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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 principal investigator of CBTH.  Paul's interest in the CBTH study area extends back to the late 1980’s when he began work on Lake Maracaibo.  This work expanded to eastern Venezuela and Trinidad in the late 1990’s and continued with the formation of the DM2 consortium study of the Trinidad margin in 2001.  The DM2 Trinidad consortium (jointly supervised with Lesli Wood at the Bureau of Economic Geology) will end in December, 2005.  The CBTH project will allow Paul an opportunity to complete a regional study that encompasses all his previous and more localized studies.

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 has recently moved to Norway where he is an associate professor in Geology at the University of Stavanger.  He continues to work on the CBTH project.  Alejandro completed his PhD on the subsurface geology of the Maracaibo basin in 2003 and is now incorporating the regional geology of the entire northern margin of South America.  His interests are basin analysis, petroleum systems, and reservoir characterization.  Much of Alejandro’s PhD results on the Maracaibo basin will appear as a special issue of the AAPG Bulletin in February 2006.

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

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Xiangyang Xie


 
Xiangyang "Cheyenne" Xie received his PhD from the University of Wyoming in June 2007.  His topic was "Intracontinental Deformation and Sedimentary Response in the Mesozoic southern Ordos Basin, north central China."  Xian's current research interests include regional provenance studies of potential reservoir sandstones.  He will be working on samples collected by Alejandro Escalona and Xian will also make additional field studies to include Phase I and Phase II areas.  He is working with Kitty Milliken from the University of Texas and Kathie Marsaglia from Cal State Northridge.

Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
512-471-0308
xiangyang*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/xiangyang/

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Xiangyun Jiang


 
Xiangyun "Shawn" Jiang received her PhD from the China Petroleum University in Beijing in June 2007.  Her topic was "Fluvial reservoir architecture modeling and remaining oil distribution study" in Bohai basin, China.  Xiangyun'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
512-471-0306
xiangyun*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/xiangyun/

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Irina Filina


 
Irina Filina received her PhD from the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences in December 2007.  Her topic was "Geophysical investigations of subglacial lakes Vostok and Concordia, East Antarctica".  Irina will be producing gravity models for CBTH.

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

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Lisa Bingham


 
Lisa completed her undergraduate degree at UT in May, 2005, and is continuing as a fulltime employee on this study.  Lisa develops and updates the GIS database and website.  She is also the sponsor liaison and acting project manager for the CBTH project.  Lisa is available for training sponsors in the use of the CBTH database.

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

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Janet Everett


 
Janet Everett has joined our project as an administrative associate.  She will be helping us improve the functionality and user-friendliness of the CBTH website along with helping us with graphic designs and data compilation.

Job Title: Senior Administrative Associate
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
512-471-0432
janet*@ig.utexas.edu
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/janet/

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Eleine Vence
Eleine Vence is a graduate student at UT who is working on an MS degree on the subsurface structure and stratigraphy of the Guajira area of northern Colombia.  Eleine came to the project after working as an explorationist with Occidental in Bogota, Colombia.

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

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David Contreras


 
David Contreras is a graduate student at UT who is working on an MS degree on the subsurface structure and stratigraphy of the northern Maracaibo basin.  He is supported by PDVSA and will return to working as an explorationist with PDVSA upon his graduation.

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

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Will King


 


Will King is an undergraduate student working on a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Geology and will graduate in May 2008.  We are very excited to have him as a part of our team as he is a hardworker with initiative.  Will is also working on a research project mapping faults in western Jamaica using aerial photos and high-resolution topography.

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

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Jeff Storms


 

 
Jeff Storms is an undergraduate student working on a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Radio-TV-Film with a concentration in English.  He is keeping our article database up-to-date and organized.

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

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Sanchi Srivastava


  


Sanchi Srivastava is an undergraduate student working on a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Sciences.  She is working with Jeff Storms keeping our article database up-to-date and organized.

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

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