Our Team
GBDS Core Research Staff:
Richard A. Denne
Program Director
Interests: biostratigraphy, mudstones, paleoceanography, sequence stratigraphy
Michael L. Sweet
Co-Program Director
Interests: clastic sedimentology, marine geology, reservoir connectivity
Tim Whiteaker
Research Scientist
Interests: cyberinfrastructure, geographic information systems, data management
John W. Snedden
Research Professor
Interests: sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, reservoir connectivity, process sedimentology
Robert Cunningham
Sr. Research Fellow
Interests: petroleum systems, geochemistry, source rocks
Ian Norton
Sr. Research Fellow
Interests: tectonics, structure, continental margins
Summer Li
Project Manager
ArcGIS Geoscience database management, Project management
Annie Walker
Research Engineering/Scientist Professional
Structural Geology
Marcie Purkey Phillips
Research Engineering/Scientist Professional
Biostratigraphy
GBDS Graduate Research Assistants:
Juan Gutierrez
Interests: deepwater sedimentology, salt tectonics
Avery Bannwarth
Interests: using detrital zircon geochronology to understand sediment routing
GBDS Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Corbin C Poehl
Ava Russell
Lance Kessler
Allison Atkins
Arthith Iyer Keezhapanthal Sa
Samuel Wen
Mason Miranda
Kevin Barry