Sheriff Lecture
About the Speaker
Dr. Julia Wellner is a marine geologist who works primarily offshore Antarctica on questions related to the sedimentary record of glacial variability, climate history, and sea-level change. Wellner has completed over a dozen ocean-going cruises collecting geophysical data, surface samples, and drill cores, including ten seasons in Antarctica. Most recently, she served as the Co-Chief of International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379, Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Next season she will be back in Antarctica as part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration.
She and her students also work in the Gulf of Mexico, examining details of recent stratigraphic units as analogs for petroleum reservoirs and on coastal response to sea-level rise. They use donated data as well as collect new data in shallow water using their own boat, the R/V Mishipeshu.
Julia completed a tour as an American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Distinguished Lecturer in 2016 and now serves on several AAPG committees. She volunteers to lead coastal field trips for many local meetings, including the upcoming 2020 AAPG meeting.
She earned her Ph.D. in 2001 in Geology and Geophysics from Rice University, where she also completed a post-doctoral fellowship. She has been at the University of Houston since 2006 where she teaches stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, marine geology, oceanography, and field courses in facies interpretation. She received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the UH Alumni Association in 2015 and served as a UH Energy Fellow in 2016-2017.
Poster Competition
The table below shows the list of 43 students who are competing in the following categories:
- Adv Phd - 16 students total
- 2nd MS/Early PhD - 17 students total
- Undergrad/1st MS - 10 students total
| Students | Poster Titles | Year | |
| 36 | Agudelo, Gonzalo |
GPS geodetic infrastructure for subsidence and fault monitoring in Houston, Texas, USA
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2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 25 | Amirzadeh, Maria |
Whiteness Assumption, Bluing and Lithology
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Adv PhD |
| 37 | Andrade, Carlos |
Paragenesis of Silicified Corals - Evidence from Petrography and Silicon Isotopic Analyses.
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Adv PhD |
| 15 | Bishop, Lila |
Forearc Sliver Motion and Subducting Slab Geometry near Sandino Forearc Basin, Nicaragua |
Undergrad/1st MS |
| 22 | Bugti, Muhammad |
The minibasin weld with subsalt sediments and its impact on regional downflow movement of the salt canopy, deepwater Gulf of Mexico |
Adv PhD |
| 12 | Cappelli, Michael |
Mapping Possible Detached Lithosphere From High Velocity Zones Under East Asia
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Undergrad/1st MS |
| 3 | Charles, Weston |
Regional flexure of the Caribbean intraplate area as a result of its subduction beneath the northern South America margin |
Undergrad/1st MS |
| 7 | Chen, Yi-Wei |
Dynamic topography across overthickened oceanic lithosphere from a gravity constrained crustal model of the Caribbean |
Adv PhD |
| 19 | Clark, Rachel |
Reconstructing past behavior of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica through sedimentological analysis of marine cores |
Adv PhD |
| 38 | Davis, Elizabeth |
Effects of contemporaneous orogenesis on sedimentation in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, northern Utah and southwestern Wyoming
|
2nd MS/Early PhD |
| 39 | Flores, Josh |
Is a new Microplate with a Forearc Spreading Center Forming at the Southern Termination of the Mariana Arc? |
Adv PhD
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| 14 | Fonseca, Michael |
A Real‐time Method to Identify Brittle Zones in Carbonate‐Rich Mudrocks Using Bulk and Trace Element Geochemistry: A Study in the Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Niobrara Formations
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2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 8 | Fuston, Spencer |
Raising the Resurrection Plate by Structurally Restoring Subducted Slabs Below the NW Cordillera
|
2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 2 |
Gad, Mohamed
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Integrated AVO analysis, seismic inversion and machine learning for de-risking new prospects in the Hutton Sandstone Formation, Onshore Australia.
|
2nd MS/Early PhD |
| 9 |
Given, Paige
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Strong correlation between the trace and the CLVD component of the deep earthquake moment tensors in Tonga
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Undergrad/1st MS
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| 20 |
Hasan, Md Nahidul
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Structural and stratigraphic history of the deepwater Campeche and Yucatan sub-basins, Southern Gulf of Mexico
|
2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 5 |
Hsieh, Yu-Huan
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New strategy for multi-scale unfolding and restoration of the subducting South China Sea passive margin under the Taiwan collision
|
2nd MS/Early PhD |
| 41 | Ibe, Ivory |
Subduction History of Yakutat Plateau Under Alaska
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Undergrad/1st MS
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| 31 | Jiang, Lian |
Porosity Prediction Using the Spectral Decomposition Attributes and Machine Learning
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Adv PhD
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| 26 | Kouassi, Marie |
Velocity Model Building to Improve Subsalt Imaging of 2D seismic data in GOM Deepwater
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2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 4 | Li, Yipeng |
Mesozoic tectonic of the Kurgovat-Vanch complex, NW Pamir |
Adv PhD
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| 30 | Li, Linhan |
Crustal Lithium Isotopic Profile Through The Bay Of Islands Ophiolite: The Implications For The Extent Of Hydrothermal Cooling Of The Lower Oceanic Crust.
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2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 10 | Lin, Yi-An |
Where are the proto-South China sea slabs? SE Asia plate tectonic and mantle flow insights from TERRA global mantle convection models |
Adv PhD |
| 17 | Liu, Mei |
Crustal architecture of Gulf of Mexico, Late Jurassic, oceanic crust and significance of the Marginal Rift System during Gulf of Mexico opening
|
2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 44 | Miller, Benjamin |
Main tectonic phases in back-arc extension of the northern Lesser Antilles arc
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Undergrad/1st MS
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| 32 | Miller, Jacob |
Cenozoic opening history of the Grenada and Tobago basins of the Lesser Antilles subduction zone
|
2nd MS/Early PhD |
| 18 | Montes, Christian |
Structure of the Santa Marta-Bucaramanga Fault Zone, Colombia
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Undergrad/1st MS
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| 21 | Moore, Bryan |
Structural constraints on oceanic core complex formation from quantitative structural restorations of Atlantic and Caribbean examples
|
Undergrad/1st MS
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| 24 | Pascali, Amanda |
The Importance of XRF Core Scanning in Reconstructing the History of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
|
Undergrad/1st MS
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| 35 | Ramon-Duenas, Carolina | The San Luis Pass Flood Tidal Delta And How Storms Model The Texas Coast | Adv PhD |
| 33 | Robinson, Delaney | Sediment signature of West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics in the Amundsen Sea |
Adv PhD
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| 11 | Romito, Sean |
Caribbean basement terranes: Boundaries, depth, and flexure effects on hydrocarbons
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2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 6 | Russell, Trevor |
Similarities in asymmetrical, oceanic spreading: Iceland, South Atlantic, NE Gulf of Mexico, and Marianas backarcbasin
|
Undergrad/1st MS
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| 40 |
Shahtakhtinskiy, Aydin
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Quantitative facies characterization using ground-based LiDAR and hyperspectral imaging in the Mississippian Lime outcrop near Jane, Missouri
|
2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 42 |
Stearns, Andrew
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Quantifying Hurricane Harvey Sediment Transport in the Houston-Galveston Region
|
2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 23 | Storey, Matthew |
Tectonic setting, structure, and seismic stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic Apalachicola Rift Basin and its overlying sag basin in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico
|
2nd MS/Early PhD
|
| 1 |
Tian, Yuan
|
Effects of tidal seismic resonance |
Adv PhD
|
| 29 |
Xiong, Lin
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TLS-aided Mini-UAV Photogrammetric Surveys for Coastal Erosion Monitoring: a Case Study at Freeport, TX
|
Adv PhD
|
| 16 |
Yan, Weiyao
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New U-Pb zircon age of Trondhjemites from the bay of islands Ophiolite Complex, Western Newfoundland |
Adv PhD
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| 43 | Yu, Xiao |
Rapid Land Subsidence in Tianjin, China Derived from Continuous GPS Observations (2010-2019)
|
2nd MS/Early PhD
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| 34 | Zhang, Hualing |
Integrating gravity modeling and structural analysis to understand regional basement structure framework in the Permian Basin, west Texas
|
2nd MS/Early PhD |
| 13 | Zhou, Xin | Quantifying rapid beach hand dune erosion induced by Hurricane Harvey at Freeport, TX |
Adv PhD
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| 27 | Zinecker, Marcus |
Crustal Structure of the Guinea Plateau, NW Africa, revealed by seismic analysis and 2D forward modeling of gravity data
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Adv PhD
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