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Current Education: PhD Candidate, Geology, UT Austin

UTIG advisors: Dr. Kirk McIntosh and Dr. Craig Fulthorpe

Academic Supervisor: Dr. Bob Tatham

Prior Education: BS, Geology 2002, College of Charleston, SC

Awards:
ConocoPhilips SPIRIT Scholar

Gale White Fellowship, Institute for Geophysics, UT Austin (Fall 2009)

About Jason
At the College of Charleston, Jason earned his BS in geology while working closely with Dr. Steven Jaume studying the seismicity and earthquake hazards of the Charleston area.  Working with Dr. Jaume, Jason also helped to locate sites for the installation of strong-motion seismometers for the USGS’s Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) program on the Charleston Peninsula.

In the summer of 2005, Jason participated in an internship with ConocoPhillips in Houston.  At ConocoPhilips, he had the opportunity to interpret 3D seismic reflection data from the structurally complex Lower Wilcox Formation in south Texas and helped to identify new prospects and recompletion candidates. 

Currently, Jason is pursuing his doctoral degree in geology and is primarily interested in the different controls on sedimentation in structurally complex areas. For his research, Jason was active in the acquisition and processing of 2D seismic reflection data from the Sandino Forearc Basin off the Pacific coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica during November-December 2004. The interpretation of these data will make up the bulk of his dissertation in which he hopes to model the structural and tectonic evolution of the Sandino Basin and also to distinguish between tectonic and eustatic signals in the stratigraphic record.  The results of this study will be used to draft an IODP proposal which will aim to identify new drill sites in the Sandino Basin in order to further understand the timing of events affecting the basin and thus a more detailed portrayal of the controls affecting sedimentation.