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DARWIN
YEAR
VISITING SCHOLAR
DR. PHILIP D. GINGERICH
E.C. Case Professor of Paleontology
Professor of Geological Sciences, Biology, and Anthropology
University of Michigan
See:
“Darwin Year”
12th
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
EARLY VERTEBRATES/
LOWER VERTEBRATES
June 11-14, 2011
LOWER PERMIAN
OF TEXAS
FIELD EXCURSION
June 15-18, 2011
See:
“Early Vertebrates”
ENERGY
Surface Geochemical
Exploration for Petroleum
A Guide to the Collection
at SMU's DeGolyer Library
Since
1968, the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man has advanced
the cause of novel methods of oil and gas exploration. In that
vein, the Institute has encouraged Dr. Donald F. Saunders and
Dr. Martin J. Davidson to bring together articles and related
material on the topic of surface geochemical exploration. This
collection can be examined at the University's DeGolyer Library.
In addition, titles from the collection have been made available
on the internet.
See:
“Collection Guide”
TEC 2008 Symposium
 For
the 6th year in a row, the ISEM will co-sponsor the Texas Energy
Council Symposium. The theme for this year’s 21st symposium
is Global Energy: Today & Tomorrow. Special thanks
are due to ISEM’s Diana Vineyard who helps arrange the logistics
for the symposium each year, which is held at the Hughes-Trigg
Student Center on the SMU campus. The Institute is once again
pleased to offer free registration to the TEC Symposium for all
SMU student members of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
SPONSORSHIP
Corporate Sponsors
Fundamental
to all that ISEM does is the financial support we receive from our
corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors provide critical resources
- financial ones, certainly, but also vital business and political
contacts - for our mission, and particularly for the ISEM Energy
Program.
See:
“Sponsors”
ISEM in the World
ISEM Excursions
ISEM
continues to build on its invitational excursions to
places including Alaska, Iceland, Wyoming, and the Dakotas to examine
the surface expression, economic potential, and the path ahead in
the use of Earth's heat as an energy resource for the future of
humankind. Special thanks are due to Shade Tree Studios for
making documentaries of the ISEM excursions.
See:
“Events”
ARCHIVES
Information
about some of our past energy events and field research can be found
here.
See:
“Archives”
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ISEM
NEWSLETTER
SPRING
2007
FALL 2006
FALL
2005
OCEAN
DALLAS
Ocean Dallas Rises Again
The
Ocean Dallas Field Guide has served to instruct and inspire teachers
during their hands-on experience with rocks and fossils. Now, Ocean
Dallas is revised and improved so that it might be used once again
in organized teacher training.
See:
“Ocean Dallas”
RESEARCH
Dallasaurus Represents
Missing
Link in Evolution of Mosasaurs
 "Starting
out as small animals like Dallasaurus, (mosasaurs) mastered
their new marine environment and rose to become the top predator
in their ecosystem, the T.Rex of the ocean."
SMU
paleontologist Michael Polcyn
See:
“Dallasaurus”
Study of An Amber-Preserved
Anolis Lizard in 3-D
 Using
computed tomography scanning, similar to the CT scanning used
in hospitals and doctors' offices, the ISEM researchers at Southern
Methodist University are able to create a three-dimensional view
of this tiny lizard's skull. The bones are preserved inside a nugget
of amber, found in the Dominican Republic.
See:
“Amber”
Finding Oil and Gas
An
exercise introducing
3D seismic imagery
 Seeing
through amber with X-rays to produce digital images is much the
same as using CAT scans in medicine, or even using seismic vibrations
to produce digital signals that can be turned into images of Earth's
interior. These
images are especially useful in the search for oil, as shown by
ISEM's 2000 Hedberg Award winner, Dr. Milo Backus.
 See
his video representation.
See:
“Finding Oil and Gas”
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