Mr. Preston Wahl

Research Interests

Current M.S. Research:

• Application of detrital zircon geochronology for provenance of sediment supply to the Gulf Coastal Plain in Texas, late Paleocene early Eocene Wilcox Group

Additional Research Interests:

• Sedimentary basin and stratigraphic analysis, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir characterization, sedimentary and petroleum systems

Experience

• Research Member: Petroleum Research, Education, and Entrepreneurship Center of Excellence (PREEC), University of North Dakota, UND Geothermal Laboratory, (Summers 2009-2011) 

• U.S. Department of Energy National Geothermal Student Competition (NGSC), (2010-2011)

• Co-op, Enhanced Bakken Recovery Research Program, Energy and Environmental Research Center, Oil and Gas Division, Grand Forks, ND, (Summer 2012)

• B.S. Geology Thesis: Reservoir Characterization of Lone Butte Field within the Williston Basin, Western North Dakota

• B.S. Geological Engineering Design Project: Development of Special Waste Landfill Pre-Application Materials and General Landfill Siting Criteria in North Dakota

Awards/Honors

• ConocoPhillips Berg-Hughes Fellowship recipient, Texas A&M University, (2013-2014)
• Recipient of PREEC Grant, as well as Bernold M. Hanson, Henry Hinds, William and Inez McDonald, Raymond and Edyth Sullivan, Hugh and Ruth Palmer, N. N. Kohanowski, and Community of Learners Scholarships, (2009-2013)
• President’s Honor Roll, University of North Dakota, (2009-2010)

Affiliations

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), (2012-Current)
• Sigma Gamma Epsilon, National Honor Society for Earth Sciences, (2012-Current)
• Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society, (2011-Current)
• Texas A&M Geology and Geophysics Society, (2013-Current)