Current Grad Students:

I supervise 3 PhD and 5 MS students at the moment. They are involved in a variety of projects that revolve around field work in South America, Central America, Mexico, and the US Rocky Mountains.

 

Masters candidate Austin Baldwin approaching the high spot in
his thesis area, nearly 6,000 m, in the Central Andes of Argentina.
Ojos del Salado, the highest active volcano on the planet,
is obscured in the distance behind him.

 

Younis Altobi:  PhD Candidate.  BS, University of Leeds, 2001.
Sequence stratigraphic controls on structural deformation and dolomite distribution in carbonate strata, Cupido Formation, northeastern
México.

Austin Baldwin:  MS Candidate.  BS, University of Texas at Austin, 2001.
Faulting and volcanism at the southern end of the Puna plateau, Central Andes.

Matt Davis:  MS Candidate.  BS, Tennessee Technological University, 2001.
Contemporaneous deposition and deformation of Triassic and Jurassic siliciclastic and evaporite strata at Galeana, Sierra Madre Oriental,
México.

Christine Fox:  MS Candidate.  BS, University of Texas at Austin, 1995.
Physical modeling of particle trajectories, strain, and vertical-axis rotations during salient development.

Tim Gibbons:  MS Candidate.  BA, University of Texas at Austin, 2001.
Fracturing in Laramide-age folds of the northern Rocky Mountains.

Leonel Gomez:  PhD Candidate.  BS, Universidad Industrial de Santander, 1992.
Characterization of the spatial distribution of opening-mode fractures.

John Hooker:  MS Candidate.  BA, University of Texas at Austin, 2000.
Syn-depositional faulting of Cretaceous carbonate strata in the Sierra Madre Oriental,
México.

Faustino Monroy:  PhD Candidate.  MS, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, 1997.
Prediction of macrofractures from microfracture data in carbonate reservoirs:  Sierra Madre Oriental, Chiapas-Tabasco and Campeche Sound,
México.

 



Students
Past:

Christopher Hare:  MS, December 2002 (currently at Shell)
Analysis of fracture clustering using the continuous wavelet transform:  An example from the Marble Falls Limestone.

Orlando Ortega-Pérez:  PhD, May 2002 (currently at Shell)
Fracture-size scaling and stratigraphic controls on fracture intensity.

Joël LeCalvez:  PhD, May 2002 (currently at Schlumberger)
Physical modeling of normal faults and graben relays above salt.

Patrick Walsh:  MS, December 2000 (currently at Schlumberger)
Mechanics of graben evolution in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Vickye Vélez:  MS, August 2000 (currently at Ecopetrol)
Geometric analysis of the Reed Wash detachment fold train, west flank of San Rafael Swell, Utah.

Javier Moros-Otero:  MS, December 1999 (currently at Ecopetrol)
Relationship between fracture aperture and length in sedimentary rocks.

Laura Rico:  MS, August 1999 (currently teaching at Wilbur Wright College)
Geometric and kinematic evolution of a complete detachment fold in a natural cross-section.

Mario Aranda-García:  MS, May 1999 (currently at Pemex)
Evolution of Neogene contractional growth structures, southern Gulf of Mexico.

Rion Camerlo:  MS, December 1998 (currently at Chevron-Texaco)
Geometric and kinematic evolution of detachment folds, Monterrey salient, Sierra Madre Oriental,
México.

Christopher Zahm:  MS, August 1998 (currently at Conoco-Phillips after PhD at Colorado School of Mines)
Fracture control of groundwater flow in Edwards aquifer.

Ryan Mann:  MS, May 1998 (currently at Amerada Hess)
Finite element modeling of salt tongues in the Gulf of Mexico.

Orlando Ortega-Pérez:  MS, December 1997 (currently at Shell after PhD at UT)
Prediction of macrofracture properties using microfracture information, Mesaverde Group sandstones, San Juan basin, New Mexico.

Juan Carlos Jiménez:  MS, December 1997 (currently at Shell)
Structural styles of the Andean foothills, Putumayo basin, Colombia.

 


Last updated: 07/13/2009