Who Teach and Conduct Research in
Petroleum Geology & Geophysics
Wayne M. Ahr - Email: ahr@tamu.edu, (979) 845-2447
Professor*; Ph.D., Rice University, 1967
- Petroleum geology with emphasis on carbonate reservoir rock and petrophysical properties, and carbonate sedimentology/stratigraphy, particularly Paleozoic platforms and reefs. Research Specifics
Robert R. Berg - Email: berg@geo.tamu.edu, (979) 845-2460
Professor Emeritus and M.T. Halbouty Chair in Geology; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1951
- Sedimentology, petroleum geology: depositional environments for reservoir sandstones; hydrostatic and hydrodynamic trapping of oil and gas.
William R. Bryant - Email: wbryant@ocean.tamu.edu, (979) 845-2680
Professor and Head of Oceanography Department; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1966
- Geotechnical and geoacoustic properties of marine sediments, geology and geophysics of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Russian Arctic, marine sedimentation, microfabrics of fine-grained marine sediments
Thomas A. Blasingame - Email: t-blasingame@tamu.edu, (979) 845-2292
Associate Professor* and holder of the Robert L. Whiting Professorship in Petroleum Engineeering*; Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1989
- Petroleum engineering: reservoir engineering and pressure transient testing, reservoir description, technical mathematics/numerical analysis.
Fred Chester - Email: chesterf@geo.tamu.edu, (979) 845-2292
Professor; Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1988
- Tectonophysics, experimental rock deformation, mechanics of seismic faulting, physical and chemical effects of fluids on deformation.
Steven L. Dorobek - Email: dorobek@geo.tamu.edu, (979-845-0635
Professor and holder of the Michel T. Halbouty Chair; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1984
- Stratigraphy and Sedimentology; regional stratigraphic studies (outcrop and subsurface); tectonics and sedimentation; evolution of sedimentary basins; carbonate platform-to-basin transitions; carbonate reservoir studies; deep-water carbonate and siliciclastic sedimentation.
Anthony F. Gangi - Email: gangi@geo.tamu.edu, (979) 845-1381
Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1960
- Theoretical geophysics and seismology, seismic exploration, filter theory.
Richard Gibson - Email: gibson@geo.tamu.edu, (979) 862-8653
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
- Reflection seismology: seismic wave propagation, seismic imaging and inversion, borehole geophysics, optimization of survey design, time-lapse geophysics, crustal seismology.
Luc T. Ikelle - Email: ikelle@geo.tamu.edu, (979) 862-4296
Professor; Ph.D., Paris 7 University, 1986 and Director of the Consortium on Automated Seismic Processing (CASP)
- Seismic exploration and production: processing for near surface effects, multiple attenuation, high resolution imaging and anisotropy.
Jerry Jensen - Email: jensen@spindletop.tamu.edu, (979) 845-2206
Associate Professor*; Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin, 1986
- Reservoir characterization, upscaling single and multiphase permeability, advanced reservoir simulation, geological modeling, integrating petrophysics and geology, openhole well logging.
Brann Johnson - Email: johnson@geo.tamu.edu, (979) 845-3297
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Tectonophysics; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1975
- Geomechanics and structural geology: field, theoretical, and experimental studies of fault development; fluid-flow properties of faults and faulted reservoirs; brittle fracture; fracture permeability and the effects of water/rock interactions; landslide mechanics.
James E. Russell - Email: russell@spindletop.tamu.edu, (979) 845-2241
Professor*; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1966
- Rock mechanics aspects and computer simulation of borehole stability, fracture mechanic
William Sager - Email: wsager@ocean.tamu.edu, (979) 845-9828
Professor**; Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1983
- Paleomagnetism, plate tectonics, magnetostratigraphy, marine geophysics, magnetic and gravity field interpretation, high-resolution seafloor mapping.
Roger Sassen - Email: sassen@gerg.tamu.edu, (979) 862-2323
Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1975.
- Source rock and petroleum geochemistry, hydrocarbon seeps, gas hydrates, authigenic carbonate.
Brian Willis - Email: willis@geo.tamu.edu, (979) 845-2441
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Binghamton University, New York, 1991
- Sequence stratigraphy and process sedimentology of clastic depositional systems, controls on deposition within foreland basins, quantifying depositional heterogeneity within outcrops and reservoirs, and petroleum geology.
Joel S. Watkins - Email: watkins@geo.tamu.edu, (979) 845-1300
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1961
- Petroleum geophysics, seismic interpretation, petroleum migration and entrapment.
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