Theses

Post-Doctoral Advisor (OSU)

• Yasser Salama, Diagenesis and Chemostratigraphy of Eocene and Pleistocene Coral Reefs in the Sinai, Egypt

Ph.D. Advisor (OSU)

• Beth Vanden Berg, Combining Pore Architecture and Sonic Velocity Response to Predict Reservoir Quality in complex Carbonate Reservoirs, Best Poster Award, 2014 AAPG Student Expo, Houston, OCGS Foundation Fellowship, AAPG Grants in Aid, internship summer 2014, Occidental Petroleum, Houston, TX
• Ahmed El Belasy, Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian Matulla Formation, West Sinai, Egypt, SEPM Best Student Poster Award, AAPG/ACE/SEPM meeting, Denver, co-advisor with Mansoura University, Egyptian Channel Program
• Yulun Wang, Integrated Reservoir Characterization of Mississippian Unconventional Carbonates, started Fall 2014
• Ibukun Bode, Using Nuclear Magnetic Response and Sonic Velocity as a Proxy for Predicting Pore Systems and Related Permeability in Unconventional Carbonates, started Fall 2014

M.S. Thesis Advisor (current OSU)

• Alejandra Santiago Torres, Significance of Microbialites in Reservoir Development and Evolution in Silurian Reef Slope Deposits at Pipe Creek Jr. Quarry, Indiana, and the Michigan Basin
• Maria Reistoffer, Thesis topic under development, started Fall 2017
• Mckensie Mitsdarffer, Thesis topic under development, started Fall 2017
• C.J. Appelseth, Reservoir Characterization of Mississippian Strata in Central and Eastern Oklahoma Utilizing Core and Wireline Logs
• Elizabeth Elium, Combining Sequence Stratigraphy with Artificial Neural Networks to Enhance Regional Correlation and Determination of Reservoir Quality in the “Mississippian Limestone” of the Mid-Continent, USA
• James Karsten, Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of Silurian Reef Slope Deposits, Michigan Basin

Completed (OSU)

• Lara Jaeckel, 2016 High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of Mid-Continent Mississippian Carbonates in Northwestern Oklahoma and South Central Kansas, accepted full time position with Chesapeake Energy.
  
• Ashley Dupont, 2016, High Resolution Chemostratigraphy in the “Mississippian Limestone” of north-central Oklahoma, accepted full time position with EOG Resources
  
• Scott Shelley, 2016, High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy Characterization and 3-D Reservoir Modeling of Mississippian Meramecian and Chesterian Strata, Northeastern Oklahoma, accepted full time position with Concho Resources.
  
• Taylor Thompson, 2016, High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and reservoir characterization of Mississippian Carbonates of the Mid-Continent, Defended Spring 2016, internship summer 2014 with Linn Energy, accepted full time environmental geoscience position with AECOM.
• Keller Flinton, 2016, The effects of High-Frequency Cyclicity on Reservoir Characteristics of the “Mississippian Limestone”, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, accepted full time position with American Energy Partners.
  
• Miranda Childress, Stratigraphic Architecture of Mississippian Carbonates, Mid-Continent, USA. Defended Spring 2015. Accepted full time position with Devon Energy.
  
• Stephanie LeBlanc, High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of Mississippian Carbonates of the Mid-Continent, USA. Internship with ExxonMobil, Houston, TX. Internship summer of 2013 with Occidental Petroleum, Houston, TX. Defended Fall 2014. Accepted full time position with ExxonMobil.
  
• Buddy Price, Reservoir Characterization Mississippian Carbonates, Mid-Continent, USA. Internship summer 2013 with Devon Energy, Oklahoma City, OK., Defended Fall 2014. Accepted full time position with Devon Energy.

Ph.D. Advisor (WMU)

• Tarek Anan, co-chair, Sequence Stratigraphy of Cretaceous carbonate-siliciclastic sediments in the Sinai Peninsula (Abu Qada Formation), Mansoura University, Graduated Sept. 2010, Egyptian Channel Program. Faculty at Mansoura University, Cairo, Egypt.
• Yasser Salama, co-chair, Sequence Stratigraphy of Cenomanian-Turonian Strata on the North Sinai Carbonate Shelf, Beni-Suef University, Egyptian Channel Program. Graduated October 2012. Faculty at Beni-Suef University, Cairo, Egypt.

M.S. Thesis Advisor (WMU)

• Seth Workman, Integrating Depositional Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy in Characterizing Unconventional Reservoirs: Eagle Ford Shale, South Texas, Internship EOG Resources. Best Student Poster Award (professional session), ESAAPG 2012, Hired by EOG Resources.
• Jason Asmus, Characterizing the Internal Architecture of Upper Bone Spring Limestone Turbidites and Mass-Transport Deposits (MTDs) Utilizing High-Resolution Image Log Technology, defended Oct. 2012. Best Poster Award, GCAGS, New Orleans, 2013, Internship with EOG Resources. Hired by EOG Resources, Midland, TX.
• Jennifer Trout, Relative Abundance and General Distribution of Fauna in a Silurian (Wenlock) Pinnacle Reef Complex – Ray Reef, Macomb County, Michigan, defended September 2012. Internship, US Department of the Interior, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Hired by Western Michigan University.
• Shawn McCloskey, 3-D Reservoir Characterization of the South Buckeye Field, Dundee Formation (Devonian), Michigan Basin, USA, Devonian Dundee Formation in the North Buckeye Field, Michigan Basin, defended March 2012. Hired by Occidental Petroleum, Houston, TX
• Peter Feutz, Evaluating the Effects of Lithofacies and Thin Shales on the Lateral Distribution of Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoirs in the Michigan Basin, defended January 2012. Internship with Chesapeake Energy. Hired by Chesapeake Energy, Oklahoma City, OK.
• Marcel Robinson, Integrating Depositional Facies and Stratigraphy in Characterizing Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoirs: Trenton Group (Ordovician) of the Albion-Scipio Trend, Michigan Basin, defended July 2012. Internship with Devon Energy. Hired by Devon Energy, Oklahoma City, OK.
• John Thornton, Prediction of Petrophysical Properties of Trenton-Black River (Ordovician) Reservoirs by Comparing Pore Architecture and Permeability to Sonic Velocity, Defended August 2011. AAPG Grants-in-Aid recipient. Best Student Paper Award, ESAAPG 2011, Internship with Shell Exploration and Production. Hired by Shell Exploration and Production, Houston, TX.
• Jennifer Schulz, High Resolution Depositional Analysis of the Black River Group (Ordovician),
  Michigan Basin, defended June 2011. Internship with EOG Resources (Corpus Christi, TX) 2007. Won 2nd Place graduate student paper at AAPG job expo, Oklahoma, 2008. Best Student Poster
  Award in Professional Session, ESAAPG 2008. Hired by Occidental Petroleum Corporation in Houston, TX.
• Heather Qualman, 3-D Interpretation of the Reservoir Property Distribution in the Belle River Mills Silurian (Niagaran) Reef, St. Clair County, Michigan, defended July, 2009. Margaret Hawn Mirabile Memorial Best Student Paper Award, professional session, ESAAPG 2009, won 1st Place, Graduate Student Poster, Eastern Section AAPG 2008. Internship with ExxonMobil. Hired by ExxonMobil, Houston, TX.
• Audrey Ritter, Evaluating the Controls on Reservoir Heterogeneity of Silurian Pinnacle Reefs, Michigan Basin, defended October 2008. Awarded 1st Place, Graduate Student paper contest ES AAPG, 2005, and 2nd Place in 2004 (both while an undergraduate student). Internship with Equitable Resources (Pittsburgh) in 2006 and Occidental Petroleum (Houston) in 2007. Hired by ExxonMobil, Houston, TX.
• Jessica Crisp, A rock-based 3-D model of the Ray Reef Field, Silurian, Michigan Basin, defended September 2008. Internships with NASA, 2004 and ExxonMobil, 2007. AAPG Grants-in-Aid recipient. Hired by ExxonMobil, Houston, TX.
• Amy Noack, Analysis of Pore Architecture and Correlation to Sonic Velocity Values in the Silurian (Niagaran) Reefs of the Michigan Basin, defended July 2008. Internship with EOG Resources (2007). Hired by EOG Resources, Midland, TX.
• Anthony Sandomierski, Evaluating Controls on the Formation of Niagaran Pinnacle Reefs in the Michigan Basin: A Sequence Stratigraphic Approach, defended March 2006. Awarded Vincent E. Nelson Award from AAPG for Best Poster in Professional Session at ES AAPG, 2005. Internship (2005) with ExxonMobil, Houston. Hired by ExxonMobil in Houston, TX.
• Peter Voice, Characterization of the paleoceanography of the Michigan Basin in Silurian time through stable isotope analysis of articulate brachiopods, defended August 2005. Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech.