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This page contains contact information for all the members of the CBTH Phase I project. From here you can send e-mail to project members, or visit their personal home pages.

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Paul Mann, PhD


 


Paul is the co-principal investigator of CBTH Phase II which began in September of 2008.  His main research interest is the tectonics and petroleum geology of sedimentary basins.  From 2005-2008, he was principal investigator of the CBTH Phase I project.  The CBTH project is providing Paul an opportunity to complete a mega-regional study of the Caribbean that he and 25 UT graduate students have previously studied in more localized areas.

Job Title: Senior Research Scientist
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
512-471-0452
paulm*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/paulm/

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Alejandro Escalona, PhD


Alejandro completed his PhD in 2003 in the UT Department of Geological Sciences and a postdoctoral study at the UT Institute for Geophysics in 2006 on the basin to reservoir scale geology and geophysics of the Maracaibo basin, Venezuela.  His main research interests are basin analysis, petroleum systems, and reservoir characterization.   His PhD and postdoctoral work was published as a special issue of AAPG Bulletin in April, 2006 which he co-edited with Paul Mann.  In 2007, he became an assistant professor of geology at the Department of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Stavanger in Norway where he is co-principal investigator of the CBTH Phase II project.  In 2008, AAPG awarded him the J.C. "Cam" Sproule Memorial Award for one of his papers on the Maracaibo basin.

Job Title: Associate Professor
University of Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway
alejandro.escalona*@uis.no
http://www.ux.uis.no/escalona/

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Willy Fjeldskaar, PhD

 
Dr. Willy Fjeldskaar is a senior research scientist at the International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS) and a professor at the University of Stavanger. His main research areas are basin modeling, with emphasis in the tectonic processes and thermal history during basin evolution. He has mainly focused on the evolution of the North Sea and Norwegian Sea.  He will be working with the CBTH project on basin modeling studies in the Caribbean.

Job Title: Senior Research Scientist
International Research institute of Stavanger and University of Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway
http://www.uis.no

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Carrie Whitehill, PhD
Carrie received her PhD in May 2009 from Stanford University where her research has focused on: (1) geological and thermal constraints on the structural evolution of continental lithospheric extension, and (2) the tectonomorphology of the northern San Andreas fault and related active plate boundary faults.  The former is a collaborative effort between Carrie and colleagues at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology; the latter is a collaborative effort with the USGS Earthquake Hazards Team in Menlo Park. Carrie's current research activities for CBTH will include interpreting seismic data, creating surface maps, and converting vintage well data to digital format.

Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
carrie*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/carrie/

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Carlos Vargas, PhD

 

 

 

  
Carlos received his PhD in October of 2003 from the Techical University of Catalonia, Spain where his research was focused on wave propagation and tomography applied in Columbia.  His current research is focused on attenuation tomography, discrimination of scattering, and intrinsic absorption in the lithosphere.

Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
cavargasj*@gmail.com
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/cvargas/

 

 

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Yang Wenxiu, PhD


 
Yang completed her PhD at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007.  Her dissertation topic was "The Research on Sediment-Diagenesis of Putaohua Oil Group in Gulong area, Songliao basin."  Yang began working with CBTH at the University of Stavanger in June 2009.  She has worked with well log interpretation and integration of various subsurface data.  She is interested in geological structure and its control on sediment and diagenesis.  Yang will focus her efforts on continuing to map the offshore area of Guyana and Suriname.

Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway
wenxiu.yang*@uis.no
http://www.uis.no

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Lisa Bingham


 
Lisa completed her undergraduate degree at UT in May, 2005, and has worked as the project manager and sponsor contact person for Phases I and II of the CBTH project. Her main research interests are developing GIS databases. Lisa is available for training CBTH sponsors in the use of the GIS-based CBTH database.

Job Title: Research Scientist Associate
Department of Petroleum Engineering
University of Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway
lisa.bingham*@uis.no
 

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Karen Barton


 
Karen Barton is a senior administrative associate at the UT Institute for Geophysics and helps maintain the CBTH website and improve its functionality and user-friendliness. She also assists the CBTH project with shipping, data compilation, and manuscript preparation.

Job Title: Senior Administrative Associate
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
512-471-0362
karen*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/karen/

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Ruth Costley

 

  
Ruth is a research associate employed by the CBTH project and will help maintain and expand the GIS database. She completed her masters degree in GIS at the University of Redlands in 2007.  Her main research interests are in developing custom GIS applications.

Job Title: Research Scientist Associate
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
512-471-0324
ruthc*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/ruthc/

 

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Jeff Storms


 

  
Jeff Storms is a research assistant employed by the CBTH project to help with graphic design work, to convert data to digital format, to make maps in GIS, to maintain the CBTH website, and to keep the database up-to-date and organized. He completed a BS degree in Radio-TV-Film in May 2009.

Job Title: Research Assistant
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
jeffs*@ig.utexas.edu

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Tricia Alvarez

 


Tricia Alvarez is a graduate student from Trinidad and Tobago pursuing a PhD study within the framework of the CBTH project at the UT Institute for Geophysics.  Tricia graduated in December 2008 with a Masters of Science degree in Geosciences from UT.  Her MS thesis titled "Tectonic geomorphology of the eastern Trinidad shelf: Implications for influence of structure on reservoir distribution and nature in older basin fill," was supervised by Dr. Lesli Wood at the UT Bureau of Economic Geology. Her research interest is in the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of shelf to deepwater basin systems in the tectonically active southeastern Caribbean area. Her PhD study at UT, projected to be completed in 2012, will be jointly supervised by Drs. Paul Mann, Lesli Wood, and Alejandro Escalona.

Graduate student
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
talvarez*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/students/talvarez/

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Stefan Punnette


 

 


Stefan Punnette is a graduate student from Trinidad and Tobago working on a two-year Master of Science degree with the CBTH project at the UT Institute for Geophysics that will be completed in May, 2010. His main research interests are tectonic controls on sedimentation and basin analysis. His MS topic is "2D and 3D seismic stratigraphic and structural study of the North Coast Marine Area, offshore Trinidad". His work is supported by a fellowship and data provided by British Gas of Trinidad and Tobago.

Graduate student
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
stefan*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/students/stefan/

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Rocio Bernal Olaya


 

 
Rocio Bernal Olaya is a graduate student from Colombia joining the CBTH project at the UT Institute for Geophysics.  She will be working on her Master of Science degree in Geology to be completed in May 2011.  Her main research interests are basin geology, structure, stratigraphy, and petroleum applications. Her thesis topic is " Tectonics, Stratigraphy and Geomodeling of the Lower Magdelena basin, Colombia."

Graduate student
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
rbernalo*@mail.utexas.edu

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/students/rbernalo/

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Henry Campos

 

  
Henry is a graduate student from Venezuela working on the CBTH project at the UT Institute for Geophysics.  He will be working on his Master of Science degree in Geology to be completed in May 2011.  His thesis topic is "Tectonics and petroleum potential of the Llanos Orientales foreland basin, Colombia."

Graduate student
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
henryc*@ig.utexas.edu

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/students/henryc/

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Anthony Rodriguez

 


Anthony joins the CBTH working group as graduate student.  He will be working on his Master of Science degree in Geology to be completed in May 2011.  His thesis topic is " Subsurface mapping and hydrocarbon potential of Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary sequences and structures in the Mexican sector of the Gulf of Mexico."

Graduate student
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
anthony*@ig.utexas.edu

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/students/anthony/

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Sanchi Srivastava

  
 
Sanchi Srivastava is a UT undergraduate student employed by the CBTH project to help convert data to digital format, and keep the database up-to-date and organized. She will complete a BS degree in Computer Sciences in May, 2010.

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
sanchi*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/students/sanchi/

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