Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Navigating Early Career Opportunities in Academia, Government and Industry
Discussion Leader: Kehua You (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Jefferson Creek (Colorado School of Mines, USA) and Judith Schicks (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany)
"Navigating Early Career Opportunities in Academia, Government and Industry"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Gas Hydrate Fundamentals: Mechanical, Chemical and Biological Controls on Hydrate Stability
Discussion Leaders: Tian Li (The University of Western Australia, Australia) and Sebastian Ovalle (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Henrik Sveinsson (University of Oslo, Norway)
"Grain Boundary Behavior of Hydrate-Hydrate and Ice-Ice Bicrystals: Molecular Dynamics Insights"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Sriram Ravichandran (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
"Assessing the Stability of Natural Gas Hydrates Under Different Storage Conditions"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Bernadette Cladek (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
"In Situ Low-Temperature Pair Distribution Function (PDF) Analysis and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of CH4 and CO2 Hydrates"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Kayode Adeniyi (University of Calgary / Alberta Sulphur Research Ltd, Canada)
"Water Content of Acid Gas Hydrate Under High Pressure Conditions"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Andrey Stoporev (Kazan Federal University, Russia)
"Phenomenological Model of Gas Hydrates Decomposition in Oils"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Abigail Johnson (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"The Search for Novel Gas Hydrate Inhibitors"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Challenges and Opportunities in Understanding Hydrates in Nature
Discussion Leaders: Manasij Santra (Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, USA) and Ruyi Zheng (University of Kansas, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Hariharan Ramachandran (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)
"Multiple Phases Observed at an Active Seepage Site at the Vestnesa Ridge, W-Svalbard"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Yi Fang (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"Transport Properties of Coarse-Grained Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sediments in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Zach Murphy (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"Experimentally Derived Two-Phase Water Relative Permeability in the Presence of Methane Hydrates"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Jyoti Shanker Pandey (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
"Visualization of CH4 Hydrate Dissociation Under Permafrost Temperature Conditions Using High-Pressure Micromodel"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Ryan Heber (The Ohio State University, USA)
"Gas Hydrate Systems of the Barents and Norwegian Seas: A Statistical and Geospatial Approach Using Industry Well Log Data"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Michael Nole (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
"A Hybrid Machine Learning and Reservoir Simulation Approach to Estimating Global Gas Hydrate Occurrence Using Open-Source Software"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Finding a Work-Life Balance and Maintaining Your Mental Health in Science
Discussion Leader: Jennifer Frederick (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Zachary Aman (The University of Western Australia, Australia) and Ann Cook (The Ohio State University, USA)
"Finding Work-Life Balance and Maintaining Mental Health in Science"
1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes