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Kitty L. Milliken                                                                                                                    Fall 2004


The University of Texas at Austin

Department of Geological Sciences

1 University Station C1100

Austin, TX 78712-0254

(512) 471-6082   471-9425 (FAX)  email:  kittym@mail.utexas.edu

 

Education

Vanderbilt University,                                                                B.A. 1975

Indiana University field camp                                                     1974 (summer)

University of Texas at Austin                                                     M.A. 1977

Thesis:  Silicified evaporite nodules from the Mississippian rocks of

southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee: unpub..M.A.thesis,

Univ. Texas at Austin, 121 p. (Supervisor, R. L. Folk)

University of Texas at Austin                                                     Ph.D. 1985

Dissertation:  Petrology and burial diagenesis of Plio-Pleistocene

sediments, northern Gulf of Mexico:  unpub. Ph.D. dissertation,

University of Texas at Austin, 112 p. (Supervisor, L. S. Land)

 

Employment

Senior Research Scientist (microbeam and XRD facilities)                 2004-present

Research Scientist (microbeam and XRD facilities)                           1999-2004

Research Associate (microbeam and XRD facilities)                         1997-1999

Visiting Researcher, Institut Français du Pétrole                         1996-1997

Research Scientist Associate, University of Texas at Austin        1987-1997

Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin                                      Spring 1991,1995,1998-present

Research Geologist, Exxon Production Research Co.                   1985-1986

Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology                      1979-1980

Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin                       1975-1979, 1981

Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University                                   1971-1975

 

Scholarships and Academic Awards

“Bronze Award” for ‘Teaching with Technology’, IITAP Program

            University of Texas at Austin                                         2003

SEPM Excellence in Poster Presentation Award

            (with co-authors)                                                           2001

 

Invited Lectures and Symposia

Washington and Lee University, invited lecture, fall 2004

East Texas Geological Society, invited lecture, fall 2002

Instituto de Geologia, UNAM, 1-week short course in clastic diagenesis, summer 2002

Trinity University, Department of Geology, invited lecture, spring 2002

 

Professional Memberships and Activities

American Association of Petroleum Geologists

            Member, Committee for Core and Sample Preservation, 2000-2002

            Member, Publications Committee, 1990-1995

Session co-chair, Sandstone Diagenesis and Reservoir Characteristics, AAPG Annual Meeting,  Salt Lake City, May 1998

Geological Society of America

At-large-member, Education Committee, 2002-2005

NSF (DUE-CCLI) Panel, summer, 2001

Ocean Drilling Program

            Shipboard Sedimentologist, Leg 149, Iberia Abyssal Plain, Spring 1993

SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)

            Co-Editor, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2004-2008

            Chairman, Clastic Diagenesis Research Group, 1991, 2003

            Associate Editor, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 1993-2000