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MOVE Petex Educational Licence Agreement
22.11.2019
We are glad to announce that we will continue to work with MOVE, a software considered the industry standard for geological 3D-modelling and structural analysis of the earth´s crust. Petroleum Experts Ltd. (Petex) donated 10 Move Software Licenses to the Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen University.
http://www.petex.com/products/move-suite/
The Educational Licence Agreement was recently concluded between the Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen University, and Petroleum Experts Limted (Petex), the technical market leader in the area of software engineering tools for oil and gas companies. Students and researchers at RWTH Aachen will be able to continue to study complex geological structures and processes with the MOVE software package, valued by £ 1,341,962 (over € 1.500.000) and donated by the Scotland based Petroleum Experts Limited.
Sebastian Thronberens honorary mention Bathurst
16.09.2019
In July 2019 Sebastian Thronberens received an honorary mention at the 16th Bathurst Conference for his conference contribution "Miocene to Pliocene reef demise or survival in the Browse Basin, NW Australia". Congratulations!
Hanaa Deik Outstanding Student Poster Award IAS
16.09.2019
In September 2019 Hanaa Deik received the "Outstanding Student Poster Award" at the 34th IAS Conference for her conference contribution "A test of the Limacina Dissolution Index (LDX) as proxy for aragonite saturation of surface waters at Site U1460, SW Shelf of Australia". Congratulations!
MOVE Petex Educational Licence Agreement
05.04.2019
We are glad to announce that we will continue to work with MOVE, a software considered the industry standard for geological 3D-modelling and structural analysis of the earth´s crust. Petroleum Experts Ltd. (Petex) donated 10 Move Software Licenses to the Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen University.
http://www.petex.com/products/move-suite/
The Educational Licence Agreement was recently concluded between the Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen University, and Petroleum Experts Limted (Petex), the technical market leader in the area of software engineering tools for oil and gas companies. Students and researchers at RWTH Aachen will be able to continue to study complex geological structures and processes with the MOVE software package, valued by £ 1.334.160 (over € 1.500.000) and donated by the Scotland based Petroleum Experts Limited.
Video Series "Stone by Stone"
20.3.2017
As part of the "Explain it to me, RWTH!" video series, researchers and students from the Institute of Geology present different types of rock and provide insight into their specific properties and their formation history. The videos are produced in collaboration with RWTH Aachen's Media for Teaching, MfL, service point and published weekly: LINK
Prof. Littke was elected as member of the DFG senate commission
1.12.2014
Prof. Littke was elected as member of the DFG senate commission „Zukunftsaufgaben der Geowissenschaften“ (Sk ZAG; “Geokommission”) for a second three year term. See www.sk-zag.de
ABC-J Oman field trip 2017
20.03.2017
Tweets on the ABC-J Oman field trip 2017: LINK
Article on the ABC-J field trip in the "Aachener Nachrichten": Aachener Zeitung 04.03.2017.pdf
Defense Bianca Biehl and Alexej Merkel
14.3.2016
Bianca Biehl and Alexej Merkel successfully defended their Ph.D. theses. Congratulations.
BMBF article Prof. Kukla on the topic "Energiewende aus der Tiefsee – Vision oder Illusion?"
24.11.2016
Dr. Lars Reuning on board of research drillship JOIDES Resolution, IODP 356, Australia
IODP Expedition 365, drillship JOIDES Resolution: IODP http://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/indonesian_throughflow.html
Dietrich Welte receives Sidney Powers Award
Dietrich
Welte
received
at the annual meeting
of the
"American
Association of Petroleum
Geologists
'
(
AAPG
),
the
highest
scientific honor
,
the
"
Sidney
Powers
Award ".
AAPG
is with around
35,000
members worldwide
the largest and
most important international
geoscience
organizations. The
eulogy
says "
...
the
understanding of dynamic
earth processes
(
geoprocesses
)
,
and
not only
the detection of the
static
end result
was the main
research objective
of
Dietrich
Welte
.
His pioneering
scientific
publications
are
classics.
"
Congratulations!
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2012/10oct/awards1012.cfm
Energy Systems of the Future
Prof. Dr. Ralf Littke was elected as member of the working group "resources" of the programme "Energy Systems of the Future". This programme is a joint initiative of the German Academies of Science.
Awarding of the Friedrich Wilhelm Prizes 2012
05.12.2012
RWTH Aachen honored 31 students, doctoral candidates, and post-docs with the 2012 Friedrich Wilhem Prize. One of this people is our PhD-Student: Christian Weber (M.Sc.).
The honor is annually awarded to RWTH Aachen students and talented researchers, who are chosen for their outstanding achievements. The award ceremony took place during a celebration at the university.
Internationally renowned Dutch Geoscientist visited GUtech
19.3.2014
MUSCAT The Rector and the Department of Applied Geosciences of GUtech have welcomed Professor Dr. Sierd Cloetingh, Royal Netherlands Academy Professor of Earth Sciences at the Utrecht University (Netherlands) last week. Professor Cloetingh gave a presentation entitled: "Integrated Solid Earth Sciences - challenges and perspectives" to AGEO students and GUtech staff. Professor Cloetingh is a well-known geoscientist who has published more than 300 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed geosciences journals. He is also editor in chief of Global and Planetary Change and member of the editorial board of Tectonophysics. Professor Cloetingh has also been promotor of more than 65 PhD students of 18 different nationalities. He has received honorary doctorates from five European universities and numerous honours and rewards such as the Holmes Medal, the honorary membership of the European Geosciences Union, Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Prof. Cloetingh is also President of the International Lithosphere Programme (ILP), Vice-President of the European Academy of Sciences and member of the European Research Council (ERC).
To discuss future scientific cooperation, Professor Cloetingh has been invited by the AGEO department and the Department of Geosciences of RWTH Aachen University, who have also organized a one week field trip around the North of Oman including a large number of sites of geological interest, such as the exposed crust/mantle transition and the ophiolites in Wadi Al Abbyad, carbonate sequences and source rocks and the uplifted coastal terraces along the Omani coastline, an area that is currently part of a tsunami research project conducted by Prof. Dr. Goesta Hoffmann. Prof. Goesta and Prof. Wiekert Visser of the AGEO Department have conducted the field-excursion along with Prof. Dr. Peter Kukla, Energy & Mineral Resources Group and Director of the Geological Institute at RWTH Aachen University. "We have developed plans for a long-term strategic cooperation embedded in the international lithosphere programme. Specifically the setup of a thematic research programme "TOPO-OMAN", affiliated to the successful TOPO-EUROPE programme on coupled deep Earth and surface processes with implications for georessources and natural hazards has been discussed. Additionally research training programmes, including workshops and short courses as well as the exchange of staff form an integral part of this collaborative effort." said Prof. Peter Kukla.
On Tuesday the 18th March Prof. Cloetingh will give a presentation entitled "Tectonics of sedimentary basins" to members of the Geological Society of Oman in the PDO Oil and Gas Exhibition Center at 5 pm.
Defense Samaneh Masoumi
22.5.2014
Samaneh Masoumi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations.
SAMPLE Focus Group Meeting "Lithospheric Structure" in Aachen, 9.-10.2.2012
The next joint meeting of the “Lithospheric Structure, Deformation and Breakup Processes" and the “Sedimentary Systems and Fluid Systems” SAMPLE groups will take place February 10th 2012, 9.00-17.00, at the Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen. Further, we would like to invite to dinner at the "Magellan" on 9.2.2012, 19.00 p.m., after arrival.
Details: http://www.sample-spp.de/events/litho2012
Habilitation (P.D.) talk Dr. Stefan Back, 26.10.2011, 17:00, Be114
27.03.13, talk by Susanne Buiter: "Analysing Wilson Cycle plate margins"
Next Wednesday (27.03.13) Susanne Buiter will give a talk on "Analysing Wilson Cycle plate margins" Hereby we would like to invite you to the talk held at 14:00 in room 408 (Lochnerstrasse 4-20, 'Haus A'). Susanne Buiter has been elected as the president of the EGU Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology.
Prof. Littke is becoming member of acatech
In honor of his scientific achievements was Prof. Littke appointed to the National Academy of Science and Engineering . Further information on the acatech : http://www.acatech.de/uk
GeoMunich2011
Report of the GV-DGG-GSA Joint Meeting GeoMunich2011:
Unconventional Gas
Due to the strong interest in the topic "Unconventional Gas" a link to a new publication, a presentation on this subject and a 3D animation of a coal block is provided.
Teaching Award
Prof. Littke received on 1 July 2011 with 4300,- this year's prize of the Student Council 3.5 Geology & Mineralogy Teaching Award.
Scientific Advisory Board GFZ
At the spring meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam (GFZ) Prof. Littke was elected as the new chairman of this committee.
André Dumont Medaille
Prof. Littke received the André Dumont Medal 2010 of the Belgian Geological Society (Geologica Belgica). On this occasion he held a lecture on "Unconventional Fossil Fuels in Central Europe" in the Royal Natural History Museum in Brussels.
Dipl.-Phys. Yves Gensterblum received the 2012 travel grant of the Professor Dr. Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld Foundation
Yves Gensterblum was awarded this grant for his research on the interaction of gases with clay minerals using neutron diffraction. He is planning to visit the Los Alamos research facilities, USA, for neutron beam experiments early 2013.
Defense Victoria Sachse
28.07.2011
Victoria Sachse successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations.
Short course: Structure, permeability and fluid flow at depth in the Earth's crust, October 11th - 13th 2011
20.9.2011
We invite any MSc.-, PhD-students and PostDocs as well as industry members in the field of earth sciences to apply for a three day short course given by Prof. Stephen Cox at RWTH Aachen University.
October 11th - 13th 2011 (full day, 9am through 5pm)
Littke et al. online
15.08.2011
The paper 'Reflectance of dispersed vitrinite in Palaeozoic rocks with and without cleavage: Implications for burial and thermal history modeling in the Devonian of Rursee area, northern Rhenish Massif, Germany' by Ralf Littke et al. is now available online!
1.4.2016
Chris to KIT
Chris started his new job at KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and thanks his students and colleagues for stimulation research and higher education. His team will succesively move to KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology or continue his/her career in industry.
Chris acknowledges his colleague's generous cooperation, which allowed him the invention and implemtation of EMR concept and name, the concept and implementation of EMR's and GeoMat's English MSc study program, the more management related Georesrouces program (especially by the support of Prof. Reinhard Madlener, Prof. Albert Moser and others) and the initation and implementation of the RWTH Aachen SPE student chapter.
With great committment he supported and contributed to RWTH's interdisciplinary apporaches, be it within the BMBF joint project proposal TESA - Technology-Based Energy System Analysis, the DFG-SPP inititative under the the guidance of Prof. Frank Lehmkuhl., jointly with Prof. Peter Letmathe, Prof. Bernhard Friedrich and Prof. Holger Schüttrumpf., or several geo-energy system analyses jointly with Prof. Reinhard Madlener.
Chris especially thanks his sponsors from industry for their support of research and teaching and looks forward for a fruitful cooperation at KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
OGV Konferenz Aachen
OGV Konferenz Aachen, 29.3 - 2.4.2016
Wir freuen uns das 137te Jahrestreffen des Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereins OGV in Aachen ausrichten zu dürfen.
16. & 23.1.2016
Blockcourse ERM Energy Trading
We are happy to announce the shortcourse of our former student Christoph Budny, GRM, now Trianel, on energy trading aspects. We will highlight that exploration and production is just one side of the story, but share with our students how the market and demand side works.
6.2. & 7.2.2016
Fieldtrip Eifel
We are happy o guide our students in a transect from the Quaternary and Teritary Lower Rhine Embayment sediments to the coal measures, and highly deformed rocks around the Rurlake in a two day fieldtrip.
27.11.2015
Paper Georesources published
Our paper by Yasar Manss, Chris Hilgers, Tobias Vraetz, Thomas Bartnitzki, Karl Nienhaus and Henning Buddenbaum on Combined hyperspectral and Lidar-technology to optimize the location of drilling grids during mining (in German) has been published in Georesrouces 03/2015, 35-39.
20.11.2015
BMBF-DLR project N-Africa
Our new project focusses on the dissemination of applied higher education in northern Africa. We look forward to collaborate with universities in the region to develop a module which integrates national and international industries in applied teaching and research. Several years of successful and collaborative teaching with industry at our department enabled our students to be better prepared for their future carreer.
13.10.2015
Paper ZdGG positively reviewed
Our paper Facies delineation by using a multivariate statistical model from onshore wells in the Nile Delta by Dieter Krott, Christoph Hilgers and Christian Buecker is on track in Zeitschrift der deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft ZdGG.
30.9.2015
Paper Geol Soc Lond Spec Pub in press
Benni's paper is now in press in Reservoir Quality of Clastic and Carbonate Rocks: Analysis, Modelling and Prediction, in the Geological Society, London, Special Publications series, 435
24.-25.9.2015
Fieldtrip for Wintershall
We organized a two-day fieldtrip jointly with Bastian Koehrer und Wolfgang Jelinek for geologists and engineers from Wintershall discussing Marius' and Simon's preliminary results on fractured Zechstein carbonates near the Harz mountains, Germany. The structure and diagenesis of Ca2 carbonate rocks enhosted in deformed anhydrites were explored in the field, evening discussions and exercises outlined the exploration strategies to reduce risk.
28.9.2015
Paper Georesources accepted
Yasar's paper on combined hypersectral and Lidar technology to optimize well placement in mining (Kombinierte hyperspektrale und Lidar-Technik zur Optimierung der Platzierung von Bohrrastern im Abbau) has been accepted for publication and well be published in the following German issue. The English version will be published soon in the same journal. It is based on joint work with Tobias Vraetz (IME), Henning Buddenbaum (Trier), Bartnitzki (IME), Karl Nienhaus (IME) and me, who kicked off the idea.
14.-18.9.2015
Field trip S-England
Our annual field trip to S-England covered the Permian to Cretaceous of S-England. Starting at Kilve, we covered sicliclastic source and reservoir rocks as well as fractrued carbonates. As always the weather was full of sunshine during the long days. We were happy to have Otto with us, who contributed with his experience of his long lasting industrial carreer in E&P. Everybody returned home safely, just one minibus gave up on the home.
9.-11.9.2015
International DRT conference in Aachen
Together with Janos Urai, Klaus Reicherter and Florian Wellmann, Chris organized the DRT conference. International speakers from Asia, Australia, Europe, UK and US presented their innovative research on deformation, rheology and tectonics of rocks. Ivy presented a talk on fractures and faults in tight gas sandstones. Chris chaired the session on "Structural Diagenesis, Fluid flow, HTMC processes" and published a special issue in Geotectonic Research, Vol 97, edited by Christoph v. Hagke, Janos Urai, Klaus Reicherter, Florian Wellmann, Christoph Hilgers.