Page 8 - 2020 GGE Newsletter

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A NOTE FROM THE
CHEVRON CENTER OF RESEARCH EXCELLENCE (CORE)
CONT’D

New students: Nataly Chacón, below left, (M.S., sponsored by the Geology dept.) just started this fall amidst COVID, and
had a rollercoaster ride to get her F1 visa! Leonela Aguada, below right (M.S., sponsored by Fulbright) was not able to get her
J1 visa and will begin at Mines in Spring 2021.
Nataly (left) hails from Colombia and her project will be focused on automated
facies detection from 3D outcrop models using machine-learning.

Leonela (right) comes to us from Argentina, and her project will likely be focused
on depositional processes in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina. We would
love for Chevron to provide steer for these projects to make them more applica-
ble to CVX assets!

Some photos of our recent work:
In May 2020, Kaci Kus, Hanaga Simabrata, and Zane Jobe traveled to San Die-
go (with proper PPE and social distancing) to take advantage of the lowest tides
of the year that expose the Point Loma Formation. Kaci’s MS project is focused
on better understanding the lateral heterogeneity of these submarine lobe de-
posits.

Baby for scale! Pruet Jobe (son of Zane and Jessie
Jobe) sits on cross beds of the Entrada Sandstone -
this photo was taken during a trip to the Moab,
Utah area in September 2020, where Mary Carr led
a socially-distanced trip to the Entrada to scope out
a new project looking at lateral facies heterogeneity
between dune/interdune deposits. Luke Pettinga
(right) is a much taller scale bar.

Zane Jobe and Hanaga Simabrata wait for a bubble tea after looking at some Wolfcamp
core. Han is co-advised by Lesli Wood and his project was supposed to be a core-focused
study of carbonate debris flow deposits in the Permian Basin, but access to core has been
difficult during COVID, so he is transitioning to an outcrop project in the Cutoff For-
mation – more on that in the next newsletter!