DOSECC Workshop

2005 Annual Workshop held in Austin

The University of Texas at Austin and the Bureau of Economic Geology hosted DOSECC’s Annual Continental Scientific Drilling Workshop from June 5-7, 2005. The workshop featured 23 presentations of recent research and projects where drilling and core retrieval were a major component of sample collection, and provided a forum for the discussion of scientific drilling projects and topics of interest to the scientific drilling community. View all of the presentations here.

A field trip lead by Dr. Leon Long, Professor at UT Austin - Jackson School of Geosciences, entitled “Geology of Central Texas”, was held on Sunday, June 5th. Thanks Leon for leading a great trip! Also, thanks to Beverly DeJarnett of UT-BEG for planning and logistical support for the field trip and the workshop...couldn’t have done it without you Bev!

Dr. Leon Long, deciphering the Llano Uplift of central Texas for the Workshop participants. (photo by David Zur)

The trip was held in conjunction with the 7th International Congress on Rudists, and featured an introduction of the Llano Uplift, block-faulted Paleozoic strata, Precambrian granite batholiths emplaced into metamorphic basement, stromatolites, a very cool faulted section of Cambrian glauconitic sandstone, and Cretaceous dinosaur footprints.

Dr. Tony Walton (r), DOSECC Chairman of the Board, attended this very same field trip when he was a student of Dr. Long’s. He presented Leon with this t-shirt, emblazoned with a photo of Dr. Long taken during that trip. (photo by David Zur)

A Southwestern Fajita welcoming reception was held around the pool at the Summerfield Suites hotel, and a classic Texas barbeque dinner was enjoyed by all on Monday night. (dancing pigs photo by David Zur)

DOSECC’s Tenth Annual Continental Scientific Drilling Workshop will be held at the University of California – Davis on June 4-7, 2006. Watch the website for updates!

The following presentations were given at DOSECC’s 2005 Workshop:

Anderson, Ray,Manson Research Drilling: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Missed

Bain, Ron,SalSA: (Salt Dome Shower Array) A 21st Century Neutrino Detector

Bright, Jordon,Bear Lake, UT/IDCore BL00-1E

Browning, Jim, Quantification of the Effects of Eustasy, Subsidence, and Sediment Supply on Miocene Sequences, U.S. Mid-Atlantic Margin

Ekdahl, Erik,The Lake Titicaca Drilling Project

Evans, Jim,Testing Fundamental Theories of Earthquakes and Faulting: The San Andreas Observatory at Depth

Fawcett, Peter,Deep Coring in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico to Obtain a Long-Term Paleoclimate Record

Fridleifsson, Gudmundur Ómar,Iceland Deep Drilling Project

Fulthorpe, Craig,Proposed IODP Drilling of the Offshore Canterbury Basin, New Zealand: Global and Local Controls on Sequence Stratigraphy of a Middle Miocene to Recent, Current-Swept, Passive Margin

Gohn, Greg,ICDP - USGS - DOSECC Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure

Issacs, Angela,Characterizing Brittle Deformation, Damage Parameters, and Clay Composition in Fault Zones: Insights from the Chelungpu, Taiwan, and Mozumi, Japan Faults