UTIG Joint Industry Funded Project

GBDS: Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis

Graduate Research Support Available

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Full support is available for Ph.D. and M.S. candidates with an interest in sedimentology and stratigraphy to work in a well-established project on Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Cenozoic and Meso-zoic depositional systems. Their primary role is to interpret, compile, synthesize, and integrate seismic and well data into existing and new stratigraphic frameworks, providing our industry sponsors with information necessary to find and exploit hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs but also to better understand this remarkable basin and its sedimentary evolution. Significant scientific problems remain to be investigated here and this large dataset will provide enough control to address the issues at hand.

Work would be funded as part of an industry consortium and would start in September of 2011. Our objective is to use seismic and well data archived in-house at UTIG and/or available in the public domain to map basin-wide depositional systems over Cenozoic and Mesozoic time. This includes incorporation of new data as becomes available as well as re-interpretation of older data in light of new drilling information. No previous experience in GOM geology is required but self-motivation, organization, and an ability to apply methods of sequence stratigraphy and de-positional systems mapping is a prerequisite. Highly desirable is previous use of workstations for correlation and mapping, although on-the-job mentoring is available. Over the course of this re-search assignment, the students will acquire skills and experience which are valued by industry but also gain a firm foundation for advancing our science in this natural laboratory of sedimen-tary processes.

For more information, contact Dr. John Snedden, jsnedden@ig.utexas.edu, or visit http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/jsnedden/ or the project web site:
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/gbds/gbds.htm