20, 2008 – AAPG Distinguished Lecturer – Jim Jennings “A Geologist’s Introduction to Permeability Averaging and the Effects of Scale on the Permeability of Heterogeneous Rocks“ November 18, 2008 – Two Talks – Malcolm Allan & Stan Stearns “The Belridge Giant Oil Field: It keeps going and going … and Elk Hills Field Overview: Its Past, Present and Future“ October 29, 2008 – AAPG Distinguished Lecturer – Charles Feazel “North Sea Chalk: 40 Years of Production at Ekofisk Field from a Rock Some Said Would Never Flow Oil“ October 14, 2008 – Scott Hector, Paul Graham Drill Company “California Exploration: 1998-2008” September 12, 2008 – SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbecue Pioneer Village at the Kern County Museum June 10, 2008 – Scott T. Hector “Subsurface Characterization of the Potrero-Ryer Island Thrust System, Western Sacaramento-San Joaquin Delta, Northern California“ May 13, 2008 – CSUB Student Poster Night “Several posters and a couple of talks from CSUB Geology students” April 20-23, 2008 – AAPG National Convention San Antonio, Texas April 8, 2008 – No SJGS Meeting scheduled due to Pacific Section Convention in Bakersfield March 29–April 2, 2008 – Pacific Section AAPG Annual Convention Bakersfield, California March 11, 2008 – Stephen Hickman, USGS Earthquake Hazards Team “Structure and Properties of the San Andreas Fault at Seismogenic Depths: Recent Results from the SAFOD Experiment“ February 12, 2008 – SPOUSE NIGHT – Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory “The NASA DESDynI Mission – Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice“ January 8, 2008 – Stanley Stearns & Robert Dockweiler, Oxy of Elk Hills “New Pool Definition, Delineation and Development: The P5 Reservoir, Safah Field, Oman“ |
Calendar of 2007 Events |
| December 11, 2007 – Gene Fritsche, CSU-Northridge “Into The Bowels of Hades: Investigating an Early Miocene Tilted Volcano in the Santa Monica Mountains“
November 13, 2007 – Ronn Rose, Army Corps of Engineers “Lake Isabella Dam Study“ October 9, 2007 – Jon Schwalbach, Aera Energy LLC “Stratigraphic and Structural Controls on Fracture Distributions: Examples from California Basins“ October 3, 2007 – AAPG Distinguished Lecturer – Dr. Jon Olson “A Geologist’s Guide To Explaining Natural Fracture Phenomena with Fracture Mechanics“ September 7, 2007 – SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbecue Pioneer Village on the Kern County Museum grounds June 12, 2007 – Tom Hopps, Rancho Energy Consultants “Geologic Overview of Ventura Basin Oilfields Operated by Vintage Production California, LLC“ May 8, 2007 – James Blink “An Overview of the Yucca Mountain Repository Setting and Performance“ April 25, 2007 – Bruce Banerdt, JPL Project Scientist “The JPL Mars Rover“ April 10, 2007 No SJGS Meeting due to AAPG Convention April 1-4, 2007 – AAPG National Convention Long Beach, California (No Pacific Section AAPG Convention was held this year) March 13, 2007 – Hilario Camacho, Signal Hill Petroleum “Evidence for generation and migration of hydrocarbons along thermally anomalous faults in the Los Angeles basin, California, USA“ February 21, 2007 – Tom Walker “Oil Price Forecasting“ February 13, 2007 – SPOUSE NIGHT – Doris Sloan and John Karachewski “Highlights of San Francisco Bay Area Geology“ January 9, 2007 – Tim Elam, Chevron “Gold in Kern County“ |
Calendar of 2006 Events |
| December 12, 2006 – Staci L. Loewy, CSUB “Reconstructing Supercontinents: Connecting the Pieces of the Puzzle“
November 14, 2006 – Dr. James Boles, U.C. Santa Barbara “Methane seepage along faults in the Santa Barbara coastal area, California: geologic and modern evidence“ October 10, 2006 – Staffan Van Dyke “Fine-scale 3D Architectural Model of a Submarine Channel Complex onto a High-Resolution Seismic Image“ September 8, 2006 – SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbeque at Pioneer Village on the Kern County Museum grounds June 13, 2006 – David Crane, Aera Energy “Geologic Reconnaissance of the Homestead and Yucca Valley region, SW Mohave Desert; A study in erosion and deposition by Pleistocene glacier outflow“ May 9, 2006 – Student Poster Night and Sohia Cubos, Oxy “Sequence Stratigraphy of the Etchegoin Formation at Elk Hills” May 7-11, 2006 – Pacific Section AAPG Annual Convention Anchorage, Alaska April 26, 2006 – Dr. Jason Saleeby, Cal Tech “A model for the three-stage development of Sierra Nevada geomorphology and its relationship with the San Joaquin Basin“ April 11, 2006 – Tom Redin, consultant “Santa Barbara Channel Structure and Correlation Sections Project, Santa Ynez Mountains to the Channel Islands, Western Transverse Ranges, CA“ April 9-12, 2006 – AAPG National Convention Houston, Texas March 14, 2006 – Pete Rose, AAPG President “Estimating oil and gas reserves: We have met the enemy, and he is us” February 14, 2006 – SPOUSE NIGHT – Chris Schneider “Echinoid surprise” January 10, 2006 Bob Liske, Aera Energy “DOE Project: Treatment of oil-field produced water for beneficial re-use” |
Calendar of 2005 Events |
| December 13, 2005 – Bruce Laverty, Plains Exploration & Production “Hopkins Fee – Producing Oil on the Tulare fringe of South Belridge Field”
November 10, 2005 – Scott Tinker, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer “The “I” in BusIness EthIcs (Joint BAPL-SJGS Luncheon)” November 8, 2005 – Ron Crane “Geology of Mount Diablo” October 11, 2005 – Roger Slatt, University of Oklahoma “Scales of heterogeneity of sandstone reservoirs: What every geologist knows and geophysicists and engineers should know” September 9, 2005 – SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbecue Pioneer Village on the Kern County Museum grounds June 19-22, 2005 – AAPG National Convention Calgary, Canada June 14, 2005 – Gene Fritsche, Cal State Northridge “Discovering geology in Morocco and Mongolia” May 10, 2005 – John Howe, Archer Petroleum “Geology of the North Franklin area, Sacramento Basin” April 29 – May 1, 2005 – Pacific Section AAPG APG Annual Convention San Jose, California April, 12 2005 – Pete Dillet and Fred Bair, Chevron “Heavy oil operations at Cymric: Production of Tulare and Antelope” March, 8 2005 – Mark Kamerling, Venoco “South Elwood oil field: Results of new technology and ideas” February, 8 2005 – SPOUSE NIGHT – Jim Moore “Clarence King and the lure of Mt. Shasta“ January, 11 2005 – Stuart Gordon, Oxy Resources California “Petroleum geoscience of of Oxy’s southern San Joaquin Valley fee acreage” |