Jacob A Covault
Mailcode: E0630
Dr. Jacob Covault is a Research Professor and leader of the Quantitative Clastics Laboratory (QCL) at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences. His expertise is the sedimentology and stratigraphy of deep-water depositional systems, and source-to-sink sediment dispersal. Jacob aims to address challenges in the exploration and development of natural resources, namely reservoir presence and quality prediction in frontier basins, and reservoir connectivity and heterogeneity. Prior to his present position at the QCL, Jacob was a senior research scientist at Chevron Energy Technology Company, and served the Department of the Interior at the U.S. Geological Survey. He received Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in Geological and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University. Jacob has published peer-reviewed research papers and scientific conference abstracts pertaining to petroleum geology, reservoir characterization, sedimentology, stratigraphy, basin analysis, Earth surface processes, and marine geology.
Areas of Expertise
sedimentology, stratigraphy, marine geology
Postdocs
Larry Lai, 2024 - 2026, UT-Austin
Glenn Sharman, 2016 - 2017, UT-Austin
Graduate Students
Abigail Tucker (Committee Member)
Kalen Murphy (Co-supervisor)
Jake Margoshes (Co-supervisor)
Jenna Kohn (Co-supervisor)
Cassandra Guzman (Co-supervisor)
Juan Gutiérrez (Co-supervisor)
Dallas Dunlap, Ph.D., 2025
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Cole Speed, Ph.D., 2024
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Evelin Gutierrez, Ph.D., 2023
(Co-supervisor)
UT-Austin
Gabrielle Varona, M.S., 2022
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Buddy Price, Ph.D., 2022
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Paul Morris, Ph.D., 2022
(Supervisor)
UT-Austin
Sarah Meyer, M.S., 2022
(Co-supervisor)
UT-Austin
Xinggang Christopher Liu, Ph.D., 2022
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Cullen Kortyna, Ph.D., 2022
(Co-supervisor)
UT-Austin
Kevin Meazell, Ph.D., 2021
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Leo Zeng, M.S., 2020
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Logan West, Ph.D., 2020
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Kelly Thomson, Ph.D., 2020
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
John Swartz, Ph.D., 2019
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Ruth Fierens, Ph.D., 2019
(Committee Member)
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Graham Soto-Kerans, M.S., 2018
(Co-supervisor)
UT-Austin
Woong Mo Koo, Ph.D., 2018
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Jinyu Zhang, Ph.D., 2017
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
Can Ceyhan, M.S., 2017
(Co-supervisor)
UT-Austin
Meredith Bush, Ph.D., 2016
(Committee Member)
UT-Austin
| Year | Semester | Course | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Spring | GEO 391 | Machine Learning Applicatns |
| 2018 | Spring | GEO 391 | Sediment Grav-Flow Dep Sys |
| 2018 | Spring | GEO 371T | Sediment Grav-Flow Dep Sys |