Lunch Meetings

The LABGS meets for lunch each month to network and learn about geologic research, application, theory, or to share observations of interest to our membership.

Time / Date:

Usually the 4th Thursday of each month

Typical Meeting Agenda

Lunch Served:11:30 AM to 12:00PM
Announcements:11:50 AM to 12:15 PM
Guest Speaker:12:15 PM to 12:45 PM
Questions/Close:12:45 PM to 1:00 PM

Cost:

Lunch and Speaker:$25.00 with reservation
$35.00 without reservations
$20.00 Retired
Student:$10.00

 

 

 

Reservations:

Please make your reservations for lunch meetings by clicking the Make Reservation button above.
If you have questions, you can email Joe Landeros at landerosjd@gmail.com or phone him at (626) 497-1710.
 
Reservations must be made by 12:00 pm Monday morning prior to the meeting to receive the discount price noted above. Walk-ons are always welcome.

Place:

Signal Hill Petroleum located at 2633 Cherry Avenue, Signal Hill, CA. (562-595-6440, Brady Barto, ext. 5233). There are two doors north of E. Willow St. on the west side of Cherry.  Drive to the rear of the parking lot on the north side of the building, and look for the sign directing you to the conference room.

 

 

Schedule of LABGS Speakers and Events

Click here for info on the current speaker and newsletter
Click here for a list of past speakers
Click here for a list of past newsletters

January, 2024 -- Dave Larue, Chevron North American Exploration & Production (retired),
Fluvial Reservoir Architecture, Directional Heterogeneity and Continuity, Recognizing Incised Valley Fills, and the Case for Nodal Avulsion on a Distributive Fluvial System: Kern River Field, Kern County, California

February, 2024 -- Dr. Rachelle Turner, Gemological Institute of America's Richard T. Liddicoat Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Looking Closer and Seeing Further: The Multiple Facets of Gem Geology and Microanalysis

March, 2024 -- Dr. Liaosha Song, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences CSUB, Director, California Well Sample Repository,
Three-Dimensional Pore Networks in Stevens Sandstone at Elk Hills Oil Field, California: Implications for CO2 Injection and Trapping

April, 2024 -- Dr. Nate Onderdonk, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences California State University Long Beach,
Examples of Punctuated Tectonics in Southern California: Why Would Faults Turn On and Off?

May, 2024 -- Wayne Bischoff, Ph.D., Director of Cultural Resources, Envicom, Ventura, California,
The Geology and Geomorphology of Bonebed Formation, with Recent Examples from Southern California 

June, 2024 -- Daniel C. Steward, President, Los Angeles Basin Geological Society,
Acceleration and Remobilization of the Ancient Altamira Landslide Complex, AKA the Portuguese Bend Landslide(s) 

October, 2024 -- Bjorn Paulsson, Michael Wylie, and Ruiqing He, President, Paulsson Inc., Van Nuys, California,
Borehole Seismic and Fiber Optic Seismic Vector Sensors Applied to Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery and Geothermal Projects as well as Monitoring California Faults and Pipelines

November, 2024 -- Alan Levy and Todd Ririe, Molybdenum Corporation of America,
History of the Mountain Pass Mine