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January 24, 2020

Expanded Portfolio Brings New Relevance to Long-Running Gulf-Basin Program

By Constantino Panagopulos For 25 years, an industry-sponsored research project led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), has provided its members with a depositional history of the offshore northern Gulf of Mexico. Now for the first time, UTIG’s Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) program, will offer its members analysis of the entire… Continue Reading Expanded Portfolio Brings New Relevance to Long-Running Gulf-Basin Program

Filed Under: energy-slideshow, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: Energy, GBDS, Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis, Gulf of Mexico, John Snedden, Zach Sickmann

January 16, 2019

Long-Running Gulf Basin Program Ready for New Exploration Upturn

By Constantino Panagopulos It is December, 2018, and Repsol has just signed to rejoin the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) program, an industry-supported study of the Gulf of Mexico spearheaded by The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG). Program director John Snedden knows that the Spanish energy giant’s return to GBDS not only marks… Continue Reading Long-Running Gulf Basin Program Ready for New Exploration Upturn

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: GBDS

December 1, 2017

Student Profile: Mario Gutierrez

UTIG Master’s student Mario Gutierrez was recently awarded an Endowed Presidential Scholarship by the Michael Duchin Endowment. We caught up with Mario to learn about his work and studies here at UTIG. Degree Program: Master’s in Geological Sciences, anticipated graduation date: May 2018 What are you studying? My thesis topic focuses on Lithologic Calibration of Neogene Mass Transportation… Continue Reading Student Profile: Mario Gutierrez

Filed Under: energy-slideshow, homepage-news, Meet the UTIG Student, News Tagged With: Energy, GBDS, student profile

January 15, 2016

Celebrating 20 Years of Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis

With the endowment of the Richard T. Buffler postdoctoral fellowship, the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis project celebrates 20 years of continuous funding. Continue Reading Celebrating 20 Years of Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis

Filed Under: News Tagged With: GBDS, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico

November 9, 2015

Chris Lowery: UTIG’s first ever Richard T. Buffler postdoctoral fellow

Chris Lowery writing field notes in Hays, Kansas

Chris Lowery turned his love of the outdoors into a career. As a postdoctoral fellow he’s helping define UTIG’s presence in the Gulf of Mexico. Continue Reading Chris Lowery: UTIG’s first ever Richard T. Buffler postdoctoral fellow

Filed Under: News Tagged With: biostratigraphy, GBDS, Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis, Gulf of Mexico, micropaleontology, postdoctoral fellow

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