McKensie Mitsdarffer was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She attended Texas A&M University to receive her Bachelor of Science in Geology. In the summers of 2014 and 2015, she completed internships with Geostock Sandia LLC. where she authored drilling reports, injection well permit applications and EPA no-migration petitions. She also correlated well logs to create an injection zone isopach map. The following summer she attended a traveling field camp where she camped for six weeks in Moab, Utah, Salida, Colorado, and Dillon, Montana. Majority of McKensie’s time in undergraduate was centered on geology, from being involved in organizations such as Student Geoscience Council as the Assistant Financial Officer and AAPG, to undergraduate research. Her last year at A&M she completed an undergraduate research project analyzing grain size in the Panama Basin as a proxy for deep paleo-ocean current velocities. When she wasn’t occupied with geology, she worked as a Supplemental Instructor for a variety of courses including Physical Chemistry, Zoology, Geography, and Texas History. Her senior year she promoted to a Supervisor Assistant where she oversaw the progress of the SI’s. During her free time, she volunteered at a non-profit therapeutic horseback riding organization.

McKensie is currently pursuing her Masters of Science in Geology where she aspires to be a petroleum geologist and is a part of the Dr. Grammer’s Carbonate Reservoir Characterization Group. Her current research involves the characterization of deepwater turbidities and mass transport deposits from image logs in unconventional Wolfcamp reservoirs within the Delaware Basin. Her years of experience as a Supplemental Instructor has assisted her in a teaching assistantship for Sedimentary Stratigraphy. This summer she will be working as an intern at Concho Resources in Midland, TX.