Calendar of Past Events for the San Joaquin Geological Society

Past Events

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Calendar of 2004 Events

September 10, 2004: SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbeque
at Pioneer Village on the Kern County Museum grounds
October 12, 2004 – Jeff Sande, Plains Petroleum: Mt. Poso field; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
November 9, 2004 – Larry Knauer, Chevron: Geology and production history of the Kern River oil field; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
December 14, 2004 – Mike Wracher, Venoco: Rotation of sub-domains within the Transverse Ranges Province - Reservoir implications: Sockeye field; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)

Calendar of 2005 Events

January, 11 2005 – Stuart Gordon, Oxy Resources California: Petroleum geoscience of of Oxy's southern San Joaquin Valley fee acreage; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
February, 8 2005 – Jim Moore: SPOUSE NIGHT - Clarence King and the lure of Mt. Shasta; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
March, 8 2005 – Mark Kamerling, Venoco: South Elwood oil field: Results of new technology and ideas; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
April, 12 2005 – Pete Dillet and Fred Bair, Chevron: Heavy oil operations at Cymric: Production of Tulare and Antelope; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
April 29 - May 1, 2005: Pacific Section Annual Convention in San Jose, CA
May 10, 2005 – John Howe, Archer Petroleum: Geology of the North Franklin area, Sacramento Basin; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
June 14, 2005 – Gene Fritsche, Cal State Northridge: Discovering geology in Morocco and Mongolia; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
June 19-22, 2005: AAPG National Convention in Calgary, Canada
September 9, 2005: SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbeque
at Pioneer Village on the Kern County Museum grounds
October 11, 2005 – Roger Slatt, University of Oklahoma: Scales of heterogeneity of sandstone reservoirs: What every geologist knows and geophysicists and engineeers should know; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
November 8, 2005 – Ron Crane: Geology of Mount Diablo; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)
November 10, 2005 – Scott Tinker, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer: The "I" in BusIness EthIcs (Joint BAPL-SJGS Luncheon)
December 13, 2005 – Bruce Laverty, Plains Exploration & Production: Hopkins Fee - Producing Oil on the Tulare fringe of South Belridge Field; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting)

Calendar of 2006 Events

January 10, 2006 – Bob Liske Aera Energy: DOE Project: Treatment of oil-field produced water for beneficial re-use; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
February 14, 2006 – Chris Schneider: SPOUSE NIGHT - Echinoid surpise; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
March 14, 2006 – Pete Rose, AAPG President: Estimating oil and gas reserves: We have met the enemy, and he is us; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
April 9-12, 2006: AAPG National Convention in Houston, TX
April 11, 2006 – Tom Redin, consultant: Santa Barbara Channel Structure and Correlation Sections Project, Santa Ynez Mountains to the Channel Islands, Western Transverse Ranges, CA; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
April 26, 2006 – Dr. Jason Saleeby, Cal Tech: A model for the three-stage development of Sierra Nevada geomorphology and its relationship with the San Joaquin Basin; (Joint SJGS/SEG Luncheon, 11:30am, Seven Oaks Country Club, Bakersfield)
May 7-11, 2006: Pacific Section Annual Convention in Anchorage, Alaska
May 9, 2006 – Student Poster Night and Sohia Cubos, Oxy: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Etchegoin Formation at Elk Hills; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
June 13, 2006 – David Crane, Aera Energy: Geologic Reconnaissance of the Homestead and Yucca Valley region, SW Mohave Desert; A study in erosion and deposition by Pleistocene glacier outflow; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
September 8, 2006: SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbeque
at Pioneer Village on the Kern County Museum grounds
October 10, 2006 – Staffan Van Dyke: Fine Scale 3D Architectural Model of a Submarine Channel Complex onto a High-Resolution Seismic Image; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
November 14, 2006 – Dr. James Boles, U.C. Santa Barbara: Methane seepage along faults in the Santa Barbara coastal area, California: geologic and modern evidence; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
December 12, 2006 – Staci L. Loewy, CSUB: Reconstructing Supercontinents: Connecting the Pieces of the Puzzle; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

Calendar of 2007 Events

January 9, 2007 – Tim Elam, Chevron: Gold in Kern County; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
February 13, 2007 – SPOUSE NIGHT - Doris Sloan and John Karachewski: Highlights of San Francisco Bay Area Geology; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
February 21, 2007 – JOINT SJGS, BAPL and SJWLS LUNCHEON: Tom Walker - Oil Price Forecasting; (SJGS Wednesday Lunch at the Petroleum Club in Bakersfield)
March 13, 2007 – Hilario Camacho, Signal Hill Petroleum: Evidence for generation and migration of hydrocarbons along thermally anomalous faults in the Los Angeles basin, California, USA; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
April 1-4, 2007: AAPG National Convention in Long Beach, CA
April 10, 2007: No SJGS Meeting due to AAPG Convention
April 25, 2007 – SJGS Luncheon: Bruce Banerdt-JPL Project Scientist - The JPL Mars Rover; (SJGS Wednesday Lunch at the Petroleum Club in Bakersfield)
May 8, 2007 – James Blink: An Overview of the Yucca Mountain Repository Setting and Performance; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting at the Petroleum Club in Bakersfield)
June 12, 2007 – Tom Hopps, Rancho Energy Consultants: Geologic Overview of Ventura Basin Oilfields Operated by Vintage Production California, LLC; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
September 7, 2007: SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbeque
at Pioneer Village on the Kern County Museum grounds
October 3, 2007 – AAPG Distinguished Lecturer - Dr. Jon Olson: A Geologist’s Guide To Explaining Natural Fracture Phenomena with Fracture Mechanics; (SJGS Wednesday afternoon talk in Bakersfield)
October 9, 2007 – Jon Schwalbach, Aera Energy LLC: Stratigraphic and Structural Controls on Fracture Distributions:
Examples from California Basins; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
November 13, 2007 – Ronn Rose, Army Corps of Engineers: Lake Isabella Dam Study; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
December 11, 2007 – Gene Fritsche, CSU-Northridge: Into The Bowels of Hades: Investigating an Early Miocene Tilted Volcano in the Santa Monica Mountains; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

Calendar of 2008 Events

January 8, 2008 – Stanley Stearns & Robert Dockweiler, Oxy of Elk Hills: New Pool Definition, Delineation and Development: The P5 Reservoir, Safah Field, Oman; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
February 12, 2008 – SPOUSE NIGHT with Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory: The NASA DESDynI Mission - Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
March 11, 2008 – Stephen Hickman, USGS Earthquake Hazards Team: Structure and Properties of the San Andreas Fault at Seismogenic Depths:
Recent Results from the SAFOD Experiment; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
March 29 - April 2, 2008: Pacific Section - AAPG Convention in Bakersfield, CA
(Joint meeting with SPE)
April 8, 2008 – No SJGS Meeting scheduled: due to Pacific Section Convention in Bakersfield
April 20-23, 2008: AAPG National Convention in San Antonio, TX
May 13, 2008 – CSUB Student Poster Night: Several posters and a couple of talks from CSUB Geology students; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
June 10, 2008 – Scott T. Hector: Subsurface Characterization of the Potrero-Ryer Island Thrust System, Western Sacaramento-San Joaquin Delta, Northern California; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield); click here to download a zip file of the slide presentation
September 12, 2008: SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbeque
at Pioneer Village on the Kern County Museum grounds
October 14, 2008 - Scott Hector, Paul Graham Drill Company: California Exploration: 1998-2008; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)
October 29, 2008 - AAPG Distinguished Lecturer - Charles Feazel: North Sea Chalk: 40 Years of Production at Ekofisk Field
from a Rock Some Said Would Never Flow Oil; (SJGS Wednesday Luncheon in Bakersfield); click here to download a zip file of the slide presentation

November 18, 2008 - Two Talks - Malcolm Allan & Stan Stearns

The Belridge Giant Oil Field: It keeps going and going ...

and

Elk Hills Field Overview: Its Past, Present and Future

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

November 20, 2008 - AAPG Distinguished Lecturer - Jim Jennings

A Geologist's Introduction to Permeability Averaging and the

Effects of Scale on the Permeability of Heterogeneous Rocks

(SJGS Thursday Luncheon in Bakersfield)

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December 9, 2008 - Dr. Doug Yule, Calif. State Univ, Northridge

Great Earthquakes of the San Andreas Fault

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

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Calendar of 2009 Events

January 13, 2009 - Tony Reid, Vintage Production

Testing a concept: Is the geologic history of the southeastern

San Joaquin basin consistent with postulated Miocene rotation of the

Tehachapi and San Emigdio Mountains?

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

January 28, 2009 - AAPG Distinguished Lecturer: Mike Gardner,
Montana State Univ., Bozeman

The Role of Outcrop Models in the Subsurface Characterization

of Deep-Water Reservoirs

(Dinner at the Petroleum Club in Bakersfield)

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February 10, 2009 - Spouse Night: Dr. Gene Fritsche,
Calif. State Univ. Northridge

Plutons, Pyroclastics, Pinnipeds, and Penguins:

A Trip to the Antartic Peninsula

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

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March 10, 2009 - Dr. Robert Negrini, Calif. State Univ., Bakersfield

The Science behind Anthropogenic Global Warming: A Well Supported

Hypothesis based on Comparing Prediction with Observation

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

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April 14, 2009 - David J. Crane, Chevron North America

An Examination of the Surface Rupture Gap in the Landers Earthquake

between Johnson Valley and Eureka Peak Faults, San Bernardino

County, California

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

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May 2-7, 2009

Pacific Section Convention in Ventura, CA

May 12, 2009 - Dr. Jason Saleeby and Zorka Saleeby, Calif. Tech.

Origin and evolution of the White Wolf fault and the Maricopa Basin

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

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June 7-10, 2009

AAPG National Convention in Denver, CO

June 16, 2009 - Dr. J. Casey Moore, Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz

Sandstone Intrusions, Sandstone Extrusions, and Cold Seeps

from the California Coast Ranges: Increasing Reservoir Connectivity

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

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President's Overview of 2008-2009

September 25, 2009 - SJGS Annual Golf Tournament and Barbeque

tournament at Sundale Country Club

afterwards a BBQ at Pioneer Village at the Kern County Museum

October 13, 2009 - Bob Horton, Calif. State Univ. at Bakersfield

Sandstone Effects of Artificial (Steam-Induced) Diagenesis

on Heavy-Oil Production in Miocene-Pleistocene Sands at

Kern River Oil Field, California

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

November 2, 2009 - Martin Perlmutter, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer

High Frequency Paleoclimate Change:

Impact on Exploration Strategy and Climate Research

(Monday Luncheon at the Petroleum Club)

November 10, 2009 - Henry Walrond, consultant

A Tale of Two Sands

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting at the Petroleum Club)

December 3, 2009 - John, Howell, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer

Building an Oil Company, How Hard Can It Be?

((Thursday Luncheon at the Petroleum Club)

December 8, 2009 - Mike Clark, consultant

Tectonics and Sedimentation in the Long Beach Unit of Wilmington field,

Los Angeles Basin, California

(SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting in Bakersfield)

Calendar of 2010 Events

January 12, 2010 - Tim Elam, Chevron: The Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed- A Kern County Paleontologic Treasure; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting at the Petroleum Club)
February 9, 2010 - SPOUSE NIGHT - Dirk Baron and Rob Negrini, CSUB: To the Proterozoic and back:; A 21-day float trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon:; or Dirk and Rob's Excellent Adventure; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting at the American Legion Hall)
March 9, 2010 - Larry D. Gurrola, Duane E. DeVecchio, Edward A. Keller, Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara: Rincon Mountain Megaslide: La Conchita, Ventura County, California; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting at the American Legion Hall)
April 13, 2010 - Wallace Kleck, PhD - CSUB: Cenozoic History of the Kern River; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting at the American Legion Hall)
April 11-14, 2010: AAPG National Convention in New Orleans, LA
May 11, 2010 - CSUB Bakersfield Student Showcase: Talks by Sarah Schindler and Dan McCuan; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting at the American Legion Hall)
May 27-29, 2010: PSAAPG-Cordilleran GSA Convention in Anaheim, CA
June 8, 2010 - Diane Clemens-Knott, Ph.D., Dept. of Geological Sciences, Cal State Fullerton: The Goldstein Peak unit (western Sierra Nevada batholith):; Exploring possible ties between California’s first (?) nonmarine; sediments and the Great Valley Sequence; (SJGS Tuesday Dinner Meeting at the American Legion Hall)