Resume

• 2011

  Alabama Geological Society

  President

  2002-2004\nField trip leader/co-leader

  Geological Society of America

  GSA Fellow\nCoal Geology Division\nSedimentary Geology Division\nStructure and Tectonics Division

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists

  Charles Taylor Fellow\nHonorary Member

  Energy Minerals Division\nAssociate Editor

  AAPG Bulletin

  Tulsa Geological Society

  Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)

  Frank Kottlowski Memorial Presentation Award

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists

  Energy Minerals Division

  Gilbert H. Cady Award

  For outstanding contributions to the field of coal geology. My efforts have focused on the geological characterization of coal as a natural gas reservoir

  petroleum source rock

  and geologic carbon sink.

  Geological Society of America

  Coal Geology Division

  Best Poster Award

  Awarded to Conn Wethington and Jack Pashin

  Geological Society of America South-Central Section Meeting

  Manhattan

  Kansas

  GSA Fellow

  Geological Society of America

  Award of Excellence for “Top 10” Presentation

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists

  Keynote Lecturer

  XV International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy

  Utrecht

  Netherlands

  Frank Kottlowski Memorial Presentation Award

  Awarded to Jack C. Pashin

  Marcella McIntyre

  and Richard. E. Carroll

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists Energy Minerals Division

  2nd Place Oral Presentation

  awarded to Mercy Achang

  Jack Pashin

  Stone Urban

  Conn Wethington

  and Sam Martin

  38th Annual Technical Conference

  National Association of Black Geoscientists. Fayetteville Arkansas

  Ralph Gray Award (Outstanding Publication)

  For the book

  “Applied Coal Petrology: The Role of Petrology in Coal Utilization” (Awarded to I. S. Ruiz

  J. C. Crelling

  J. S. Esterle

  R. B. Finkelman

  S. F. Greb

  G. D. Mitchell

  J. C. Pashin

  N. J. Wagner

  C. R. Ward

  M. Coertzen

  R. H.

  Matjie

  and J. C. van Dyk).

  The Society for Organic Petrology

  Charles Taylor Fellow

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists

  Distinguished Service Award

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists Energy Minerals Division

  State Geologist's Award and Staff Achievement Award

  State Geologists Award for distinguished service\nStaff Achievement award for exceptional job performance

  Geological Survey of Alabama

  Keynote lecturer

  The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) Annual Meeting

  Beijing

  China

  Chair

  GSA Coal Geology Division

  Geological Society of America

  Keynote lecturer

  International Academic Symposium on Deep Coalbed Methane

  China University of Geosciences

  Beijing

  China

  Ralph Miller Best Paper Award

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists Eastern Section

  Keynote Lecturer

  International Conference on Coal Science and Technology

  Penn State University

  Blue Flame Award

  Recognition for career contributions to unconventional hydrocarbon development in Alabama.

  Coalbed Methane Association of Alabama

  Member

  AAPG Distinguished Lecture Committee

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists

  Honorary Member

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists Energy Minerals Division

• 1982

  Ph.D

  Geology

• 1978

  Reservoir Geology

  Geochemistry

  Petrology

  Stratigraphy

  Geology

  Mineral Exploration

  Reservoir Management

  Petroleum Geology

  Structural Geology

  Sedimentology

  Coal Geology

  Analysis

  CBM

  Coalbed methane

  Minerals

  Basin analysis

  Hydrology

  Sedimentary geology

  Unconventional

  Structural geology

  Sponge-microbial mound facies in Mississippian Tuscumbia Limestone

  Walker County

  Alabama

  Steven D. Mann

  David C. Kopaska-Merkel

  AAPG Bulletin

  v. 97

  p. 1871-1893

  Sponge-microbial mound facies in Mississippian Tuscumbia Limestone

  Walker County

  Alabama

  William A. Thomas

  Marcella McIntyre

  Ann Arnold

  David Kopaska-Merkel

  Gigantic

  gaseous mushwads in Cambrian shale: Conasauga Formation

  southern Appalachians

  USA

  Coal as a petroleum source rock and reservoir rock

  Robert Gastaldo

  Sequence stratigraphy

  paleoclimate

  and tectonics of coal-bearing strata

  Petroleum source rock evaluation of the upper Eocene Kopili Shale

  Bengal Basin

  Bangladesh

  Effects of internal gradients on pore-size distribution in shale

  David C. Kopaska-Merkel

  Nicholas J. Minter

  Ronald J. Buta

  A Westphalian megatracksite in Walker County

  Alabama

  Hydrodynamics of coalbed methane reservoirs in the Black Warrior Basin: key to understanding reservoir performance and environmental issues

  Rebecca Dodge

  Matt Grobe

  American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 59

  715 p.

  Carbon dioxide sequestration in geological media—State of the science

  Cortland Eble

  Ron Martino

  Steve Greb

  Geological Society of America Special Paper 441

  p. 235-248

  Appalachian sedimentary cycles during the Pennsylvanian: Changing influences of sea level

  climate

  and tectonics

  Stratigraphy and structure of coalbed methane reservoirs in the United States: an overview

  The Appalachian and Black Warrior foreland basins in the eastern United States

  Reevaluation of the Bedford-Berea sequence in Ohio and adjacent states: forced regression in a foreland basin

  Analysis of the stress field in the DeSoto Canyon Salt Basin for ensuring safe offshore carbon storage

  Pete Walsh

  Geologic assessment and injection design for a pilot CO2-enhanced oil recovery and sequestration demonstration in a heterogeneous oil reservoir: Citronelle Field

  Alabama

  Tara Peavy

  Bill Hames

  Detrital history of the Lower Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation in the Cahaba Synclinorium of Alabama

  The influence of moisture on the permeability of crushed shale samples

  Fracture architecture of the High Plains Aquifer

  northeastern Texas Panhandle: Implications for geologic CO2 storage

  Geologic Considerations for CO2 Storage in Coal

  Extensional structures of the Alabama promontory and Black Warrior foreland basin: Styles and relationship to the Appalachian fold-thrust belt

  Dennis Harry

  Brown Hawkins

  Extensional structures of the Alabama promontory and Black Warrior foreland basin: Styles and relationship to the Appalachian fold-thrust belt

  Jack

  Oklahoma State University

  Geological Survey of Alabama

  My formal training focused on stratigraphy

  sedimentology

  and paleontology

  but my research career has led me into diverse fields of field and laboratory investigation. My approach to research has always been driven by problem solving. As I set out to identify the geologic controls on coalbed methane production during the 1980s

  it became clear that classical sedimentary geology would only take me part of the way toward my goal. Thus began a journey into structural geology

  basin analysis

  hydrology

  petrology

  and geochemistry that continues today. My research program spans a range of topics associated with unconventional gas exploration and development (coal and shale)

  conventional hydrocarbon reservoirs

  and geologic CO2 storage. Much of this program is directed toward environmentally responsible approaches to hydrocarbon development and electrical generation.

  Oklahoma State University

  Director

  Energy Investigations Program

  Led research on energy resources

  particularly unconventional reservoirs and carbon sequestration. While at the Survey I managed a great staff with broad-ranging capabilities in sedimentary geology

  structural geology

  petrology

  and hydrology.

  Geological Survey of Alabama

  Bachelor's degree

  Geology

  Bradley University

  Special Problems in Earth Science

  Advanced Studies in Geology

  Advanced Methods in Structural Geology

  Basin Evolution

  Master's Thesis

  Unconventional Reservoirs

  Doctoral Dissertation Research

  Sequence Stratigraphy

  Colloquium

  Exploration Prospect Evaluation