SUMMARY

Ener­getic senior Earth Sci­en­tist with Remote Sens­ing focus and global expe­ri­ence in hydro­car­bon explo­ration, envi­ron­men­tal geol­ogy and min­eral explo­ration. Spe­cial skills in appli­ca­tion of remote-sensing tech­nol­ogy to geol­ogy and oceanog­ra­phy.  Inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized author and edi­tor with strong field ori­en­ta­tion. Reg. Prof. Geol­o­gist in States of Geor­gia & Texas.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Hydro­car­bon Exploration

• Cre­ated remote sens­ing group at major oil com­pany, result­ing in bet­ter pric­ing of bids at lease sales and more effi­cient acqui­si­tion of on– and off-shore seis­mic data.
• First per­son to map nat­ural oil slicks world­wide using satel­lite imagery. This new tool for eval­u­at­ing charge in undrilled off­shore fron­tier basins increased con­fi­dence in select­ing plays. Cap­i­tal cost was $50K ver­sus $17 mil­lion for a com­pet­i­tive air­borne technique.
• Per­formed widely cited Land­sat inter­pre­ta­tion of Tarim Basin, China. For­mu­lated sev­eral new inter­pre­ta­tions of Cen­tral Asian tec­ton­ics. Papers have been trans­lated into Chinese.

Envi­ron­men­tal

• Con­ducted one of ear­li­est stud­ies relat­ing rates of chem­i­cal weath­er­ing to the chem­i­cal mass-balance of a small water­shed (at Coweeta, NC). Demon­strated that more than 60% of alu­mina was removed dur­ing soil for­ma­tion, that sul­fate was accu­mu­lat­ing rapidly in the upper­most soil lay­ers, and that processes of phys­i­cal denuda­tion were twice as effec­tive in this water­shed as were those of chem­i­cal weathering.
• Per­formed the first envi­ron­men­tal geo­logic assess­ment of Bear Lake area, Idaho (with one col­league). Pro­vided a base­line for mea­sure­ment of the impact of sub­se­quent development.
• Doc­u­mented on images the late Pleis­tocene exis­tence of a series of lakes in the Tarim, Djung­gar and Tur­pan basins of West­ern China. These were up to 4,000 feet deep and per­haps suf­fi­ciently large to sub­stan­tially mod­ify cen­tral Asian climates.
• Designed and taught cur­ricu­lum lead­ing to Asso­ciate Degree in Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence. Grad­u­ates read­ily found employ­ment as envi­ron­men­tal tech­ni­cians in major local corporations.

Min­eral Exploration

• Orga­nized and exe­cuted major remote-sensing based heli­copter recon­nais­sance of the Great Basin for gold.
• Dis­cov­ered and eval­u­ated approx­i­mately 100 mil­lion tons of oxide cop­per ore in Cen­tral Africa. The deposits have since been mined out.
• Eval­u­ated cement-grade lime­stone, phos­phate rock, olivine, and columbite-tantalite deposits.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Remote Sens­ing Con­sul­tant, Austin, TX, 1999-pres.
Clients incl. Reliant Indus­tries (India), Wood­side (Aus­tralia), Ocean, Devon, Shell, JGI (Japan), TTL

Shell Oil Com­pany, Hous­ton, Texas 1982–1999
Staff Research Geologist

Earth Satel­lite Cor­po­ra­tion, Bethesda, Mary­land 1977–1982
Direc­tor, Min­eral Exploration

Min­eral Explo­ration Con­sul­tant, Sylva, North Car­olina 1975–1977

South­west­ern Tech­ni­cal Insti­tute, Sylva, North Car­olina 1973–1975
Instruc­tor

Anglo-American Cor­po­ra­tion, Kitwe, Zam­bia 1966–1971
Staff Geol­o­gist

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Petro­leum Geol­o­gists (AAPG)
• Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Petro­leum Geol­o­gists (AIPG)
• Amer­i­can Soci­ety for Pho­togram­me­try and Remote Sens­ing (ASPRS)
• Geo­log­i­cal Soci­ety of Lon­don (GSL), Fellow
• Geo­log­i­cal Soci­ety of Amer­ica (GSA)
• Hous­ton Geo­log­i­cal Soci­ety,
  (Trea­surer of Inter­na­tional Explo­rationists’ Group, 1996–1999)
• The GEOSAT Com­mit­tee Inc.,
  Direc­tor (1990–2000)

EDUCATION

• Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity, M. S., Marine Geol­ogy and Geo­physics 1966
• Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia, B.A. with Hon­ors in Geol­ogy 1963.
  18 cred­its Anthropology.
• Royal School of Mines, Lon­don, Eng­land: post-graduate research.

LANGUAGES

Flu­ent in French, Span­ish. Pro­fi­cient in Ger­man, Swedish, Por­tuguese, Ital­ian.  Con­ver­sa­tional Japan­ese, Roman­ian & Bantu. Read­ing knowl­edge of Nor­we­gian, Dan­ish, Dutch, Afrikaans.

HONORS

Pecten Inter­na­tional Com­pany Award of Honor for Spe­cial Service

CIVIC

Vice Pres­i­dent for Cen­tral Texas, Swedish-American Cham­ber of Commerce-Texas 1999–2003

Austin Chor­dRangers — Bar­ber­shop Singing Group

PUBLICATIONS

Senior Author (with G.L. Prost) of Chap­ter on Remote Sens­ing for Hydro­car­bon Explo­ration:  Man­ual of Remote Sens­ing, 3rd Ed., vol.3, ASPRS 1999</p>

Asso­ciate Edi­tor, TPG (The Pro­fes­sional Geol­o­gist), mag­a­zine of AIPG

Numer­ous jour­nal arti­cles, talks, and com­pany reports (See Bib­li­og­ra­phy.)