Events Calendar

STARR Workshops

The STARR team offers a series of core workshops and field trips every year that are aligned with ongoing projects. These activities are often offered at no cost to participants. Priority participation is given to technical personnel from small energy companies, as well as to Texas independent operators.

Future STARR Events

STARR Smackover Core Workshop (April 1, 2026)

STARR Strawn Short Course and Core Workshop in Wichita Falls (mid-April, 2026) 

STARR Shelf and Nearshore Marine Sands in Texas Core Workshop (May 1, 2026)

STARR Wilcox Core Workshop and Field Trip (Fall, 2026)
 

Past Events

STARR Ellenburger Core and Seismic Workshop (December 2025)

GSA Connects Field Trip FT25CN417: Sedimentologic, Biostratigraphic and Chemostratigraphic Insights into the Wilcox Group: Implications for Stratigraphic Correlations, Depositional Trends, Paleoclimate and CO₂ Storage (October 2025)

GSA Connects Short Course SC25CN513: Lithofacies and Reservoir-Quality Analysis of Upper Jurassic Smackover Strata in Northeast Texas; Basic Data for Lithium Exploration (October 2025)

STARR Ordovician Ellenburger Core Workshop (November, 2024)

STARR Wilcox Workshop and Bastrop Field Trip (October, 2024)

STARR Strawn Core Workshop at Fort Worth Oil Library (September 2024)

STARR Wilcox Core Workshop and Bastrop Field Trip (March, 2023)

STARR Strawn Core Workshop in Wichita Falls (June, 2022)

STARR Barnett Core Workshop (November, 2021)

STARR Strawn Core Workshop (November, 2021)