Energy Geosciences at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

Energy Geosciences

Research Staff

Name Area of Interest Project Location
Austin, Jamie stratigraphy marine and lacustrine environments
Dalziel, Ian global tectonic processes, geography of ancient Earth Antarctica, Africa
Flemings, Peter Stratigraphy, basin analysis, basin-scale fluid flow, pore pressures in seafloor sediments, submarine landslides, oil and gas migration, methane hydrates, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Gulf of Mexico
Fulthorpe, Craig sequence stratigraphy, geological processes, global sea level New Zealand, New Jersey Shelf
Galloway, William clastic depositional systems Gulf of Mexico
Hayman, Nick faults, structural geology, tectonics, and lithospheric dynamics Japan, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Northwest, Tierra del Fuego
Lavier, Luc tectonics, structural & geodynamic evolution continental & oceanic rifts, collisional environments
Lawver, Lawrence paleogeographic reconstructions, paleo-seaways, aerogeophysics Arctic, Antarctica, Southeast Asia
Norton, Ian structure, regional-scale plate reconstructions continental margins
Olson, Hilary integration of biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental data (foraminifera) with core and seismic data Gulf of Mexico, Faeroe Basin, San Joaquin Valley (CA), New Jersey Margin and Texas
Sen, Mrinal seismic wave propagation including anisotropy, geophysical inverse problems, synthetic seismograms in heterogeneous media, seismology and inverse theory  
Snedden, John sequence and seismic stratigraphy, sedimentology, reservoir characterization, reservoir connectivity analysis, and unconventional resource evaluation Gulf of Mexico
Stoffa, Paul signal processing, acoustic and elastic wave propagation, modeling and inversion of geophysical data  
Van Avendonk, Harm Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in water resources engineering. Hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality modeling Gulf of Mexico, Arctic, plate boundaries