University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Student Poster Presentation

Please click on the individual profiles to view the student posters and presentations. If you would like to meet with the presenters, click on the Meet Now link to chat with the presenter(s) (only from 5 pm–6 pm on November 1st). We recommend using the Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome browsers to access the meeting links.

Can the Red Sea become a 5 Billion Barrel Superbasin?

Presented by: Abdelfatah, Mohamed

Source Apportionment of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), CO, SO2 and Trace Metals in Houston

Presented by: Morshad Ahmed

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Mixing Ratio in Mexico City During an Ozone Episode

Presented by: Tanzina Akther

Hiatus mapping in Texas

Presented by: Nikola Bjelica

Source rocks thermal stress study in Port Isabel Passive Margin Foldbelt, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Presented by: Muhammad Nawaz Bugti

Using the marine sedimentary record to uncover 20th century changes of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

Presented by: Rachel Clark

A New Valdivia Bank Bathymetry Map: Its Structural and Formation History Implications

Presented by: Edgar Contreras

Distinguishing petroleum source rock acmes across northern South America: Application to evaluate the potential of the Albian to Maastrichtian Guyana Basin

Presented by: Daniella Easley

Smear slide analysis to assess variability of 210-Pb dates in sediment cores from offshore Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica

Presented by: Mary Catherine Hambrick

Thermal Maturity Modeling along the Campeche Salt Basin, Southern Gulf of Mexico

Presented by: Md Nahidul Hasan

From the foreland and retroarc thrust belts to the mantle transition zone: Multi-scale retrodeformable transect of the active 90mm/y Taiwan arc-continent collision

Presented by: Yu-Huan Hsieh

Geophysical investigation of a granite exfoliation dome: Enchanted Rock, Texas

Presented by: Casey Kuo

The unresolved origin of source rocks for hydrocarbons in the Barbados accretionary prism: squeezed from sources within prism or derived from organic-rich blocks scraped off the downgoing plate?

Presented by: Bryan Moore

Introducing a novel physics-based cloud convection module: applied to the CMAQ chemical transport model

Presented by: Arman Pouyaei

Exploring Similarities between Global Seismic Tomography Models: A Combined PCA and Hierarchical Clustering Analysis

Presented by: Moloud Rahimzadeh

Searching for slabs within the Earth’s mantle predicted by higher-confidence Pacific plate Reconstructions

Presented by: Steven Ramirez

Assessing the effects of the Panama arc collision on basement configuration, clastic wedge formation and hydrocarbon distribution in northwestern South America

Presented by: Juan Pablo Ramos

Poster

AI-assisted structural interpretation of complex faulting and salt on the shelf and slope of the Camamu basin northeastern Brazil

Presented by: Sean Romito

Flexural modeling of the subducting Atlantic plate – Bahamas to Trinidad

Presented by: Kenneth Shipper

Application of Brown-Korringa to Fluid Substitution of Shales

Presented by: Spires, Kathleen Larkin

Changes in Precipitation Patterns in Houston, Texas

Presented by: Madeline D. Statkewicz,

Quantification of snow depth in 2021 Uri winter storm in Texas using machine learning

Presented by: Yu, Xiao

Detrital Zircon Geochronology, Provenance, and Sediment Dispersal in Late Cretaceous Strata with Implications for Sevier and Laramide Tectonism in the Western Interior Basin, Montana and Wyoming, North American Cordillera

Presented by: Veronica Zermeno

If you would like access to the Sheriff Lecture at 6pm, please register with HGS here. Registration closes at 3pm on Monday, Nov 1, 2021. HGS will then email the zoom link to the Lecture.