Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Indiana University Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
2015 (April)–present.

• Executive Director, Judson Mead Geologic Field Station (2018-present)
• Professor of Practice, Sedimentary Basin Analysis and Petroleum Geology (2018-present)
• Adjunct Professor, Sedimentary Basin Analysis and Petroleum Geology (2015-2017)

ConocoPhillips, 1998–2015

• Global Chief Geoscientist–12 years
• General Manager, Global New Ventures Exploration–2.5 years
• General Manager, Gulf Coast Business Unit–1 year
• Senior Geoscience/Exploration Advisor–1.5 years

Shell Oil Company, 1988–1998

• Manager of Trap Evaluation Research and Services–2 years
• Structural Geology Research and Services–5 years
• Exploration geologist–3 years

El Paso Natural Gas Company, 1980 – 1983

• Student Reservoir Geologist/Engineer

Worked in more than 100 sedimentary basins, on all continents, and most tectonic plates except Antarctica.

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

• 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

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

• Fellow of the Geological Society of America
• ConocoPhillips Archimedes Award for Knowledge Sharing (2012)
• UTEP Gold Nugget Award (2009)
• ConocoPhillips Spirit Awards (2008 for talent management, 2006 for operations excellence)
• Phillips Technology and Services "Star" Award (1999)
• Best of Hedberg poster, AAPG (1998)
• Shell Special Recognition Awards (1994, 1995 and 1996)
• Torklid Rieber Award, Texaco and Rice University (1989)
• Outstanding Student, Houston Geological Society (1988)
• Rice University Research Fellow (1985 - 1988)
• Gulf Oil Co. Research Fellow (1983 – 1985)

• 2002-present: Board of Trustees, American Geosciences Institute Foundation
• 2016-2018: Drillinginfo Advisory Board
• 2009-2018: UTEP College of Science Advisory Board
• 2008-2015: AAPG Corporate Advisory Board
• 2002-2014: Advisory Board, Energy and Geoscience Institute, Univ. of Utah
• 2005-2009: Board of Directors, Offshore Energy Center (Houston)
• 2011-2014: Helped teach – G429, Indiana University
• 2014: Taught – Fundamentals of Petroleum Systems, Indiana University
• 2012: Taught – Fundamentals of Petroleum Systems, University of Texas at El Paso
• 2000-2008: Member, AAPG Publications Committee
• 2004-2005: Chairman, AAPG Research Committee
• 2000-2001: Chairman, AAPG Reservoir Scale Deformation Research Workgroup