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Project Alumni and Former Staff |
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Project Alumni Each of these former students received a graduate degree, completed a thesis or dissertation, and contributed research to this project.
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CBTH Former Staff, Post-Docs, and Undergrads
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Suhail received his MSc from UiS in June 2014. His thesis focused on building the paleogeography of the northern Caribbean from Late Cretaceous to Recent. Back to Top |
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Mudussar completed his MS study at UiS in June 2016. His thesis focused on the tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Barbados accretionary prism and Tobago basin using MCG 2D seismic regional data. Back to Top |
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Trevor Aitken graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2005. His Master of Science thesis is titled "Cenozoic stratigraphic and tectonic history of the Grenada and Tobago basins as determined from marine seismic data, wells, and onland geology.” Back to Top |
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Malik is a graduate student in Geology at the University of Houston who joined the CBTH Project as a research assistant in May 2018. His thesis is focused on analyzing CHIRP data for the Galveston bay area and his work for the CBTH Project includes managing the GIS database for faults and cores, and analyzing the passive margin fold-belts on Gulf of Mexico, African margins, and Atlantic margins of South America. Malik graduated from UH in December 2019. Back to Top |
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Tricia Alvarez has completed her Ph.D. dissertation titled “The Southeastern Caribbean Subduction to Strike-Slip Transition Zone: A Study of The Effects of Lithospheric Structures and Overlying Clastic Basin Evolution and Fill” and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in December, 2014. She was formerly an assistant professor in geology and geophysics at the University of Trinidad and Tobago in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and is now a Geoscience Lead with Heritage Petroleum Ltd in Trinidad. Back to Top |
Elodie Autret, BS
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Elodie Autret interned with Alejandro Escalona at the University of Stavanger in the spring of 2009. Her thesis is titled "Regional Geological Interpretation of Offshore Guyana Based on Subsurface Data." Elodie graduated with a marine geology Master of Science degree from the University of Brest (France). Back to Top |
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Rocio completed her PhD study on the Lower Magdalena basin of Colombia in May 2014. Her research included a complete crust to mantle description of the Lower Magdalena basin and the underlying Caribbean subducted slab using earthquake information, gravity, and seismic reflection data. She also integrated information from earthquake seismology to document the Caribbean slab underlying the basin which she mapped in detail. She completed a fall internship with ConocoPhillips in December 2013 and was a post-doctoral researcher in Taiwan. Back to Top |
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Lila "Maddie" Bishop completed her MS study in December 2021. She joined the CBTH Project in Fall 2019 after completing her BS in General Geology in the Spring of 2019 at The University of Texas. She has a range of experience from Developmental Geology in the Gulf of Mexico to Glaciology in Washington State. Her MS project involves seismic interpretation, stratigraphy, and petroleum system evaluation in the Sandino Forearc Basin, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Back to Top |
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Joan Marie is a PhD graduate who joined the CBTH project in 2013. She received her BS in Geophysical Engineering and her MSc in Earth Sciences from Universidad Simón Bolívar. Her PhD topic was a subsurface geologic and geophysical study of La Vela Bay, the Paraguana Peninsula, and the Falcon basin of western Venezuela. Back to Top |
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Nawaz Bugti completed a mapping PhD study of the Port Isabel fold-thrust belt in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico in December 2022. Nawaz also assisted in developing the CBTH GIS database through application of modern technology, equipment and extensions. Nawaz supervised the maintenance and training for software applications including Petrel and Landmark and assisted in seismic data loading and archiving. Back to Top |
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Henry graduated with an MS degree from UT in summer 2011. His thesis is titled "Tectonics and petroleum potential of the Llanos Orientales foreland basin, Colombia." Back to Top |
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Dr. Luis Carlos Carvajal received his BS in geology from the National University of Colombia in 2007. Later, he worked as a Junior Exploration Geologist with Prospex Energy and PGS in Colombia. He joined the CBTH Project and PhD program at UH in 2012. Luis Carlos has worked on the subsurface structure, stratigraphy, and petroleum potential of the Nicaraguan Rise and Colombian Basin. During his studies, he had internships with Chevron and Statoil. In May 2017, Luis Carlos completed his PhD and continued working for CBTH as a post-graduate researcher. Back to Top |
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Hugo Castellanos graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2007. His PhD dissertation is titled "Sequence Stratigraphy and Tectonics of the Guantao and Minghuazhen Formations, Zhao Dong Field, Bohai Bay, Eastern China." Back to Top |
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Karilys graduated from UH in December 2014 after working with the CBTH Project for two years. Her MS thesis focused on 2D and 3D seismic and well data in the transition area from passive to active margin in easternmost Venezuela. Back to Top |
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Andrés joined the CBTH project in 2017 as a graduate researcher in organic geochemistry. He took on a PhD program in 2018, which includes continued work to increase both local and regional understanding of the petroleum system of the circum Caribbean and GOM. Andres previously completed his MS study, titled "Geochemical analysis of oil from Barbados and basin modeling of Paleozoic units in the southern Llanos Basin, Colombia," at UiS. In 2022, he completed his PhD at the University of Stavanger. Back to Top |
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Renn Chang completed her Bachelor’s in Earth Sciences from National Central University, Taiwan in 2015. After graduating from university, Renn worked for one year as a research assistant whose main role was seismic data acquisition and processing. Renn was in the Professional Master’s Program in Subsurface Geoscience at Rice University and joined CBTH Project as an intern in 2017. Renn’s internship with CBTH included the compilation of igneous and metamorphic rocks age information from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean region by ArcGIS to make the Atlas for CBTH Phase IV. She also studied the Bahamas region by using 3D gravity inversion method and magnetic method in order to clarify the crustal type underneath the Bahamas carbonate platform and better understand its tectonic origin. Back to Top |
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Alejandro Escalona, PhD
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Dr. Alejandro Escalona completed his PhD from The University of Texas in 2003 and his post-doc at UT Institute for Geophysics in 2006. In 2007, he became an associate professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Stavanger in Norway where he worked as the co-principal investigator of the CBTH Phases II-VI. In 2008, AAPG awarded him the J.C. "Cam" Sproule Memorial Award for one of his papers on the Maracaibo basin. He was promoted to full professor in 2013 and is currently the Head of the Department of Energy Resources. Back to Top |
Brendan Figueira, MS
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Brendan's MS study was titled “Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the southern Gulf of Paria, Trinidad-Venezuela.” Brendan is a citizen of Trinidad & Tobago and attended the University of the West Indies (UWI), where he graduated with a BSc. Petroleum Geoscience in 2009. Back to Top |
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Irina Filina received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin 2007 with a study of "Geophysical investigations of subglacial lakes Vostok and Concordia, East Antarctica". Irina produced gravity models for CBTH in 2008 and previously worked as a Senior Geophysicist at Hess Corporation in Houston, Texas. Back to Top |
Justin Funk, MS
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Justin Funk graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in August 2007. His Master of Science thesis is titled "Cenozoic Tectonics of the Nicaraguan Depression, Nicaragua, and Median Trough, El Salvador based on seismic reflection profiling and remote sensing data." Back to Top |
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Tarek joined the CBTH Project in Fall 2019, was supported as a Fulbright scholar from Egypt and completed his two-year MS study, titled “Structural restoration and basin modeling of the Tarfaya Dakhla basin of the Atlantic passive margin of southern Morocco,” in May 2020. Back to Top |
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Emilio Garcia-Caro graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2006. His Master of Science thesis is titled "Stratigraphic Architecture and Basin Fill Evolution of a Plate Margin Basin, Eastern Offshore Trinidad and Venezuela." Back to Top |
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Shenelle Gomez earned a BSc in Geology from the University of Houston, and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2014. Shenelle Gomez completed her PhD in August 2018 and was a recipient of the UH Presidential and Cullen Stella Ehrhardt Fellowship (2015-2018). Shenelle’s dissertation focused on the tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Barbados accretionary prism and its controls on the hydrocarbon potential in the deep water frontier basins of Tobago and Barbados. Shenelle was captain of the 2016 University of Houston’s AAPG Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) team that finished second in a field of 12 universities in the AAPG Gulf Coast regional competition. She placed second in the 2016 AAPG student poster session held in Canada in summer of 2016, where she presented a play-based assessment of the Barbados Basin. Shenelle worked as a summer 2017 intern with Shell working for both the GOM team and the Trinidad-Barbados team. Back to Top |
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David Gorney graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2005. His MS thesis is titled "Chronology of Cenozoic Tectonic Events in Western Venezuela and the Dutch Antilles Islands Based on Integration of Offshore Seismic Reflection Data and Onland Geology." Back to Top |
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Md Nahidul Hasan joined the CBTH Project as a PhD student in Fall 2019. He previously completed his MS in geology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He completed his PhD dissertation, titled "Tectonostratigraphy, structural styles, and hydrocarbon prospectivity of the rifted-passive margins of the southern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic margin of Morocco" in December 2022. Back to Top |
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Murad Ismael (formerly Hasan) worked for the CBTH Project as a GIS specialist to help maintain the Web Mapping Application, assist with atlas releases, and develop the CBTH GIS database using modern technology, extensions, and equipment. Murad received his Masters in Environmental & Water Resources Engineering from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont and a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from the University of Houston before completing his MS thesis with CBTH on the deep structure of the US Gulf of Mexico. Back to Top |
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Elisabeth Johansen graduated from the University of Stavanger in June 2013. Her MSc study with the CBTH Project focused on 3D flexural modelling of the southern Caribbean and northern South America. Back to Top |
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Bereke completed his MS from the University of Stavanger in June 2013 on a study focused on creating subsidence plots basins within the CBTH area using Zetaware Genesis, which were then used to characterize the basins and understand the geological processes of the area. Back to Top |
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Jack Kenning joined the CBTH Project in 2017 and completed his three-year PhD study, titled “Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic controls on basin formation and hydrocarbon potential of the deep-water Mexican sector of the Gulf of Mexico Basin,” in May 2020. Back to Top |
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Margaret Kroehler graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in December 2007. Her Master of Science thesis is titled "Tectonics and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Venezuelan Basin, Caribbean Sea." Back to Top |
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Steve Leslie joined the project in January 2014 as a PhD student and was also employed as a full-time geophysicist with PanAtlantic Exploration Company in Houston. He completed his MS degree at the University of Hawaii on seismic data processing and interpretation of seismic reflection data from the Hawaiian Islands and has also completed an MBA degree with the University of Texas at Austin. In summer 2020, he completed his PhD subsurface study of the South Caribbean deformed belt and associated forearc basin of the Caribbean margin of Colombia. Back to Top |
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Pin Lin received her BS degree in Geological Engineering from China University of Petroleum 2013 and her MS in Geology and Geophysics from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2015. Her master's thesis focused on seismic facies interpretation from a gas field in the Bohai Basin of China. She started her PhD project with CBTH in 2015 that used well, seismic reflection and gravity data to examine the tectonic origin of the rifted, continental margins and Jurassic oceanic crust in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. She completed her PhD in summer 2018. Back to Top |
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Mei Liu joined CBTH in August 2018 as a PhD student. She completed her BS and MS degrees in geology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her PhD project was a study of crustal thickness mapping of the Gulf of Mexico in the tectonic context of Triassic and Jurassic phase 1 and 2 opening phases. She graduated in August 2021. Back to Top |
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Patrick graduated with his BS in Geology from the University of Wisconsin in 2011 and joined the CBTH Project in 2014 as an MS student working on the topic of the tectonic origin of the Virgin Islands basin, northeast Caribbean. He completed the MS study in 2014 and started working on his PhD topic on deep structure beneath the Campos-Santos basin of Brazil and implications for pre-rift reconstructions. He was a member of the 2013 UH AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Team and graduated with his PhD in summer 2017. Back to Top |
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Eric graduated with his BS degree in geology from the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015. After graduation he worked for one year as an environmental geologist in Massachusetts. In fall 2016, he began his MS project aiming to determine the variations in deep crustal structure between the Barreirinhas and Ceara basins of northern equatorial Brazil over the Romanche Fracture Zone. Eric was the team captain of the 2017 University of Houston Imperial Barrel Award team that placed 1st in the international AAPG IBA competition. He graduated from UH with an MS degree in December 2018. Back to Top |
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Orietta graduated from UH in October 2014. Her thesis is titled "Cenozoic Structure, Stratigraphy, and Paleogeography of the Lower Magdalena Basin, Colombia." Back to Top |
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Carolina completed her MS thesis on the structure of the foothills of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia in 2015. Her MS study analyzed the tectonic evolution of the Mirador Formation using 3D seismic interpretation, well log correlations, balancing of structural cross sections, and thermochronology studies. Back to Top |
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Lourdes is an MS graduate in Geophysics who began working with the CBTH Project in summer 2014. Her MS study involved gravity modeling and seismic reflection mapping of the Espino graben of central Venezuela. She graduated in Summer 2016 and worked for Microseismic, Inc., in Houston. Back to Top |
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Benjamin Miller completed his MS with the CBTH Project in December 2021. Ben previously completed two BS degrees in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Houston in 2017 and worked in the Finance Department for the City of Bellaire, Texas. He joined the CBTH Project as a research assistant in September 2019 and also assisted in managing the reference database as well as the stratigraphy, wells, and outcrops for the GIS database. His MS research was a subsurface study of Saba Bank in the northeastern Caribbean Sea and the rifted-passive margin of Morocco. Back to Top |
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Jacob Miller joined the CBTH Project in May 2019 as an MS student. His MS thesis topics include mapping tectonostratigraphy and integrating gravity and magnetic data. He was on the 2019 IBA World Champion team. Back to Top |
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Bryan Moore is a geology MS graduated who completed a BS in Plant and Environmental Soil Science from Texas A&M University in 2016, a BS in Geology from UH in 2020, and his MS in Geology from UH in fall 2022. His post-bacc research used satellite gravity data to improve the mapping of the continent-ocean boundary along the conjugate margins of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. His MS project involved studying the effects of subducting bathymetric highs on variations in the wedge taper angles and the hydrocarbon implications of the Barbados accretionary prism. Back to Top |
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Catalina graduated from the University of Stavanger with a MSc in Petroleum Geosciences Engineering in 2012 and also worked for the CBTH Project assisting with Landmark software, seismic interpretation, and basin modelling. Her thesis was titled “Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the southern Llanos basin, Colombia." Back to Top |
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Jhon Muñoz-Barrera graduated in June 2015 with an MSc from the Petroleum Geosciences Engineering program at the University of Stavanger. His research project focused on defining the types of structural traps related to the Yopal-Borde Llanero fault system in order to improve the geological knowledge of the area and identify possible areas of hydrocarbon prospectivity. Back to Top |
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Bryan, a December 2012 graduate in geology from UT Austin, completed an undergraduate research project with Paul Mann on Papua New Guinea supported by an NSF grant at UT. His PhD dissertation at UH was supported by the CBTH Project and is a synthesis of seismic and well information from the northern Nicaraguan Rise and Jamaica. Bryan was also the captain of the 2012 UH Imperial Barrel team. In May 2013, Bryan won 1st Prize at the AAPG Student Poster Competition, and began an internship with the Brazil group at Hess Corporation in Houston. He completed his PhD in August 2015. Back to Top |
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Luis graduated from UH in August 2013. His thesis is titled "Sub-surface mapping and 3D flexural modeling of the Putumayo foreland basin, Colombia." Luis interned with Halliburton in Houston during summer 2013. Back to Top |
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Stefan Punnette graduated from University of Texas in the Spring of 2010. His thesis topic was "Tectonic and eustatic controls on the origin of shelf sands and associated facies, offshore northern Trinidad and Tobago." Back to Top |
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Rocio completed her MS at UiS in summer 2018. Her project focused on the tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Gulf of Venezuela using PDVSA data. Back to Top |
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Luisa completed her MS in Petroleum Geoscience Engineering at UiS in June 2013. Her thesis focused on the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the southern Pacific region-Colombia within the framework of the CBTH Project. Back to Top |
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Kyle received a B.S. in geology from Wright State University and began working with the CBTH Project in 2012 along with maintaining a full-time job as a seismic interpreter at ION Geophysical in Houston. His PhD study includes subsurface studies of volcanic margins on the Demerara Rise, Suriname, and conjugate margins of the southern South Atlantic in Uruguay, Argentina, and Namibia. He was captain of the 2012 UH AAPG Imperial Barrel team. Kyle completed his PhD in May 2017. |
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Anthony obtained a BS degree in geology from Grand Valley State University in Michigan in 2009 before graduating with an MS from UT in summer 2011. His thesis topic was "Subsurface mapping and hydrocarbon potential of Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary sequences and structures in the Mexican sector of the Gulf of Mexico." |
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Sean Romito is a December 2021 PhD graduate with CBTH who completed his MS at Rice University in 2017. His PhD research included working on datasets from offshore Gabon, West Africa, and northern Brazil to better characterize the evolution and hydrocarbon prospectivity of these two conjugate margins. He also completed a study of offshore basement terranes of the Caribbean plate and their hydrocarbon prospectivity. |
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Javier completed his MS at the University of Texas in 2011 and his PhD from the University of Houston in 2015. His research covered the complex tectonics and basin history of the Santa Marta massif, Cesar-Rancheria basin, Sierra Perija and Maracaibo basin. Javier had an internship with the Shell offshore Colombia group in the summers of 2012 and 2013 and with Repsol’s Latin American group in the summer of 2014. Javier was a post-doctoral researcher with the CBTH Project from September 2015 to June 2016, where he completed several articles on basin modeling and geomorphology in northern Colombia. Javier joined the Department of Geology at EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia, in July 2016, where he worked as an assistant professor teaching structural geology, tectonics, basin analysis and petroleum geology. Back to Top |
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Guro completed her MS at the University of Stavanager in July 2018. Her thesis title is "Geochemical characterization of oils and sediments from Cuba and Jamaica: Implications for the Northern Caribbean petroleum system." Her thesis field work included sampling oils and source rocks in Cuba and Jamaica, which greatly expanded understanding of the origin and linkages in poorly studied northern Caribbean oils. Back to Top |
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David Soto graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2007. His Master of Science thesis is titled "Structural and basinal architecture and active strike-slip faulting of the eastern offshore area of Trinidad." Back to Top |
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Andrew Steier began working with CBTH in August 2015, as a post-baccalaureate BS geology student assisting with literature compilation and maintaining the GIS database. He completed an undergraduate research project on comparing plate reconstructions for the South Atlantic to geologic constraints along their rifted margins. In 2016, he began his MS thesis on Gulf of Mexico plate reconstructions and sequence stratigraphic evaluation of syn-rift and post-rift strata of the northern Yucatan margin of Mexico, which he completed in May 2018. Andrew worked as a 2017 summer intern with Total in Houston on the Mexican GOM. Back to Top |
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Matthew Storey joined the CBTH Project in May 2019 and completed his two-year MS study, titled “Tectonic setting, structure, and seismic stratigraphy of the Apalachicola Rift and its overlying sag basin in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico,” in May 2020. He completed his one year term as president of the SEG Wavelets student group at UH. In the spring of 2020, Matthew participated in the SEG EVOLVE program which is a team-based class in exploration methods. Back to Top |
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Gustavo Taboada, MS
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Gustavo Taboada completed his MS at the University of Texas at Austin on "2D and 3D tectonostratigraphic framework of the Orinoco delta, eastern Venezuela". |
Travis Tillman, MS
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Travis Tillman worked with the CBTH Project to assist with database management in the summer of 2014 and was a member of the 2014 UH IBA team that placed third in the Gulf Coast conference. Travis completed his MS thesis on the petroleum potential of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico in August 2015. |
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Lucia Torrado, MS
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Lucia Torrado completed her MS study with CBTH at UH in 2012 on: "Non-Marine Sequence Stratigraphy and Changing Fluvial Style in the Northern Llanos Foreland Basin of Colombia” In December 2018, she completed her PhD with the CBTH group, which consisted of subsurface, seismic stratigraphic studies of the Nicaraguan Rise of the Caribbean Sea and the Amazon cone of offshore Brazil. |
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Eleine Vence graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2008. Her thesis topic was "Subsurface structure, stratigraphy, and regional tectonic controls of the Guajira margin of northern Colombia." Back to Top |
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Zach Wolfe completed his MS in 2012 on the structural evolution of the Laramide-age Sierra Madre Oriental Fold and Thrust Belt of eastern Mexico and its control on sedimentary sequences in the western Gulf of Mexico. Back to Top |
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Hualing Zhang joined CBTH as a PhD candidate in fall 2018. She received her BS degree in geoscience from both University of Tulsa and China University of Petroleum (Beijing). She recently completed her Master's degree, which focused on deep-water petroleum system exploration in the Midland Basin, at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research involves the integration of regional gravity modeling, sequence stratigraphy, and basin analysis for understanding the tectonic and hydrocarbon evolution of the Permian Basin (west Texas) and the Sergipe-Alagoas rifted-passive margin (Brazil). She completed her PhD in August 2021. Back to Top |
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Marcus Zinecker obtained his BS degrees in geology and geophysics from the University of Houston in 2014, where he graduated Cum Laude and with University Honors. In fall 2017, he began his PhD studies at the University of Houston, and joined the CBTH team in spring 2018. His PhD project included the tectonostratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of offshore northwest Africa and its conjugate margins, as well as the effect of two-phase rifting on the subsidence history and hydrocarbon generation potential of the southeast Gulf of Mexico. Marcus was a team member on the 2018 University of Houston AAPG Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) team, and he completed his PhD dissertation in summer 2020. Back to Top |
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Dr. Lisa Bingham completed her MSc at Utrecht University in The Netherlands in 2011. Her thesis topic was "GIS-based analysis for petroleum exploration using fuzzy logic multi-criteria evaluation and sensitivity analysis." She worked with CBTH from 2005-2023 and since 2009 she has been at the University of Stavanger. Her main research interests are fuzzy logic multi-criteria evaluation, spatial data sourceability, combining spatial data sets, and applying GIS for geoscience and petroleum. Lisa completed her PhD, titled "Spatial-based assessment at continental to global scale: Case studies in petroleum exploration and ecosystem services", in summer 2017 at Utrecht University.
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Dr. Nestor Cardozo is an Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger who worked with the CBTH Project in 2013-2015 to assist with basin modeling. Back to Top |
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Karen Leever is a researcher at GFZ Helmholtz Centre in Potsdam, Germany. She worked with the CBTH Project on analogue modeling in 2017. Back to Top |
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Dr. Sverre E. Ohm has 30+ years experience as explorationist and petroleum system analyst from ConocoPhillips, Elf petroleum (now Total) and from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). He holds a PhD in organic geochemistry from the University of Oslo. Back to Top |
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Carlos received his PhD in October of 2003 from the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain where his research was focused on wave propagation and tomography applied in Colombia. His current research is focused on attenuation tomography, discrimination of scattering, and intrinsic absorption in the lithosphere of northwestern South America and the southern Caribbean. |
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Dr. Carlos Zuluaga worked as an allied research with the CBTH Project on the tectonic evolution of the Colombian Caribbean Margin during the Fall 2014 semester. |
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Udo Zimmerman worked an allied researcher with CBTH and is an associate professor in sedimentology at the University of Stavanger. His research with CBTH focused on carrying out fieldwork and detrital zircon studies in Barbados and Jamaica in collaboration with the CBTH group at UH. Back to Top |
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Mohamed Abdelfatah joined the CBTH Project in 2021 as a graduate researc assistant, where he worked on basin analysis, subsurface structure and petroleum systems potential of the Red Sea basin. Back to Top |
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Ysabelle Abraham is a UH undergrad geology major who worked for CBTH to assist with the GIS database during summer 2015. Back to Top |
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Rasheed worked as an undergraduate geophysics and geology major at the University of Houston who joined the CBTH Project in 2016. He worked on the GIS database and an undergraduate senior thesis on flexural modeling of large deltas (Niger, Amazon, and Mississippi) and comparing model predictions to geologic observations. Rasheed completed his BS and honors thesis in May 2017. Back to Top |
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Vanessa worked for the CBTH Project in summer 2014 on compiling the GIS database and maintaining references. She was named a 2014 Udall Scholar. Back to Top |
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Mohammad completed a double major of Geophysics and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Houston in Summer 2019. He worked with the CBTH Project on maintaining the GIS database and conducted research on determining phases of tectonically-induced subsidence in different parts of the Gulf of Mexico basin. Back to Top |
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Ian worked for CBTH at UH after serving for three years with the U.S. Marine Corps. He assisted in keeping the GIS data base up-to-date and worked on a senior research project constructing regional cross sections through Hispaniola and restoring displacement on Late Miocene to recent thrusting using 3D MOVE. Back to Top |
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Harris worked as an Undergrad Research Assistant at UT to help convert data to digital format and keep the database up-to-date and organized. Back to Top |
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Laura joined the CBTH Project for the fall semester of 2012, compiling CBTH database materials, conducting miscellaneous GIS tasks, and keeping our references database organized. Back to Top |
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Dr. Marvin Baquero worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the CBTH Project on a compilation study of radiometric ages from northwestern South America to better understand the location and timing of deformation between the Great Arc of the Caribbean and the continental margin of Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. He received his BS in Geological Engineering and his PhD in Geological Sciences from Universidad Central de Venezuela in 2015, where he used new data from geochronology, geochemistry, and isotopes to improve the understanding of the tectonic history of western Venezuela.
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Kherlen worked for the CBTH Project from fall 2012 to summer 2014, where she compiled CBTH database materials, conducted miscellaneous GIS tasks, and organized the references database. Her undergraduate research project compiled paleostress data from Paleozoic to recent rocks of the circum-Caribbean area and compared it to the CBTH PaleoGIS plate reconstructions. She graduated in December 2014, and is completed her MS at Colorado School of Mines with Dr. Lesli Wood in 2018. Back to Top |
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Lauren worked for the CBTH Project at UT in 2011, where she compiled CBTH database materials, conducted miscellaneous GIS tasks, and organized the references database. Back to Top |
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Nikola Bjelica is an undergraduate Geology major at the University of Houston. He joined the CBTH research group in May 2018 and assisted in managing the GIS database for stratigraphy and wells, and analyzing compilation of widespread Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs) from wells from the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and Atlantic passive margins. Nikola graduated from UH in December 2019 and was in the petrophysics training program at Hilcorp. Back to Top |
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Joey Breeland worked for CBTH in 2005-2006 as an undergraduate research assistant while studying at the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated in 2007. Back to Top |
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Dane Brodsgaard worked for CBTH in 2013-2014 as an undergraduate research assistant using GIS software to update the CBTH database. Back to Top |
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Callum worked for CBTH as an undergrad geology major at UH, where he assisted with maintaining the GIS database. He began working for the project in May 2015and completed an undergraduate research project on faulting in the Cusco area of Peru using remote sensing and structural data. Back to Top |
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Presly is a post-baccalaureate geology undergraduate at the University of Houston who joined the project in 2017. She worked on the GIS database and relating ocean anoxic events to global hydrocarbon potential. Back to Top |
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Matt Case worked for the CBTH Project while a senior undergraduate pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in geology at the University of Houston. Matt joined the CBTH research project in the summer of 2013 and worked with GIS software to update the CBTH database. Back to Top |
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Weston Charles was an undergraduate Geology major at the University of Houston. He joined the CBTH research group in May 2019 and worked on the CBTH GIS database. His undergraduate research was a study of regional flexural effects of the Caribbean and Atlantic plates. Back to Top |
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Alex worked as an undergraduate research assistant with the CBTH Project beginnign in summer 2014, where he assisted with GIS and reference database compilation in addition to helping with materials for the annual atlas release. He completed a senior honor’s thesis on tectonic controls on subsidence in the Permian basin of West Texas and graduated in August 2015. Back to Top |
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Matthew Copley worked for the CBTH Project in 2016 to assist with our annual GIS database release while studying as a post-baccalaureate geophysics major at UH. He completed on an undergraduate research project on the continent-ocean boundaries along the East African margin using seismic reflection and gravity data and completed his MS in geophysics at Colorado School of Mines in 2018. Back to Top |
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Ruth is a former research associate employed by the CBTH Project who helped maintain and expand the GIS database. She completed her master's degree in GIS at the University of Redlands in 2007. Her main research interests are in developing customized and more user-friendly GIS applications to access, manipulate and display large databases. Back to Top |
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Sarah is a UH undergrad geology graduate who assisted with the GIS database. She graduated in August 2015 and completed her MS in Geology at Louisiana State University in 2018. Back to Top |
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Marie worked for the CBTH Project from summer 2013 to summer 2014 where she compiled CBTH database materials. She later completed her MS degree on uplift and paleoaltimetry in the Andes at the University of Arizona in Tuscon. Back to Top |
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Andrea is an undergraduate geology student at the University of Houston who joined the CBTH team on May 2017 and graduted in May 2018. She worked on georeferencing and creating shapefiles of faults and seismic lines for the CBTH GIS database. She also worked on her senior honors thesis in which she is using detrital zircon ages and geochemical data to determine the provenance of the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Paria peninsula, northeastern Venezuela. Back to Top |
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Jacob wrote his BSc thesis in Petroleum Geology at the University of Stavanger with the CBTH Project in 2016, entitled: "Eocene reservoir rocks from Jamaica: A provenance study". Back to Top |
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Naila worked as a graduate research assitant at UH, where she studied the crustal structure and petroleum of Central Atlantic conjugate margins. She was president of the AAPG student chapter at UH for 2014-15. Back to Top |
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Daniella Easley joined the CBTH Project in Fall 2021 as a graduate research assistant. She received a BS in Geology from Colorado State University in 2019 and a BS in Anthropology with a minor in Geology from Texas State University in 2014. Daniella spent her first two years at UH working on molecular organic geochemistry with the UH Center for Petroleum Geochemistry (UH-CPG). Her work with CBTH focused on applying her analytical background to basin modeling projects in the Caribbean and Brazil. Back to Top |
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Hamed El-Mowafy worked for CBTH in 2006-2007 as a post-doctoral researcher. Back to Top |
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Janet Everett worked for CBTH as a senior administrative associate. She helped maintain the CBTH website and improve its functionality and user-friendliness. She also assisted the CBTH Project with graphics design, data compilation, and manuscript preparation. Back to Top |
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Erik Fathy worked for CBTH in 2010 as an undergraduate research assistant. He is received a BSc in Geology from the University of Texas. Back to Top |
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Guy Fitz  |
Guy Fitz worked for CBTH as an undergraduate research assistant during the spring semester in 2009. Under the direction of Paul Mann, Guy completed an MSc research project on Papua New Guinea in Summer 2011. Back to Top |
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Marco received his BS in Geology from the University of Houston-Downtown in December 2020 with a concentration in petroleum geotechnology. He joined the CBTH Project in December 2019 to assist with the GIS database. |
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Nancy Hard worked as an administrative associate for the CBTH project at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. She helped students and staff arrange meetings and travel, compile data, and prepare manuscripts. |
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Chase Hudson worked for CBTH in 2006 as an undergraduate research assistant. He graduated with a degree in Biology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Back to Top |
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Xiangyun "Shawn" Jiang received her PhD from the China Petroleum University in Beijing in June 2007. Her topic was "Fluvial reservoir architecture modeling and remaining oil distribution study" in Bohai basin, China. Xiangyun's research activities for CBTH included interpreting seismic data, creating surface maps, and converting vintage well data to digital format. |
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Will King worked for CBTH as an undergraduate research assistant. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology in August 2008. Back to Top |
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Marie is a UH geophysics and geology BS graduate who joined the CBTH Project in 2016. She completed an undergraduate senior report on using a regional compilation of detrital zircon information from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean as a constraint on Mesozoic, pre-rift continental reconstructions. After graduating in May 2017, she worked for the CBTH Project as a Research Assistant. |
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David is a UH Geology BS graduate who worked on maintaining the CBTH references and literature compilation database. David joined the project in 2014 and completed a senior honors thesis on passive margin fold belts of the deepwater area of Mexico in the Perdido and Mexican border region. He later completed his Geology PhD study at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). |
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Wening worked with the CBTH Project from 2012-2013 as a graduate research assistant to import the vast collection of seismic and well images from literature that CBTH compiled from Phases I and II into Landmark for future interpretation. |
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Zhi Chao graduated with his MSc from UiS in 2014. He worked for the the CBTH Project on seismic interpretation and on building a 3D Earth model. |
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Chris joined the CBTH Project for a 2012 summer internship and worked on creating a high-resolution DEM for the study area and producing crustal thickness maps for the CBTH region. |
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Zach worked as a graduate research assistant for CBTH for the fall of 2015. He previously received his MS in Geology from California State University-Bakersfield in June 2015. |
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Sabrina, a UH undergrad geology major, joined the project in 2015 and assisted with the GIS database. She completed a research project on using tectonic geomorphology to constrain the uplift mechanism of the island of Puerto Rico. Sabrina completed her BS in May 2017 and is a summer intern at the Lunar and Planetary Institute of NASA working on remote sensing of the planet Venus. She later completed her MS at Tulane University on tectonic geomorphology. |
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Sarah Meyer completed a BS in Geology from the University of Houston in December 2019 and started an MS at the University of Texas in the fall of 2020. She joined the CBTH group in February 2020 and assisted in managing and updating the GIS database. |
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Christian Montes is an undergraduate Geology major at the University of Houston. He joined the CBTH research group in May 2019 and assisted in managing the GIS database. His undergraduate research is a structural study of the offset of the Santa Marta-Bucaramanga fault zone in Colombia using ArcGIS tools. Christian graduated from UH in December 2019. |
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Luan worked as an undergraduate research assistant for CBTH from 2012-2013, where he focused on researching oil seeps in the Caribbean area, compiling SAR images, and gravity modeling in the Gulf of Mexico. Following a MS degree from UH, he worked for CBTH from 2015-16 on gravity and magnetic modeling to better constrain plate reconstructions of the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Johnathon Osmond worked as an undergraduate research assistant for CBTH updating fault and salt datasets and compiling structural information on basins in Hispaniola. Johnathon completed his MSc in Geology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015 on carbon sequestration in the Gulf of Mexico. Back to Top |
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Delwin Panjikaran was an undergraduate student in the geology department who worked with the CBTH Project for a 2012 summer internship on georeferencing maps from literature and reports and integrating them into the CBTH database. Back to Top |
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Amanda Pascali graduated from UH as a Geology major, Italian Studies minor, and is an aspiring science communicator at the University of Houston. She joined the CBTH research group during the summer of 2017 and conducted research on the distribution of natural, submarine oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, she assisted in maintaining the seismic, seeps, and outcrops for the GIS database. Back to Top |
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María Isabel Prieto worked in 2010-2011 as a graduate student for CBTH compiling geophysical information for the database on the Colombian sector of the Nicaraguan Rise, Caribbean Sea. |
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Brook joined CBTH in May 2020 after completing her B.S. in Geology from UH. Her research with CBTH included a mapping study of the Moroccan margin. She was also a member of the 2020 UH IBA team. Back to Top |
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Trevor Russell is a geology graduate from the University of Houston. He joined the CBTH research group during the fall of 2018. His research included the processes that cause asymmetrical seafloor spreading in the Marianas trough, Iceland, and the Gulf of Mexico. He also assisted in maintaining the outcrops portion of the GIS database. Back to Top |
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Ellya Saudale worked with the CBTH Project from January-August 2021. She has a BS in Geology and MS in Petroleum Engineering. She worked for Schlumberger for many years ranging from senior geoscience consultant to asset evaluation and seismic interpreter. Back to Top |
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Bjorn Schey worked for CBTH in 2006 as an undergraduate research assistant. He graduated with a Geology degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Back to Top |
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Derek worked as an undergraduate research assistant on updating the CBTH GIS database and literature compilation. He joined the CBTH Project in summer 2014 and completed a senior honors thesis on the Gabon-Congo passive margin fold belt. He graduated with honors in August 2015. Back to Top |
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Sanchi Srivastava is a UT undergraduate student employed by the CBTH Project to help convert data to digital format, and keep the database up-to-date and organized. She completed a BS degree in Mathematics with a concentration in Actuarial Sciences in December 2010. Back to Top |
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Emily received her undergraduate degree in geophysics and geology student from the University of Houston. She joined the CBTH research team in January 2017 and assisted in maintaining the GIS database. Back to Top |
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Dr. Lei Sun completed his MSc (2014) and PhD (2018) at University of Houston. His graduate research applied ground-based hyperspectral imaging, terrestrial laser scanning, and geochemical studies to key, stratigraphic outcrops. Lei joined CBTH in July 2018, where he managed the CBTH GIS database and assisted in the annual data release to project sponsors. He also supervised the training of CBTH support staff in ArcGIS. His research applied tectonic geomorphology and gravity modeling to constrain the recent deformation on the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico in the northeastern Caribbean. Back to Top |
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Rizky worked with the CBTH Project from 2012-2013 on compiling data for the CBTH database. He completed his MSc at UiS in 2014. Back to Top |
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Trond, originally from Norway, worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for CBTH at the University of Stavanger and graduated with his MSc in June 2013. He worked to improve and expand the wells database to more accurately include stratigraphic data including intervals, paleoenvironments, and facies for all of the wells compiled from literature in the CBTH database. Back to Top |
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Katherine worked for the CBTH Project in the summer of 2014, where she assistd with database management. She was captain of the 2014 UH IBA team that placed third in the Gulf Coast conference, and completed her MS in metamorphic petrology and geochronology at UH in December 2014. Back to Top |
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Geraldine Tijerina is a graduate of the University of Houston-Downtown where she studied Geology with a concentration in Petroleum. Geraldine joined the CBTH Project as a research assistant in May 2018, where she managed GIS database for thermochronology. Her work for CBTH also included analyzing the constraints on central Atlantic rifting based on a compilation of low-temperature thermochronological ages from rifted, conjugate margins of the East Coast of the USA and northwestern Africa. Back to Top |
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Darren Tjepkema worked for CBTH in 2007 as an undergraduate research assistant. He continued his engineering studies at Texas A&M University and graduated in 2011. Back to Top |
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John Tobeck is a UH undergraduate student who worked for CBTH on compiling data from the Brazilian margin. Back to Top |
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Shelly worked as an undergrad research assistant for the CBTH Project starting in January 2015, focusing on updating the CBTH GIS database. Back to Top |
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Marco Urdaneta is an undergraduate geology student who joined CBTH in January 2020 and assisted in managing the reference database as well as the stratigraphy, wells, and outcrops for the GIS database. His research focused on the relation between the trends of orogenic belts and variations in the amplitude of extension in the areas of the south, central, and north Atlantic rifted margins. Back to Top |
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Faith Walton joined the CBTH Project as an undergrad research assistant in Spring 2022. In May 2023, she completed her senior honors report, titled "Structural, stratigraphic, and seismic tomographic study of the transition from subduction to strike-slip tectonics in the Gulf of California." Back to Top |
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Dr. Lisa Watson completed her MSc at Utrecht University in The Netherlands in 2011. Her thesis topic was "GIS-based analysis for petroleum exploration using fuzzy logic multi-criteria evaluation and sensitivity analysis." She worked with CBTH beginning in 2005 and from 2009-2023 she worked with the CBTH Project at he University of Stavanger. Her main research interests are fuzzy logic multi-criteria evaluation, spatial data sourceability, combining spatial data sets, and applying GIS for geoscience and petroleum. Lisa completed her PhD, titled "Spatial-based assessment at continental to global scale: Case studies in petroleum exploration and ecosystem services", in summer 2017 at Utrecht University. |
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Yang completed her PhD in China and worked with CBTH as Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Stavanger from June 2009 to August 2011. Yang's project focused on mapping the offshore area of Guyana, Suriname, and Cuba. |
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Xiangyang "Cheyenne" Xie received his PhD from the University of Wyoming in June 2007, and was a post-doctoral researcher with the CBTH Project from 2008-2009 using detrital zircons for provenance studies for the area of northwestern South America and the Caribbean. |
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Omar Zavala worked as an undergraduate research assistant and GIS specialist/research assistant for the CBTH Project beginning in the spring semester of 2017. Omar graduated from the University of Houston with his Bachelor of Science degree in geophysics with a minor in mathematics. He completed his undergraduate senior research project on the subsidence histories of offshore wells and low-temperature thermochronological ages from the South American and west African conjugate margins. |
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Lili, a post-baccalaureate geology major at the University of Houston, joined the CBTH Project in 2016. She completed her BS in May 2017 and also completed a senior honors thesis on using a regional compilation of thermochronological and well subsidence data to constrain the rifting and passive margin history of the conjugate margins of the South Atlantic Ocean. |
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