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2008 Deep Water Research Group Meeting
Remembering Bill Normark, 40 Years of Innovation on Submarine Fans
San Antonio, Texas
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7 - 10pm
Chairs: Rick Beaubouef and David Pyles
Special Collaborators: Andrea Fildani and Brian Romans
We are pleased to announce this year's SEPM Deepwater Research Group Meeting. Each year the SEPM holds a Deepwater Research Group Meeting in association with the AAPG Annual Convention. The meeting will be held Monday evening from 7pm - 10pm in the Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. There will be signs in the lobby specifying the room.
This year's meeting is a special tribute to the late William R. Normark. In the words of his dear friend David Scholl, "Early in the evening of Saturday, January 12, Bill Normark, at home with his wife, went quietly to map the big fan in the sky. the pearly offshore will new be meticulously observed, recorded and, at last, understood. Yes, he took an AUV with him."
Please join us in a program of talks and presentations given in honor of Bill's professional and personal legacy:
- Rick Beaubouef and David Pyles, Introduction, (5 min)
- Andrea Fildani and David Scholl, Tribute to Bill Normark, (10 min)
- Letter from Emiliano Mutti (read by Andrea Fildani) (5 min)
- David Piper, Remembering Bill Normark: Forty Years of Innovation on Submarine Fans, (15 min)
- Bruno Savoy, Geometry of Sediment Waves on Quaternary Turbidite Levees: A Review - Comparison with Outcrops, (15 min)
- Gary Parker, Geometry of Sediment Waves in the Laboratory, (15 min)
- Charlie Paull, Large wave-shaped bedforms in the axial channel of Monterey Submarine Canyon: Monterey Bay, California, (15 min)
- Brian Romans, Coarse-Grained Sediment Delivery to the Holocene Santa Monica Basin: Evaluating Source-to-Sink Flux at Millennial Time Scales, (15 min)
Please pass this invitation on to your colleagues. We look forward to seeing you Monday evening!
Sincerely,
David R. Pyles
Research Professor
Chevron Center of Research Excellence
Department of Geology and Geological Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado 80401
dpyles@mines.edu
303.273.3601
R.T. (Rick) Beaubouef
Senior Geologic Advisor
Hess Corporation
rbeaubouef@hess.com
713.609.4988
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