Itinerary for ODP-Industry Workshop in GeoFluids of Overpressured Strata in the Gulf of Mexico held on March 3, 2000

Friday March 3, 2000

7:30-7:45 Coffee -
7:45-8:00 Workshop Goals Huffman
8:00-8:15 The common scientific ground in GeoFluids in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico Flemings
8:15-8:45 Geopressures in near surface Gulf of Mexico sediments John Pelletier, Shell
8:45-9:00 Why are shallow rock properties important to deep subsurface evaluations Mike Maler, Shell
9:00-9:15 In situ characterization of stress, strength and hydraulic properties

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Jean Benoit, University of New Hampshire
9:15-9:30 Profiling Stress History by In-situ Tests

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Paul Mayne, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:30-9:45 Direct and indirect measurements of pressure in deepwater Gulf of Mexico Sediments

Armand Silva, University of Rhode Island
9:45-10:00 Break -
10:00-10:15 Previous hydrgeological experiments on the D/V JOIDES Resolution Demian Saffer, U.S. Geological Survey
10:15-10:30 Seismic Experiments in Accretionary Wedges

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Harold Tobin
10:30-11:30 What don't we know that we want to know (10 minute presentations from attending scientists defining problems that could be solved with the J/V JOIDES Resolution) TBA
11:30-12:30 Lunch -
12:30-1:15 Development of Scientific Hypotheses (what do we want to test?) -
1:15-3:00 Break into 3 subgroups:

SubGroup A: Location

SubGroup B: Data-sharing

SubGroup C: Experiment Design

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3:00-3:30 Regroup-Review SubGroup products -
3:30-4:30 Prioritize science goals, choose potential locations, decide path forward.

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TBA 
6:00 Shuttle leaves for Group Dinner at Papasitas Mexican restaurant nearby. More details to follow click here. All attendees

 
 


If you would like to attend this meeting please email Peter Flemings at flemings@geosc.psu.edu or call him at (814) 865-2309.


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