Biography

University of Houston Downtown - Geology

Adjunct Professor at University of Houston Downtown
Oil & Energy
Gerald
Kuecher
Spring, Texas
Dr. Kuecher graduated from LSU under the guidance of Drs. Harry Roberts, Jim Coleman, and Arnold Bouma. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on the subsidence properties of recently deposited deltaic sediments while his M.S. thesis focused on the forcing functions responsible for the deposition of ancient tidal rhythmites.


Gerald J. Kuecher worked 4.5 years as a Consultant to Saudi Aramco and 4 years as Geoscience Project Manager at Knowledge Reservoir in Houston. Prior to this he served 6.5 years at Baker Atlas as Sedimentologist and Image Log Analyst, 7 years at Marathon and 3 years at Amoco in the role of international petroleum geologist. He also served 4 years as a university educator at Northwestern University and Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago and today teaches at the University of Houston, Downtown. He has extensive knowledge of rifts and rift sediments with experience in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt, the South China Sea of Indonesia, the Caspian Sea, the Celtic Sea, the Gulf Coast of the U.S., and has expertise in reservoir characterization, resolution, anisotropy, and petroleum systems in exploration.


Dr. Kuecher has written numerous articles on such diverse topics as deep-water sediments, deltaic sediments, tidal sediments, modern sediments, ancient sediments, subsidence, faulting, fluid flow, and diagenesis to the application of electromagnetics, high resolution seismic, and ground-penetrating radar in sedimentology. Gerald is a well-rounded scientist who has the abilities to integrate knowledge from various sources to answer fundamental problems in sedimentology. Dr. Kuecher has participated in the AAPG Visiting Geologist Program since 1998.

Gerald is currently semi-retired and teaching geosciences at the University of Houston Downtown. He also has published two very popular books, namely Fruitcake Hill (2008) and Fruitcake Hill and Beyond (2013). These books can be accessed through Amazon Gerald Kuecher books.

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