Expertise

Primary skills:

  • Tectonics and sedimentation
  • Structural geology
  • Depositional systems and sequence stratigraphy
  • Petroleum systems analysis
  • Geologic uncertainty analysis
  • Economics and business decision making in geoscience industries

Research interests:

  • Formation, Evolution and Destruction of Continental Margin Basins
  • Tectonic vs. eustatic drivers for unconformities and the geologic history missing along unconformities
  • Paleogeography, basin-scale distribution of sedimentary facies, and changes thru time
  • Deposition and preservation of organic carbon rich sedimentary rocks
  • Subsidence, sedimentation, thermal history and diagenesis/metamorphism in basins

Areas/regions of interest:

  • Western and Southern Margins of North America
  • Circum-Caribbean
  • Southeast Asia

Research Interests:

  • petroleum geology; structural geology; seismic interpretation; reservoir characterization; sedimentology/stratigraphy; portfolio analysis; exploration risk and volumetric analysis
Degrees
PhD, Rice University, Geology and Geophysics, 1988
MS, University of Texas at El Paso, Geosciences, 1985
BS, University of Texas at El Paso, Geosciences, 1983