A number of VT Geosciences students — including Mohammad Khorrami, Lars Koehn, Jarely Mendez, and Matt Tascione — attended the SEG/AAPG IMAGE conference (IMAGE = International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy) in Houston, Texas. At the event, our students met with a number of alumni, including department Advisory Board members Henry Pettengill (Rose and Associates) and Rhonda Welch (Chevron), as well as Andrew Parent (Shell), Neal Auchter (Shell), Steve Becker (Exxonmobil), Fang Lin (Chevron), Niven Shumaker (Schlumberger), Kathy McManus (retired Exxonmobil), and Joe Reilly (retired Exxonmobil). 

Graduate students Asenath Kwagalakwe, Oluwaseyi Dasho, John Ogunleye, Esther Oyedele, and Emmanuel Irumhe and undergraduate student Savaria Parrish presented their research at the 43rd Annual Technical Conference of National Association of Black Geoscientists (NABG) conference in Atlanta, GA.  Oluwaseyi Dasho (first place) and Asenath Kwagalakwe (second place) were recognized for the best lightning talks at the conference.

PhD student Ben Eppinger gave a presentation at the International Congress of Geostatistics in Ponta Delgada, Azores.  His talk was entitled, ""A novel full waveform inversion and stochastic rock physics approach for estimating porosity and saturation in the critical zone."

The annual New Student Welcome was a success at last week's GEOS Tuesday event. The event was attended by a majority of our incoming 28 first-year undergraduate students, 7 incoming transfer students, 8 major transfers, 4 new MS, and 10 new PhD students. April Newcomer organized the event, which was run by student coordinators Ella Davis (grad) and Morgan Shikle (undergrad/GeoClub Pres), with presentations from students Savaria Parrish, Saye Woodard, Noah Keller, Madeline Kronebusch, Sofia Kryder, and Gavin Belcher.