Archived Lunch Presentations
Archived RMAG Luncheon Talks
Thank you for your interest in pervious lunch talks. Recordings from the last year are available for purchase, recordings over 12 months old are available to you for free. Talks pre-dating 2020 are only available as a slide deck.
Please note: Presentations are available only per the consent of the speaker.
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June 2026 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Kendall Kittleson
Talk Title: "The Massive Structural Deformation Produced by the Longmont Fault East of Boulder, Colorado"
May 2026 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Peter Blomquist
Talk Title: "Geology of the Colorado 14ers: Structure, Origin, and Serendipity"
April 2026 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Brian Burnham
Talk Title:"Quantifying Outcrops: Digital Methods in Contemporary Geoscience"
March 2026 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Nate Suurmeyer
Talk Title:"The New Exploration Tool: GenAI That Builds the Solutions You've Always Wanted"
February 2026 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Riley Brinkerhoff, Hive Partners
Talk Title: "The Ongoing Development of the Upper Cube: Adding Sticks Across the Uinta Basin"
January 2026 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Rachael Mooreland, S&P Global
Talk Title: "Geoscience Insights Shaping the Future of Energy: The Outlook for 2026"
December 2025 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: David Krause, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Talk Title: "The Madagascar Paleontology Project: Late Cretaceous Game-Changers"
November 2025 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: John McLeod
Talk Title: "Revisiting the Geologic Resources of Ukraine"
OCTOBER 2025 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Ronald S. Bell
Talk Title: "Autonomous Mapping Applied to Geology and Infrastructure."
August 2025 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: David Hume
Talk Title: "The Deep-Water Andaman, Mahanadi, and Bengal Basins. Three Frontier Areas with Massive Exploration Potential on the East Coast of India."
May 2025 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Dr. Christine Griffith
Talk Title: "Reconciling depositional and sequence stratigraphic models in the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk of the Texas Gulf Coast and the Niobrara Formation of the Western Interior Seaway"
April 2025 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Mike Kuligowski, Core Geologic
Talk Title: "Unlocking the Full Potential of Geology Data in Drilling and Completions: A Workflow Approach"
March 2025 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Jon McKenna, MicroSeismic
Talk Title: "Optimizing Return on Investment and Estimated Ultimate Recovery through Advanced MicroSeismic Monitoring Techniques"
February 2025 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Eric Stautberg, Colorado School of Mines
Talk Title: "An introduction to geothermal energy and a case study on exploration for hot sedimentary aquifers on the Texas Gulf Coast"
January 2025 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Rachael Moreland, S&P Global
Talk Title: "Energy in Transition: The North American Landscape and Global Insights for 2025"
December 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Alex Zumberge, GeoMark
Talk Title: "Innovative Subsurface Characterization and Recovery Techniques: Unlocking Uinta Basin Potential through Petrophysical and Geochemical Analyses"
November 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Mike Leibovitz, QB Energy LLC
Talk Title: "Iran Petroleum System and the Masjid il Solaiman Field"
October 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Stephen Drylie, CoreLabs
Talk Title: "Core Analysis for Emerging Energy"
September 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Benjamin Burke, Gradient Geothermal
Talk Title: "Geothermal at Blackburn Field, Nevada"
August 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: David Godsey
Talk Title: "The Permian Basin: A Review of the Geologic History, Stratigraphy, Productive Trends, Hydrocarbon Generation and Current Industry Focus Plays."
June 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Peter Vrolijk, New Mexico Tech
Talk Title: "MASSIVE EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS: CONTRIBUTING FACTORS REVEALED BY IODP EXP. 362"
May 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Sarah Compton, Compton Integrated Analytics
Talk Title: "Using the Relationship Between Geochemical and Pressure Data to Elucidate Produced Oil Sources and Movement in the Subsurface"
April 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Karen Lechtenberg, Carbon America
Talk Title: "Navigating the CCUS Journey: Lessons Learned from Project Scoping to Class VI Permit Submission"
March 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Abdulah Eljalafi, Ovintiv
Talk Title: "Rise and Demise of the Cretaceous Carbonate Platforms of the Western Gulf of Mexico"
February 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Mike Blum, University of Kansas
Talk Title: "Fingerprints of Tectonics and Climate Change in Sandy Turbidites of the Deep-Sea Bengal Fan"
January 2024 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Michael Rigby, ECMC
Talk Title: "The Energy and Carbon Management Commission and the State of Energy"
December 2023 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Zane Jobe, Colorado School of Mines
Talk Title: "Lateral Heterogeneity of Basin-Plain Turbidites of the Cloridorme Formation, Quebec, Canada: Implications for Horizontal Well Prediction"
November 2023 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: James Hagadorn and Steve Fryberger, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Talk Title: "The Lyons Sandstone"
October 2023 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: EIizabeth Petrie, Western Colorado University
Talk Title: "Effects of variation in mechanical rock properties on fracture type and gradient"
August 2023 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Emilie Gentry, TERRVA
Talk Title: "The Role of Fractures and Fault Zones On Exploration and Development of Geothermal Reservoirs"
May 2023 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Ken Balleweg, Beulah Marble Quarry
Talk Title: "Paleokarst Origin & Mining History of the Beulah Marble Deposit"
February 2023 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Timothy Nesheim, North Dakota Geological Survey
Talk Title: “Revisiting the Madison (Mississippian) Petroleum System(s) of the Williston Basin, western North Dakota”
December 2022 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Mitch Schneider, Colorado School of Mines
Talk Title: "Quantifying Rock Characteristics in the San Andres Formation that Promote CO2 Sequestration, Permian Basin, USA"
November 2022 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Ben Burke, Transitional Energy
Talk Title: "Geothermal Systems in Sedimentary Basins"
October 2022 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Christopher Smith, Advanced Hydrocarbon Stratigraphy
Talk Title: “CCS Risk Evaluation in the San Juan Basin Using Rock Volatile Stratigraphy – Identification of Fractures, Lateral and Vertical Migration Pathways, Modified Rock Properties, and Implications for CO2 Injection and Storage”
September 2022 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Riley Brinkerhoff, Wasatch Energy Management
Talk Title: “Losing at the Margins: The Technical and Economic Boundaries of the Uteland Butte Horizontal Oil Play in the Uinta Basin”
August 2022 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Kurt Rudolph, University of Houston and Rice University
Talk Title: "The Assembly of Pangea, a view from Laurentia – Paleozoic Orogenies and their Impact on Basin Evolution and Petroleum Systems"
July 2022 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Dr. Lesli Wood, Colorado School of Mines
Talk Title: "Re-examining our Paradigms on Shelf Processes and Deposits, and the Role of Shelf Processes in the Basinward Movement of Sands to Deepwater"
May 2022 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Donna Anderson, Jane Estes-Jackson, and Matt Silverman
Talk Title: "RMAG: Celebrating the Past and Embracing the Future"
April 2022 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Alexa Socianu, PDC Energy
Talk Title: "Old Dog, New Tricks: A Multiscale Re-Evaluation of the Sequence Stratigraphic Framework in the Emerging Mowry Shale Unconventional Play"
March 2022 Hybrid Lunch Talk
Speaker: Clayton Schultz, SM Energy
Talk Title: "Controls on diagenesis of the Sappington Formation, Bridger Range, southwestern Montana: understanding the significance of facies, stratigraphic architecture, and faults on cement distribution"
February 2022 Virtual Lunch Talk
Speaker: Paul Devine, Resource Analytics
Talk Title: "Sweet-Spot Delineation Using Information Theory as a Guide to Wireline Log Evaluation in Unconventional Reservoirs: Middle Bakken, Williston Basin"
January 2022 Virtual Lunch Talk
Speaker: Bob Fryklund, IHSMarkit
Talk Title: North America - What's Next?
December 2021 Virtual Lunch Talk
Speaker: Ali Jaffri
Talk Title: Beyond Red Beds: What Makes Sandstone-Hosted Copper Work?
November 2021 Virtual Lunch Talk
Speaker: Bruce Trudgill, Colorado School of Mines
Talk Title: Pre-Laramide Salt Tectonics in the Eagle Basin: A New Paradigm for the Tectonic Evolution of Central Colorado
October 2021 Virtual Lunch Talk
Speaker: Michael Hofmann, University of Montana & AIM Geoanalytics
Talk Title: Coincidence or Consequence – The timing of late Devonian active margin tectonism and sedimentation in the intracratonic Williston Basin
September 2021 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Tom Chidsey, Utah Geological Survey (retired)
Talk Title: The Greater Glory of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Utah
August 2021 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Dr. Molly Turko, Applied Stratigraphix
Talk Title: Structural Origin of the Anadarko Basin
July 2021 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Kate French, USGS
Talk: Geochemistry of the Cretaceous Mowry Shale in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming
June 2021 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Randy Blood
Talk Title: Creating Giants: Insights Into The Depositional And Diagenetic Pathways That Created Two Of The Most Prolific Unconventional Reservoirs In The U.S., The Ordovician Utica Shale/Point Pleasant Limestone And The Devonian Marcellus Shale
May 2021 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Steven Tedesco
Talk Title: Helium – Opportunity or False Hope for Operators
April 2021 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Ali Jaffri, PhD
Talk Title: Putting the Sedimentology Back Into Sediment-Hosted Uranium-Vanadium Exploration
March 2021 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Ward Polzin
Talk Title: Weathering the Storm - Our Fast-Changing Oil and Gas Environment
January 2021 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Stephen Nalley
Talk Title: The Future of Energy in 2021
December 2020 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speakers: Tyler Lyson and Ian Miller
Talk Title: Rise of the Mammals: Exceptional Continental Record of Biotic Recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene Mass Extinction
November 2020 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Alex Zumberge
Talk Title: Geochemical Correlation of Late Mississippian-Sourced Crude Oils from the Western USA
October 2020 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Jesse Melick
Talk Title: Increasing Accuracy of Well Performance Prediction: Linking Reservoir Bodies to Charge Footprint, Eastern Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming
September 2020 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Rachel Williams
Talk Title: Facies and Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture of the Mural Limestone (Early Albian), Arizona: Carbonate Response to Global and Local Factors and Implications for Reservoir Characterization
August 2020 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Gary Curtiss
Talk Title: History and Geology of the Cripple Creek Mining District
June 2020 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Mark Millard
Talk Title: Great Scott! A Homebrewed Recipe for Regional Trend-Based Log Normalization: Various Examples from Rocky Mountain Basins
May 2020 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Mark Longman
Talk Title: Revisiting the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Petroleum System in the Rocky Mountain Region
April 2020 Virtual Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Dr. Brian Toelle
Talk Title: 3D Petroleum Systems Modeling Reveals Basin Scale Sweet Spot for Shale Oil Plays within the Bighorn Basin
December 2019 Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Ben Burke
Talk Title: Hydrothermal Processes at Hereford Field, DJ Basin, CO: Implications for Niobrara & Codell Development & Production
August 2019 Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Walter Nelson
Talk Title: Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of the Niobrara-Equivalent Section of Mancos Shale, Northern San Juan Basin
January 2019 Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Alexei Milkov
Talk: The Role of Serendipity, Randomness and Luck in Petroleum Exploration
July 2018 Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Ali Jaffri
Talk: Virtual Field Trip to the Modern Indus Delta
January 2018 Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Alexei V. Milkov
Talk: Shale Gas Dominates U.S. Gas Resources: Results From 2016 Assessment of the Future Gas Supply by the Potential Gas Committee
October 2017 Luncheon Talk
Speakers: Robert Coskey & Steve Cumella
Talk: Thermal Conductivity of Organic Shales and Coals – How Their Presence and Persistence Effect Thermal Maturity
December 2016 Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Steve Fryberger
Talk: Stratigraphy, Exploration, and EOR potential of the Tensleep/Casper Formations, Southeast Wyoming
April 2016 Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Christine Siddoway
Talk: Sandstone Injectites of the Colorado Front Range: Age, regional extent, emplacement mechanism, and significance as a fluid migration pathway
November 2015 Luncheon Talk
Speaker: Ranie M. Lynds
Talk: The case for another look at the Paleocene Fort Union Formation in the eastern Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming
August 2015 Luncheon
Speaker: Lane Douglas
Talk: The Science of Land for the Geologist
October 2014 Luncheon
Speaker: Michael Holmes
Talk: A comparison of petrophysical analytic sequence to describe both conventional and unconventional reservoir
