Annual Report 2015. Digital Download

AR2015D. Annual Report of the Bureau of Economic Geology, 2015. 45 p. Downloadable PDF.  For a paper version, please order AR2015.


CONTENTS
A Letter from the Director
Adapting to Challenging Cycles
     Thriving in a Down Cycle
     Focus on Future Technologies
Highlights
     GeoFORCE Winds Presidential Award, Inspires Bureau Scientist [with group photo of Doug Ratcliff, Sam Moore, President Obama, and others]
     Join Our LinkedIn Group!
     Bureau Core Research Building and Lab Renovation
     TexNet and CISR Lead Texas Seismicity Research
     Bureau Awarded Grants to Study Water-Energy Nexus
     High Concentrations of Dissolved Methane Not Widespread
     GCCC Key in International CCUS Efforts
Research Consortia
     Advanced Energy Consortium
     Applied Geodynamics Laboratory
     Center for Energy Economics
     Center for Integrated Seismicity Research
     Deep Reservoir Quality Gulf of Mexico
     Exploration Geophysics Laboratory
     Fracture Research and Application Consortium
     Gulf Coast Carbon Center
     Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory
     Quantitative Clastics Laboratory
     Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory
     State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery Program
     Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology

Awards and Honors [all with photos]
     Jackson School Outstanding Service Award: Eric Potter [with photo of Eric Potter and Dean Sharon Mosher]
     AAPG Awards
     GCAGS Convention and Awards
     GSA Fellow: J.-P. Nicot
     Pettijohn Medal: Charles Kerans
     SPE’s “A Peer Apart”: Steve Laubach
     Bureau Publication Awards
     UT President’s Outstanding Staff Award: Melissa Garcia
Outreach, Events, and Meetings
     Industry Day
     Bureau Research Symposium
     Resource Center
     Explore UT
     Earth Science Week Career Day
     GeoFORCE Program
     Texas High School Coastal Monitoring Program
     Workshops and Training
Publications - The Bureau Store
     Reports of Investigations
     Maps
     Father-and-Son Collaboration [Ne-Zheng Sun and Alex Sun book published by Springer]
     Peer-Reviewed Publications by Bureau Researchers
Transitions
     In Memoriam: Chester "Chet" Garrett, Jr.; Mary W. McBride; Ron Russell
     Retirement: Tom Tremblay
Finances
Visiting Committee



Keywords: BEG, Bureau of Economic Geology, annual reports, Texas, Texas geology



Citation
Bureau of Economic Geology, John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 2016, Annual Report 2015, 40  p.