Resource Assessment
This field of research integrates a range of geoscience disciplines such as basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir characterization to predict and quantify fossil energy resources in sedimentary basins.
Faculty
 | Critical minerals, economic geology, ore deposits, empirical and conceptual exploration targeting, translithospheric mass transfer, ethical and sustainable mining
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Research Faculty
| Petrophysics, Formation Evaluation, Quantitative Seismic Interpretation, Machine Learning, Integrated Subsurface Characterization, Carbon Sequestration
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 | sedimentology, stratigraphy, marine geology
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 | Sedimentology and stratigraphy, petrology of sedimentary rocks, reservoir characterization
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| Source Rock Characterization
Geochemistry (Organic, Biomarker, Gas Isotope)
Mudrock Characterization
Petrography, SEM
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 | Research in carbonate, sandstone, and mudrock stratigraphy, sedimentology, diagenesis, reservoir characterization, and pore network analysis.
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| Manager of the Texas Seismological Network and Seismology Research (TexNet). Extensive
30 years experience in Seismology and Applied Geophysics both through my research position
as a Senior Researcher and collaboration with Industrial partners in multidisciplinary
European and US funded projects. I currently manage the seismic network of Texas with 210
seismic stations ...
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 | Evaluation of the impact of climate variability and land use change on groundwater recharge, application of numerical models for simulating variably saturated flow and transport, controls on nitrate contamination in aquifers
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Affiliated Faculty
 | geological modeling, geostatistics, spatial statistics, data analytics, machine learning
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Emeritus
 | Basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, petroleum geology, resource assessment, energy policy
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Research Scientists
 | Expertise in geomechanic and geochemistry applied to: risks associated with CO2 sequestration; hydraulic fracturing for shale gas production; environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing; and the water-energy nexus. Current research focuses on the scientific, environmental and public policy aspects of unconventional natural gas production, the water-energy nexus, and carbon capture and ...
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Research Staff
 | 3D geological interpretation and modeling
- Integrated reservoir characterization
- Petroleum Geology
- Petroleum Engineering
- Carbonate sequence stratigraphy
- Conventional and unconventional reservoir exploration and development
- Oil field exploration and production reservoir management
- Petrophysics
- Geostatistics
- Reservoir simulation
- Software development
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