Basin Research at Penn State

The GeoSystems and GeoFluids groups are composed of the following individuals:

Current Faculty and Students

Peter Flemings Professor of Geosciencs

Audrey Hucks Ph.D. student

Hui Long Ph.D. student

Derek Sawyer Ph.D. student

Julia Schneider Ph.D. student

Current Staff

Christie Rosenhoover Geosystems and GeoFluids Office Manager

Heather Nelson Data Manager / Projects Assistant

Tom Canich Unix/Linux Systems Administrator

Damian Futrick PC Systems Administrator

Previous Students and Staff

Louanne Christopher Awarded a MS Geosciences, Fall 2006--Forward Modeling of Compaction and Fluid Flow in the Ursa Region, Mississippi Canyon Area, Gulf of Mexico

Xiaoli Liu Awarded a Ph.D. Geosciences, Spring 2006--Dynamics of Shallow Marine Gas Hydrate and Free Gas Systems

Asha Ramgulam Awarded a MS Geosciences, Spring 2006--Utilization of Artificial Neural Networks in the Optimization of History Matching

Joseph Razzano Awarded a MS Geosciences, Spring 2006--Time-Lapse Seismic Analysis of the Tahoe Field, Viosca Knoll Block 783, Offshore Gulf of Mexico

Chekwube Enunwa Awarded a MS Geosciences, Fall 2005--Channel Incision and Accomodation: Predicting Compartmentalization in a Turbidite Channel-Levee Reservoir

Eric Kuhl Awarded a MS PNGE, Fall 2003--optimization of recovery from two-layer reservoirs with crossflow

Christine (Tin-Wai) Lee Awarded a MS Geosciences, Spring 2003--time-lapse inpedance inversion at Popeye Field, offshore Gulf of Mexico

Ben Seldon Awarded a MS Geosciences, Spring 2003--reservoir pressure and seafloor venting: predicting trap integrity in a GOM deepwater turbidite minibasin

Beth Strickland Awarded a MS Geosciences, Spring 2003--intregrated time-lapse seismic analysis of the two g-sand facies, Popeye Field, offshore Gulf of Mexico

Aaron Janssen Awarded a MS Geosciences, Spring 2004--studied fluid flow of the Bullwinkle Field, offshore Gulf of Mexico

Brandon Dugan Awarded a Ph.D. Geosciences, Spring 2003--studied fluid flow and deformation in basins

Jacek Lupa Awarded a MS Geosciences, Spring 2002--geopressure and flow-focusing in the Gulf of Mexico

Kevin Best Awarded a MS PNGE, Spring 2002--integrated model for compaction/water driven reservoirs, Gulf of Mexico

Joe Comisky Awarded a MS Geosciences, Spring 2002--petrophysical analysis of Bullwinle J sands in the Gulf of Mexico

Victor Siahaan Awarded a PhD PNGE, Spring 2002--studied gas migration in fractured caprock

Alastair Swanston Awarded a MS Geosciences, Fall 2001--studied turbidite reserviors using time-lapse seismic data

Nate Kaleta Awarded a MS Geosciences, Summer 2001--studied time-lapse (4D) seismic in the Gulf of Mexico

Jane Cookman Awarded a MS Geosciences, Summer 1999--studied wind-driven circulation on the continental shelf

John Metzger Awarded a MS Geosciences, Spring 1999--studied integration of seismic, log, and core data for sequences at the New Jersey outer continental shelf

Beth Bishop Stump Awarded a MS Geosciences, Winter 1998--studied relationships between pressure, stress, and gas column height

David Gordon Awarded a MS Geosciences, Winter 1996 -- studied compaction driven fluid flow in a Plio-Pleistocene growth fault

Andrew Hoover Awarded a MS, Summer 1997 -- studied sediment size distributions on delta and shelf margin clinoforms

Tucker Burkhart Awarded a MS, Winter 1997-- studied 4-D seismic analysis

Anil Deshpande Awarded a Ph.D., Winter 1997 -- investigated the potential use of seismic data in quantifying lithologic heterogeneity and improving geologic characterization of reservoirs

Jim Ashbaugh Research Assistant

Amanda Shaw Research Assistant

Patrick Walsh Research Assistant

Department of Geosciences | Penn State University

This site was last updated on March 27, 2007
Questions and suggestions may be directed to flemings@geosc.psu.edu