The 25th Annual Robert E. Sheriff Lecture November 13 at the Norris Center
A thrilling Night of Discovery Co hosted by HGS and the University of Houston Earth Science Department.
Monday, November 13
Norris Conference Center • 816 Town and Country Blvd #210
Social Hour 5:30–6:30 PM
Poster Session - University of Houston Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences will host a student poster session 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Professional Judges needed.
Contact Linda Sternbach if you want to be a judge for the student posters.
Dinner 6:30–7:30 PM, Presentations 7:30- 9:00 PM
register on the HGS website https://www.hgs.org/civicrm/event/info?id=2477
Learn about University of Houston geoscience program with Dr. Tom Lapin, Department Chair, Dr Robert Stewart and Dr Paul Mann.
After their introduction the night will feature TWO presentations:
Twenty Years of Exploration and Discoveries Using Airborne Laser Mapping: Contributions to the Archaeology of North and Central America.
Dr. Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, University of Houston
The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), the University of Houston (UH), and collaborators are making exciting discoveries of hidden surface features using drones and airborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR) methods. LIDAR can map 3-dimensional forms of the ground and archaeological sites by penetrating vegetation. Our first speaker is Dr. Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, Research Assistant Professor at UH, and Co-Investigator for NCALM. He and partners have discovered a lost Maya city deep in the jungles of Campeche, on the Yucatan Peninsula, in Mexico. Among the findings were several 50-foot-tall pyramid-like structures that date the city to the Late Classic period, between the years 600 and 800 AD
Second presentation
The Habitat of Giant Fields in the Gulf of Mexico: Geology, Geophysics, Digital Technology: Are There More Giants to be Found?
Dr. Charles Sternbach, Star Creek Energy & University of Houston and Richard S. Bishop
The US and Mexico's Onshore and Offshore Gulf Coast basins have long been proving grounds for discovering giant oil and gas fields. This province boasts prolific Cenozoic and Mesozoic petroleum systems and an extensive infrastructure that makes this collection of Super Basins also an economically "Advantaged Basin." This talk will explore examples of widely differing giant fields and discuss the technology and insights that might enable us to find more oil resources.
