An investigation of extensional tectonics of southern California

Geologic mapping and interpretation of Landsat TM imagery has filled in a significant gap in the geologic database for southwestern Arizona and southeastern California. The new data acquired, along with interpretation of existing data, forms the basis for a proposed reconstruction of late Tertiary faults in these regions. This reconstruction integrates available geological and geophysical data to define the eastern limit of deformation related to the San Andreas fault, and has significant implications for other recently proposed reconstructions of Tertiary deformation in the region. This progress in interpreting deformation during the last 10 Ma in the region forms a foundation for developing and testing models of older deformation in this region, including the initiation of San Andreas fault system, and the interaction of Early Miocene extension in the Basin and Range with the evolving San Andreas system

Identifying potential geothermal resources from co-produced fluids using existing data from drilling logs : Williston, North Dakota

With the current need for technology that will allow for environmentally-friendly power generation, geothermal power has become an attractive resource given its low environmental impact and potential cost savings. One specific resource is co-produced water from oil wells that are not currently producing, but can yield formation waters that are both high enough in temperature and fluid volume to operate the turbines of binary geothermal power systems. The data required to identify sites, i.e. bottom-hole temperatures (BHT), latitude, longitude, total depth of hole (TD) in meters, the identification number, and the amount of water produced in gallons, can be mined from well logs that exist in various data systems. Utilizing this data together with a Geographical Information System (GIS) software package, one can optimize the search for an ideal location for a binary power plant. I am analyzing data from the North Dakota Industrial Commission database for the North Dakota portion of the Williston Basin, with which I have created a report on potentially economically productive power plant locations along with a fully interactive map of western North Dakota

Alien Registration- Crowell, Charles M. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Using the Ability to Host World Events As Incentive to Procure Voluntary Anti-Discrimination Legal Reform

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) have the power to effect global change. Countries vie for the honor of hosting world events such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup because of the prestige and the economic and political gains those events provide. The IOC and FIFA can and should use the incentive of hosting one of these events to procure legal reform in myriad humanitarian equality issues such as sexual orientation, gender, and race. These organizations can prompt this change by requiring that host countries uphold a set of minimum legal standards for anti-discrimination. Section II will discuss the success of incentive to procure voluntary reform. Section III will discuss the current state of the IOC and FIFA and their approaches to the host selection process. Section IV will explain why reform is needed as well as suggest minimum standards that could be adopted by the IOC and FIFA. Lastly, Section V will address the potential pitfalls of imposing minimum legal standards on prospective host nations

Alien Registration- Crowell, Charles M. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Surface Roughness Dominated Pinning Mechanism of Magnetic Vortices in Soft Ferromagnetic Films

Although pinning of domain walls in ferromagnets is ubiquitous, the absence of an appropriate characterization tool has limited the ability to correlate the physical and magnetic microstructures of ferromagnetic films with specific pinning mechanisms. Here, we show that the pinning of a magnetic vortex, the simplest possible domain structure in soft ferromagnets, is strongly correlated with surface roughness, and we make a quantitative comparison of the pinning energy and spatial range in films of various thickness. The results demonstrate that thickness fluctuations on the lateral length scale of the vortex core diameter, i.e. an effective roughness at a specific length scale, provides the dominant pinning mechanism. We argue that this mechanism will be important in virtually any soft ferromagnetic film.Comment: 4 figure