JSG and AAPG 2007

JSG will be at the 2007 AAPG Annual Meeting!

JSG will be represented at AAPG's 2007 Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California, April 1-4, 2007, by members of its staff, students, and alumni.

Visit th e JSG Booth #949! Friends, alumni, join us for a reception, Monday (April 2) evening.

Michelle Foss will be part of the panel chaired by Don Juckett at the Theme 11 general session, "Beyond the Science: Geopolitics and the Energy Industry," on Wednesday morning (10:05 a.m, Grand Ballroom A).

Peter Eichhubl will be co-chair of the session, "Faults as Seals and Flow Conduits: Fundamental Processes, Predictions, and Applications" poster session (Tuesday afternoon) and oral session (Wednesday afternoon).

Authors(s)	Title	Session	Date/Time
Monday Talks
X. Janson, H. Zeng, C. Kerans, F. Wang, S. Fomel	Using Outcrop-Based 3D Geocellular Model as Seismic Benchmark: Prestack Seismic Modeling of Grainstones in Lawyer Canyon (Permian) Outcrop,Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico	Rock Physics: Key to Formation Evaluation and Seismic Attributes Room 201	Monday 10:05 a.m.
Nordfjord, S., Escalona, A., Mann, P., and Galloway, W.	Linking Tectonic and Sedimentary Events in the Northern Caribbean and Southern Gulf of Mexico	Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation Room 102	Monday 11:25 a.m.
D. Pyles, M. Tomasso, D. C. Jennette, R. T. Beaubouef, C. R. Rossen	The Role of Secondary Flow on Facies Associations and Stratigraphic Architecture in Sinuous Slope Channels: Concepts learned from a 3D exposure of a Sinuous Slope Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas	Processes and Modeling of Deep-Water Flows I Room 103	Monday 11:25 a.m.
Mann, P., Horn, M.K., and Cross, I.	Emerging Trends from 69 Giant Oil and Gas Fields Discovered from 2000-2006	Searching for Success: New Areas, Concepts and Challenges Room Grand Ballroom - A	Monday 01:20 p.m.
P. Montoya, M. R. Hudec	Active Salt Tectonics and Its Effect on the Internal Architecture and Connectivity Between Minibasins Near the Sigsbee Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico	Effects of Active Structural Growth and Confined Basins on Sandbody Architecture Room 202	Monday 01:20 p.m.
M. Tomasso, D. R. Pyles, F. L. Bonnaffé, D. C. Jennette	3D Geological and Seismic Forward Modeling of a Sinuous Slope Channel Complex, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas	New Approaches to Reservoir Characterization and Modeling II Room 104-C	Monday 01:40 p.m.
J. L. Aschoff* and R. J. Steel	Tectonic Signatures in Stratigraphy: What Are They, and How Do We Best Apply Them?	Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation: Recognizing the Contributions of John Crowell II Room 102	Monday 2:20 p.m.
R. Bouroullec, M. Tomasso, D. R. Pyles, K. Lee	Stratigraphy of an Interbasinal Deep-Water Conduit: Lessons Learned from the Grand Coyer Sub-Basin, Eocene-Oligocene Grès d’Annot Sandstone, SE France	Effects of Active Structural Growth and Confined Basins on Sandbody Architecture Room 202	Monday 03:40 p.m.
Monday Morning Posters
Contreras, D.R.**, Mann, P., Escalona, A., and Nuñez, M.	Structure, stratigraphy, and gas potential of the northwestern Eocene Maracaibo foreland basin, western Venezuela	Selected Academic Research Topics: AAPG Student Presentations Promenade Lobby	Monday 8:00 - 12:00 POSTER
Vence, E.M.**, Escalona, A., and Mann, P.	Along-Strike Continuity of Caribbean Tectonic Terranes and Their Controls on Source and Reservoir Rocks Offshore Colombia and Venezuela	Selected Academic Research Topics: AAPG Student Presentations Promenade Lobby	Monday 8:00 - 12:00 POSTER
R. Bouroullec, D. R. Pyles, D. E. Schwartz, D. C. Jennette, F. Bonnaffé	Impact of Local Accommodation on the Architecture and Stacking Patterns of Three Capistrano Formation Slope Channel Outcrops: San Clemente, Dana Point Harbor and Point Fermin, California	Understanding Slope Processes I Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 8:30 a.m. - 12 Noon POSTER.
U. Hammes, H. Zeng, R. Loucks, F. Brown	All Fill - No Spill: Slope-Fan Sand Bodies	Effects of Active Structural Growth and Confined Basins on Sandbody Architecture I Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 8:30 - 12:00 POSTER
El-Mowafy, H.Z., Mann, P., and Escalona, A.	Hydrocarbon Potential of the Aruba and Western Curacao Basins, Offshore Venezuela	Effects of Active Structural Growth and Confined Basins on Sandbody Architecture I Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 8:30 - 12:00 POSTER
M. Tomasso, R. Bouroullec, K. Lee, and D. R. Pyles	Stratigraphic Architecture of Early Channel-Fill within an Interbasinal Conduit: Grand Coyer, Grès d'Annot Formation, SE France	Effects of Active Structural Growth and Confined Basins on Sandbody Architecture II Room Arena Concouse & Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 8:30 - 12:00 POSTER
Monday Afternoon Posters
Bingham, L., Escalona, A., and Mann, P.	Building an Integrated, Digital Database Using HTML and GIS Tools: A Case Study for the Northern South American Petroleum Province	New Tools and Technology for Basin Analysis II Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 1:15 - 5:00 p.m. POSTER
N. A. N. Chaderton, L. Wood	Morphologic Architecture of a Coarse- Grained Turbidite: An Outcrop Study of the Scotland Formation, Barbados, West Indies	Architectural Elements: Modern and Outcrop Analogs for Modeling Reservoirs II Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 1:15 - 5:00 p.m. POSTER
Escalona, A., Mann, P., Lavier, L.	Kinematic Model Linking Basin Subsidence and Fault Evolution Along the Obliquely Convergent South America-Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone	New Tools and Technology for Basin Analysis II Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 1:15 - 5:00 p.m. POSTER
K. Lee, R. Bouroullec, M. Tomasso, and W. A. Ambrose	Integration of ground penetrating radar with conventional stratigraphic and lidar data to investigate the three-dimensional geometry of a tidal-inlet reservoir analog, Upper Ferron Sandstone, Utah	Architectural Elements: Modern and Outcrop Analogs for Modeling Reservoirs I Room Arena Concourse & Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 1:15 - 5:00 p.m. POSTER
Loucks, R.G. and Dutton, S.P.	Importance of Micropores in Deeply Buried Tertiary Sandstones Along the Texas Gulf Coast	From Pore to Prospect to Play: Predicting Sandstone Reservoir Quality Room Arena Concourse & Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 1:15 - 5:00 p.m. POSTER
J.A. Maher, L. Wood	Architecture and Seismic Geomorphology of Shelf-edge Deltas Along an Active Tectonic Margin: Eastern Offshore Trinidad and Venezuela	Architectural Elements: Modern and Outcrop Analogs for Modeling Reservoirs II Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Monday 1:15 - 5:00 p.m. POSTER
Tuesday Talks
W. A. Ambrose	Near- to Mid-Term Energy Mineral Sources: Bridging the Future to Alternative Energy	Alternative Energy Sources: Promises and Pitfalls Room 104-B	Tuesday 08:05 a.m.
E. J. Barron	Is It Time for a Rebirth in The Geologic Application of Climate Models?	Deep Time Climates: Their Relevance to Climate Change and Value to Petroleum Exploration Room 102	Tuesday 08:05 a.m.
F. J. Lucia	Predicting Petrophysical Properties Based on Conformance between Diagenetic Products and Depositional Textures	Carbonate Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality Prediction Room 104-A	Tuesday 08:05 a.m.
S. E. Laubach and Meghan E. Ward**	Structural Complexity in Structurally Simple Fractured Reservoir Analogs	Improved Understanding of Fractured Reservoirs, Quantification, and Modeling Room 201	Tuesday 9:25 a.m.
X. Janson, T. Simo, S. Nardon	3D Modeling of (Visean-Serpukhovian) Mississippian Mounds, Indian Wells, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico	Architectural Elements: Modern and Outcrop Analogs for Modeling Reservoirs I Room 104-C	Tuesday 10:45 a.m.
T. Manzocchi, J. J. Walsh, M. Tomasso, J. Strand, C. Childs, and P. D. W. Haughton	The role of faults in turbidite compartmentalization at the bed-scale	Reservoir connectivity: Key to successful development Room 103	Tuesday 10:45 a.m.
C. Kerans, P. Harris	Devonian Reefal Platforms of the Canning Basin - Lessons Learned and Value as Analogs	50 Years of Research on the Devonian Reef Complexes of Western Australia: Implications for Interpreting Carbonate Systems Worldwide Room 104-A	Tuesday 01:20 p.m.
L. Gomez^*, R. Marrett	Diagenetic Controls on Spatial Arrangement of Fractures: an Example from the Cupido Fm., Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico	Subseismic Fault and Fracture Prediction Room 103	Tuesday 01:20 p.m.
R. G. Loucks, S. C. Ruppel	Mississippian Barnett Shale: Lithofacies and Depositional Setting of a Deepwater Mudstone Succession	Mudrock Facies Models: Sources, Seals and Reservoirs Room 102	Tuesday 01:40 p.m.
Ruarri J. Day-Stirrat, Andrew C. Aplin, S, Ben E. Van der Pluijm, and Jan Srodon	Reorientation Mechanisms of Phyllosilicate Minerals in Mudstones: Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, and Podhale Basin	Mudrock Facies Models: Sources, Seals and Reservoirs Room 102	Tuesday 02:40 p.m.
N. Frost*	Geologic Modeling of Frasnian and Famennian Carbonate Platforms, Canning Basin, Western Australia	50 Years of Research on the Devonian Reef Complexes of Western Australia: Implications for Interpreting Carbonate Systems Worldwide Room 104-A	Tuesday 02:40 p.m.
A. J. Contreras, T. V. Carlos, W. L. Fisher, W. E. Galloway	Geomorphologic Delineation of Deepwater Hydrocarbon Reservoirs with Pre-Stack Seismic Inversion	Seismic Stratigraphy in the 21st Century Room 104-B	Tuesday 03:20 p.m.
T. E. Playton*, C. Kerans, P. E. Playford	Contrasting Upper Devonian Foreslopes of the Canning Basin: Examples From Retrograding Frasnian and Prograding Famennian Platform Flanks	50 Years of Research on the Devonian Reef Complexes of Western Australia: Implications for Interpreting Carbonate Systems Worldwide Room 104-A	Tuesday 03:20 p.m.
N. Frost, L. Gomez	Syndepositional Fracture Patterns of the Devonian Reef Complexes, Canning Basin, Western Australia	50 Years of Research on the Devonian Reef Complexes of Western Australia: Implications for Interpreting Carbonate Systems Worldwide Room 104-A	Tuesday 04:00 p.m.
Tuesday Morning Posters
J. W. Bishop, D. Y. Sumner, D. A. Osleger, I. Montanez, and S. W. Tinker	δ¹³C and δ¹⁸C enrichment near cycle tops and sequence boundaries in the Capitan backreef, McKittrick and Slaughter Canyons	SEPM Student Awards Poster Session Room Promenade Lobby	Tuesday 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
J.F.W. Gale, J. Holder, R. Reed	Natural Fractures in the Barnett Shale: Why They Are Important	Shale Gas (EMD) Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 12 Noon POSTER
G. Huggins** and R. J. Steel	The Facies Architecture of Manzanilla Formation, Trinidad	SEPM Student Awards Poster Session Room Promenade Lobby	Tuesday 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
A. Ozkan*, E. F. McBride	Diagenesis and Porosity Evolution of the Flathead Sandstone (Middle Cambrian), Wyoming and Montana	SEPM Student Awards Poster Session Room Promenade Lobby	Tuesday 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
R. Reed, R. Loucks	Imaging Nanoscale Pores in the Mississippian Barnett Shale of the Northern Fort Worth Basin	Shale Gas (EMD) Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 12 Noon POSTER
Santiago, N., Parra, K., and Steel, R.	Tectonic Generation of Early Miocene Transgressive Fill of the Eastern Venezuela Basin (Maturín Sub-Basin)	Shallow Marine to Non-Marine Depositional Systems Room Arena Concourse Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 8:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
B. A. Stanley*, J. L. Aschoff	Recognition and Significance of Bay-Head Delta Deposits in the Rock Record: Constructing More Detailed Estuarine Facies Models	Shallow Marine to Non-Marine Depositional Systems Room Arena Concourse Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 8:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Uroza, C.A.** and Steel, R.	Process Change from the Inner to Outer Reaches of the Western Interior Clastic Platform: Examples from SW Wyoming, USA	Shallow Marine to Non-Marine Depositional Systems Room Arena Concourse Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 8:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
S. Yoshida, R. J. Steel, R. Dalrymple, J. MacEachern, K. Bann	Interpretation of Bounding Surfaces within Tidal Deposits: How Much Can We Reduce the “Fog Index”?	Shallow Marine to Non-Marine Depositional Systems I Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 12 Noon POSTER
Hanzlik-Valentín, M.**, Mann, P., Escalona, A., Grindlay, N., and Abrams	Reconstructing Paleogeography and Sea-level History of Western Puerto Rico Using High-resolution 2D Seismic Profiles	Shallow Marine to Non-Marine Depositional Systems I Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon POSTER
Tuesday Afternoon Posters
M. Appold, Grant Garven, James R. Boles, and P. Eichhubl	Numerical Modeling Analysis of the Role of Episodic Fault Overpressuring and Rupture in Methane Transport and Massive Calcite Cementation in the Santa Barbara Basin, California	Faults as Seals and Flow Conduits: Fundamental Processes, Predictions, and Applications Room Arena Concourse & Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 1:15-5:15 p.m. POSTER
Gomez, C.A. and Steel, R.	Tidal channel to bayhead delta couplets: key to 4th order proximal sequence identification and correlation, Upper Iles Formation, Colorado	Applications of Quantitative Geomorphology to Subsurface Problems: Quantitative Comparison of Tributary and Distributary Systems in Subareal and Submarine Environments Room Arena Concourse & Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 1:15-5:15 p.m. POSTER
C. Olariu and R. J. Steel	Distribution of Hyperpycnal Deposits in the Delta Front of Cretaceous Panther Tongue Delta, Utah, USA	Processes and Modeling of Deep-Water Flows Room Arena Concourse & Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 1:15-5:15
A. L. Petter*, P. Plink-Bjorklund, R. Steel	Hyperpycnal-Flow Evolution from the Shelf Edge to the Lower Slope as Evidenced by Slope-Channel Deposits in the Tertiary Central Basin of Spitsbergen	Processes and Modeling of Deep-Water Flows Room Arena Concourse & Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 1:15-5:15 p.m.
R. H. Treviño, R. G. Loucks, J. Gale, A. K. Abdelmoniem**	Integration of Core, Image-Log and Wireline-Log Data Extends Facies Interpretations in the Upper Cretaceous Olmos Formation of South Texas	New Approaches to Reservoir Characterization and Modeling II Arena Concourse and Arena Lobby via Exhibition Hall	Tuesday 1:15 - 5:00 p.m. POSTER
Wednesday Talks
J. M. Ketzer, R. Steel, L. Kiteley, C. Vasconcelos	Carbonate Cementation along Marine Flooding Surfaces of the Mesa Verde Group (Upper Cretaceous), Wyoming and Colorado: Implications for Sandstone Reservoir Quality Prediction	From Pore to Prospect to Play: Predicting Sandstone Reservoir Quality Room 201	Wednesday 8:05 a.m.
Mark G. Rowan, Randall Marrett, Samuel Eguiluz de Antuñano, Timothy F. Lawton, and Mario Aranda-Garcia	The Roles of Basement Architecture and Salt Distribution in the Sierra Madre Oriental Fold-and-Thrust Belt and its Foreland Basin, Northeastern Mexico	Folds and Thrust Belts: New Concepts, Methods and Tools Room 102	Wednesday 8:05 a.m.
S. P. Dutton, R. G. Loucks	Reservoir Quality and Pore-Type Evolution in Deep to Ultradeep Tertiary Sandstones of the Northern Texas Gulf of Mexico Coast	From Pore to Prospect to Play: Predicting Sandstone Reservoir Quality Room 201	Wednesday 9:45 a.m.
S. C. Ruppel, R. G. Loucks, W. R. Wright, J. A. Kane, F. P. Wang	Similarities and Contrasts Among Major Paleozoic Shale Gas Reservoir Plays in Texas and New Mexico	Shale Gas (EMD) Room 104-A	Wednesday 10:05 a.m.
P. Eichhubl	Compaction Localization—Rule or Exception During Sandstone Burial?	From Pore to Prospect to Play: Predicting Sandstone Reservoir Quality Room 201	Wednesday 10:45 a.m.
R. Bouroullec, D. R. Pyles, D. C. Jennette, M. Tomasso	Stratigraphic Architecture and Evolution of a Meandering Slope Channel Complex, Capistrano Formation, San Clemente, California	Deep-Water Sandstones: In Honor of Tor Nilsen Room Grand Ballroom - A	Wednesday 2:20 p.m.
Castellanos, H.A.^* and Mann, P.	Regional Tectonic Controls on Reservoir and Seal Quality of Mio-Pliocene Fluvial-Channel Sandstones, Bohai Basin, Eastern China	Shallow Marine to Non-Marine DepositionalSystems II Room 104-B	Wednesday 2:20 p.m.
J. J. Walsh, C. Childs, T. Manzocchi, J. Strand, A. Nicol, M. Tomasso, and M. Schöpfer	Definition of a fault permeability predictor from outcrop studies of a faulted sand/clay sequence, Taranaki, New Zealand	Faults as Seals and Flow Conduits: Fundamental Processes, Predictions, and Applications Room 104-A	Wednesday 2:20 p.m.
T. F. Hentz, E. C. Potter, and M. A. Adedeji	Reservoir-Scale Depositional Facies, Trends, and Controls on Sandstone Distribution of the Lower Atoka Group ("Bend Conglomerate"), Fort Worth Basin, Texas	Shallow Marine to Non-Marine Depositional Systems II Room 104-B	Wednesday 2:40 p.m.
C. R. Carvajal*, R. Steel	Highstand Sandy Deepwater Fans: Incorporating Sediment Supply, Sea Level and Basin Architecture into The Prediction of Sand Bypass to The Basin Floor	Deep-Water Sandstones: In Honor of Tor Nilsen Room Grand Ballroom-A	Wednesday 4:40 p.m.

* PhD Student
** Master's Student
*** Undergraduate Student