Boone Pickens School of Geology

Congrats to Souryadeep Chakrabarty and Adeleye Adedokun for getting 1st place in the 2026 U.S. Regional Challenge Bowl!!! Souryadeep and Adeleye will represent the U.S. Regional at the SEG Challenge Bowl World Finals! Way to represent our department and school guys!

Congratulation to Chinanu Unigwe (PhD candidate) for his recent article publication "Dolomite filtration for lithium and cobalt recovery from produced water: Feasibility and mechanistic insights." Chinanu is advised by Dr. Javier Vilcáez

You can check it out here:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hydromet.2026.106746

All are welcome to Spring Rock Swap on May 2nd from 10 am to 4 pm at parking lot #29 located north of the Noble Research Center, Boone Pickens School of Geology🤠

Thank you, Jordan Claytor and John McKnight, for an insightful demo on GVERSE – GeoGraphix and its latest updates! It was a great opportunity for our students and faculty to get a closer look at how this industry-leading software continues to evolve and support geoscience workflows.
Shoutout to the OSU-SEG and OSU-AAPG student orgs for organizing the Lunch & Learn.🤠

Summer class enrollment is happening now! Check out one of our 3 courses available. Geology 1003 The Story of Dinosaurs, Geology 1014 Geology and Human Affairs and Geology 3513 Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Disasters. Enroll now while there is still time! 🤠

Thank you to everyone who helped make Dr. Michael Grammer's Retirement Party a memorable one 🤠

“Thank you for joining us at this year’s Boone Pickens School of Geology Alumni Awards Banquet. It was a pleasure to gather together and celebrate the achievements, dedication, and community that make our school so special….
Congratulations once again to all of our student award recipients. Your hard work and accomplishments are truly deserving of recognition, and we are proud of all you have achieved.”

A big thank you to the guest speakers, our very own alumni, Kelsey Bufford, Amy Brittain & Joshua Deen for making the 8th Colloquium of the Spring series a great success.

All are invited to participate in the TechFest Photo contest. Instructions can be found in the attached flier. There is a QR code to submit your entry.

TechFest 2026 is back with a bang this year. We have poster sessions, photo contest, networking dinner with a keynote speaker and much more.

Also we have a lunch and learn with Gverse Geographix the day prior which is open to all TechFest participants.

Sign up below:

TechFest Poster Presentation: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=HclpKknoNE6iMM34sn4ZZDPAGbA0kQ1AvhoCn7Ry0NRUNEtVQTM0MDMwVEo4SVc5WDAxTzJNT1ExTS4u&route=shorturl

TechFest Photo Contest:
https://forms.gle/dMjif4sdMNrFdezz6

Gverse Geographix Demo: https://forms.office.com/r/eAtVpJxhCs?origin=QRCode

See you guys there!