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BIOGRAPHY:

Michael H. Gardner is an Associate Professor at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.  He received his B.A. in Geology from the University of Colorado and his Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines. He has been conducting outcrops studies of clastic depositional systems for the past ten years.  This applied research focuses on combining sequence stratigraphy with reservoir characterization through integrated outcrop and subsurface field studies. He is Director of the Slope and Basin Reservoir consortium at the Colorado School of Mines.  His current research is on deep-water clastics of the Permian Brushy Canyon Formation in West Texas.

B.A. Geology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1983
Ph.D. Geology, Colorado School of Mines (CSM), Golden, 1993

A. High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy
B. Clastic Sedimentology 
C. Basin Analysis 
D. Reservoir Characterization

A. Present Position: Associate Research Professor, Colorado School of Mines (January 1995-present).
Implementing multidisciplinary outcrop and subsurface characterization studies of siliciclastic depositional systems using architectural element analysis and process-response sedimentology within a high-resolution stratigraphic framework. Studies presently focus on slope and basin deep-water clastics of the Permian Brushy Canyon Fm., Delaware and Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas. Also conducting basin analysis study of lacustrine-rift systems in the Asri and Sunda Basins, offshore Southeast Sumatra, Indonesia.

B. Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (April 1991-April1995).
Implementing reservoir characterization and basin analysis studies of siliciclastic depositional systems. Studies include the Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Permian Delaware Mountain Group, and Lower Cretaceous Fall River Formation.

C. Research Fellow, Genetic Stratigraphy Research Program, Colorado School of Mines (July 1986-March 1991).
Conducting sequence stratigraphic and sedimentologic study of the Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone of central Utah; Ph.D. research program.

D. Graduate Research Assistant, Alaska Katmai Project, Colorado School Mines Geoscience Institute, (July 1990-August 1990).
Field mapping, stratigraphic, and sedimentological analysis of the Hemlock and West Foreland Formations; Tertiary volcano-clastic braidplain conglomerates of an active forearc basin.

E. Summer Professional, ARCO Alaska, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska (June 1987-September 1987).
Conducting detailed reservoir characterization and sequence stratigraphic study of inner-shelf sandstone deposits of the Triassic Sag River Formation, Prudhoe Bay field.

F. Project Geologist, Research Planning Institute, Inc. (RPI), Boulder, Colorado (November 1983-May 1986).
Working on integrated regional stratigraphic studies on Cretaceous strata in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming as part of multiclient consortium. Responsibilities include outcrop stratigraphic and sedimentological analysis, subsurface mapping, core description and facies analysis, and subsurface field studies of the Lower Cretaceous Muddy Sandstone and Upper Cretaceous Frontier Sandstone. 

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
• RMS-SEPM (Rocky Mountain Section)
• West Texas Geological Society

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, SEPM Excellence of Oral Presentation, 1998
• PBS-SEPM Noon Luncheon Program, Best Paper Award, 1996-1997 
• PBS-SEPM Noon Luncheon Program, Best Paper Award, 1995-1996 
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, SEPM Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, 1996
• West Texas Geological Society, Best Poster Award, 1992
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Grant in Aid of Research
• Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Donald L. Smith Research Grant
• Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey, Student Research Grant
• Sigma XI Grant in Aid of Research
• Petroleum Research Fund Fellow
• NAGT/USGS, Geology Field Camp Award
• NROTC Scholarship

• Chairman of AAPG oral/poster session on New Insights into deepwater depositional systems and processes,AAPG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000

• Co-Instructor, GE 689: A Field Seminar on Advanced Concepts in the Sedimentary Geology of Slope and Basin Deposits Sedimentology, Colorado School of Mines, 2000

• Convener of Annual Consortium Field Conference, Resource Optimization of Slope and Basin Reservoirs through Enhanced Imaging of Reservoir Architecture," Annual field trip for Members of the Slope and Basin Consortium, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, West Texas, 1995-2000

• Instructor of field course,  Sequence Stratigraphy and Facies Architecture of Deepwater Clastic Depositional Systems: Field Course to Selected Outcrops of Permian Brushy Canyon Fm, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, West Texas,(6) Statoil, (5) Oryx Energy Company, (3) Conoco Oil Company, (2) Amoco Production Company, (3) British Petroleum, (2) Texaco, (1) Exxon Production Research Company, (2) Elf Exploration Company, Marathon Oil Company (1), 1995-2000 

• Instructor of field course, ìSequence Stratigraphy and Facies Architecture of Fluvial-Deltaic and Valley-Fill Reservoir Analogs: Field Course to Selected Outcrops of the Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, central Utah, and Lower Cretaceous Muddy Sandstone and Fall River Formation, Black Hills," (3) Oryx Energy Company, (2) Conoco, 1997-1999

• Instructor of ìPrinciples of Dynamic Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy and Applications to the Petroleum Geology of Siliciclastic Depositional Systems, Short Course, Maxus Energy Company, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1996-2000

• Keynote Speaker, Statoil Research Summit: ìProcesses, Stratigraphy and Lithology Distribution in Deepwater Clastic SystemsóAn Update," Trondheim, Norway, September 13-16,1998

• Invited Speaker, The Third EAGE/AAPG Research Symposium: ìDeveloping and Managing Turbidite Reservors, Case Histories and Experiences" Almeria, Spain, October 3-9,1998

• Co-chairman of SEPM oral session on ìCretaceous from Pore to Basin,AAPG Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 1998

• Invited Speaker, The Guadalupe Mountains Symposium, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Carlsbad, New Mexico, April 22-26,1998

• Co-chairman of Kyle Johnson M.S. thesis committee, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado Schoo of Mines, 1998

• Co-chairman of SEPM oral session on ìStratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of Incised Valley-fills,AAPG Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, 1997

• Co-convener of Joint Industry-Academic Workshop, ìHydrocarbon Play Concepts for Deep-Water Reservoirs: CSM-Texaco Workshop, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 1997

• Co-chairman of Session on ìReservoir Architecture,AAPG/EAGE Research Symposium, Compartmentalized Reservoirs: Their Detection, Characterization and Management, Houston, Texas, 1996

• Co-leader of Statoil and Maxus Energy Company, Clastic Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Field Seminar to the Gallup Sandstone and Mesa Verde Group of the Four Corners Area, Ferron Sandstone of central Utah, and Muddy Sandstone and Fall River Formation of the Black Hills, 1996

• Leader of field trip, ìStratigraphic Changes in Facies Architecture of the Permian Brushy Canyon Fm in Guadalupe Mountains National Park: West Texas," Field trip for AAPG and SEPM Southwest Section Meeting, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 1996

• Principal Speaker, The Third JNOC-TRC International Symposium: ìReservoir Characterization:  Integration of Geology, Geophysics and Reservoir Engineering" Japan National Oil Corporation, Technology Research Center, Chiba, Japan, February 20-23,1995

• Leader of field trip, ìSequence Stratigraphy, Facies Architecture and Permeability Structure of Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoir Analogs: Field trip to Selected Outcrops of the Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, central Utah," Field trip for AAPG Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 1994

• Instructor of "Advanced Sequence Stratigraphy Field Seminar, Geology 191, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994 

• Co-chairman of Widya Dharmasamadhi M. S. thesis committee, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994

• Leader of field trip, ìSequence stratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Fall River Formation, Black Hills, Western South Dakota and Northeastern Wyoming,(3) Bureau of Economic Geology, Deltas Industrial Associates program, 1992-1994; (1) Statoil,1995; (2) Oryx Energy Company,1995-1996

• Instructor of field course, ìAdvanced Sequence Stratigraphy Field Seminar, Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, central Utah,1991-1994, (1) Sponsors of Genetic Stratigraphy Research Program, Colorado School of Mines, (3) Mobil Research and Development Corporation, (1) Conoco Oil Company, (1) Chevron Overseas Production Company, (2) Chevron Corporation, (1) Amoco Production Company, (1) Exxon Production Research Company, (1) Statoil

• Leader of field trip, ìSequence stratigraphy and facies architecture of siliciclastic deep-water depositional systems, Permian Delaware Mountain Group, West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, Phillips Petroleum Company, 1993; Roswell Geological Society, 1993; British Petroleum, 1994; Shell Offshore Inc., 1995 

• Co-leader of field trip, Architecture and permeability structure of fluvial-deltaic sandstones within a sequence stratigraphic framework, SEPM theme meeting, ìMesozoic of the Western Interior field trip, central Utah, 1992

• Co-chairman of poster session on ìFluvial Responses to Base Level Change, SEPM theme meeting, ìMesozoic of the Western Interior, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1992

• Co-leader of field trip, Architecture and permeability structure of fluvial-deltaic sandstones within a sequence stratigraphic framework, (3) Bureau of Economic Geology, Industrial Associates field trips, 1991-1992; Statoil, 1992

• Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1991
• Exxon Production Research Company, 1991
• Shell Oil Company, Bellaire Research Lab, 1991
• Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1992-1993
• Unocal Oil Company, 1992
• Chevron Oil Field Research Company, 1992
• Mobil Research and Development Corporation, 1992
• Northwestern University, 1993
• Roswell Geological Society, 1993
• West Texas Geological Society, 1993; Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993
• Chevron USA, 1993
• Ensign Oil Company, 1993
• ARCO Exploration and Production Technology, 1994
• Conoco Oil Company, 1994
• Colorado School of Mines, VAN TUYL Lecture Series,1995
• Japan National Oil Corporation, 1995
• Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995
• Statoil, 1995-1998, Exxon Production Research, 1996, 1999
• Maxus Energy Company 1996-1999
• Conoco Inc., 1996-2000
• Unocal Energy Resources Division 1996-1997
• Indonesian Petroleum Association, 1996; Elf Exploration Company, 1997
• British Petroleum, 1997
• Conoco Norway, 1997, Amoco, 1998
• Mobil Oil, 1998; PBS-SEPM Noon Luncheon Program, 1996-2000
• University of Wyoming, 1999, Colorado State University, 1999.
• Instructor, Petroleum Engineering Field Camp, Colorado School of Mines, 1988, 1990
• Teaching Assistant, GE 101, Colorado School of Mines, 1988, 1989, 1990
• Consultant, Axem Resources, Inc., Whiting Petroleum Company, Denver, Colorado, 1988-1990
• Program Co-Coordinator, Colorado School of MinesñAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists Student Chapter Lecture Series, 1989-1990
• Research Volunteer, Branch of Coal Resources, U.S. Geological Survey, 1989-1990
• Instructor, one-third Semester, GE 305: Sedimentology, Colorado School of Mines, 1989
• Field Trip Leader for University of Utah Research Institute, Gas Research Institute, Utah Geological Survey, and the Bureau of Economic Geology, 1989
• Summer Professional, ARCO Alaska, Inc., 1987
• Geologic River Guide, Grand Canyon, Arizona, White Water River Expeditions, 1983-1986 (6 trips)
• Undergraduate Field Assistant, High Resolution Event Stratigraphy of the Mancos Shale, Black Mesa, Arizona, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1983