HyperMedia Home PageHyperMedia Home PageTwenty-seven years experience in the technical, managing and teaching fields related to the petroleum industry worldwide including interpretation and processing of geophysical data, writing environmental reports, and managing and marketing small business equipment and services.
Researched and published on the acoustic and geotechnical properties of marine sediments.
Submitted and received grants from the Office of Naval Research and Sea Grant.
Operated marine geotechnical lab, and assembled data base for marine core data.
Discovered first play in the Silurian/Devonian reef, Michigan Basin, following processing and interpretation of multifold seismic (vibroseis) data.
Assembled a $1,800,000 proposal with the Institut Fancais des Petroles (IFP) to the petroleum industry for a High Resolution Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy program in the Gulf of Mexico.
Published two theses, five articles, and six books, including "Applied High Resolution Geophysical Methods, Offshore Geoengineering Hazards" with Prentice-Hall, New Jersey and a manual for IHRDC, Boston on Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy - list of publications upon request.
Translated and edited two geophysical software manuals from French to English.
Presented and edited for IHRDC short courses and technical manuals, video modules on geophysics.
Invited lecturer, Rice University, Plio-Pleistocenne Sequence Seismic Stratigraphy course.
Independent Consultant, Houston, Texas - (1977-1993)
Texas A&M University/Department of Oceanography, College Station, Texas - Research Associate (1969-77)
Amoco Production Company, Ft. Worth, Texas - Geophysicist (1968-69)
University of Miami/Institute of Marine Sciences - Research Assistant (1966-68)
United States Navy, North Atlantic ASW Fleet - Operations Specialist (1960-65)
M.S. and Ph.D. in Geological Oceanography - Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
B.S. in Geology - University of Miami, Florida
AAPG, AGU, HGS, MTS, HALPC