Dear Friends, Below is an announcement from the Karst Waters Institute. My congratulations to Dr. Loucks! For more information, check the link at the end of the message.
Also, NCKRI's offices will be closed for the holidays starting tomorrow and will reopen on 2 January 2014. On behalf of everyone at NCKRI, we send you our best wishes for a happy and safe holiday season. George ----------------------------- The Karst Waters Institute Board of Directors is pleased to announce Dr. Robert (Bob) Loucks as the 2014 Karst Award honoree. Dr. Loucks received a B.A. from SUNY Binghamton and the Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. He started his research career at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin in 1976 and then worked for Cities Service and ACRO research Laboratories until he returned to the Bureau of Economic Geology in 2000 as a Senior Research Scientist and a member of the Jackson School of Geosciences Graduate Studies Committee. Dr. Loucks has conducted research and made contributions in sedimentology and diagenesis of carbonates, sandstones, and mudrocks. In each of these rock types he has concentrated on the origin of pore networks and their evolution during burial; his ultimate goal has always been the improvement of reservoir-quality prediction. His work on pore networks has included discovering nanopore types in shale-gas and shale-oil systems, establishing micropore types and origins in limestones, defining evolution of pore types in sandstones, and characterizing collapsed cavern and fracture systems in carbonate and evaporite paleokarst. His research on carbonate paleokarst has contributed to the understanding of oil and gas in carbonate strata: specifically, the origin of vug/fracture pore networks and the distribution and heterogeneity of reservoirs. The recognition of how and when cave systems collapse with burial has led to identification of such collapsed systems on seismic data. Loucks' present research on evaporite paleokarst systems is identifying the depositional and diagenetic processes that determine whether evaporite karst will lead to a reservoir or seal. Dr. Loucks is author or co-author of nearly 150 articles, many of them on paleokarst processes and reservoirs. He has been recognized with several research awards, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award and the Jackson School of Geosciences Outstanding Research Award. He was selected as an APPG Dean A. McGee International Distinguished Lecturer, as a Permian Basin Section of SEPM Honorary Life Member Awardee, and as an Honorary Research Fellow, School of Geological Science, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK. He has received several best paper and presentation awards, including the 2000 and 2010 Wallace E. Pratt Awards for best AAPG Bulletin paper, 2006 and 2010 A. I. Levorsen Awards for Best Paper, 2008 and 2011 EMD President's Certificate for Excellence in Presentation, SEPM Excellence of Presentation Award, A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award, SEPM Excellence of Poster Presentation Award, and Gordon Atwater Best Poster Award. The 2014 KWI Awards banquet will be Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 7 PM at Americas in The Woodlands, TX. Dr. Loucks will speak at the banquet on the topic of "How Modern Karst Studies Lead to Understanding the Development and Burial Evolution of Paleokarst Reservoirs." Other awards will also be given. Dinner will cost $75 per person, and includes hors d'oeuvres, dinner with choice of entrees and basic beverages. Wine and beer will be available as a cash bar option. Seating is limited. Reserve your seat(s) by either sending a check to Karst Waters Institute, P.O. Box 4142, Leesburg, VA 20177 or via Paypal. For Paypal link and additional information, please visit http://www.karstwaters.org/dinner-announcements.php. ________________________________ PJ Moore, PhD Stratigraphy-Carbonates ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. P.O. Box 2189, URC NW 656 Houston, TX 77252 Office: 713-431-6010 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ******************** George Veni, Ph.D. Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-6215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.nckri.org<http://www.nckri.org>
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