Bird Geophysical

Profile

Bird Geophysical is a sole proprietorship, established in 1997, owned by Dale Bird. Bird Geophysical consultancy specializes in gravity, gravity gradient, and magnetic data interpretation, tectonophysics, and their instruction. Services include:

• Proprietary interpretations, world-wide
• Geologic mapping, depth to magnetic basement, 2D / 3D forward / inverse modeling, and integration with outcrop, well, seismic reflection, and seismic refraction data
• Heat flow prediction, incorporating Machine Learning algorithms, via integration with magnetic data and open file stations data
• Training
• Up to five-day schedules that cover fundamental elements such as theory, instrumentation, data acquisition and processing, interpretation, and a hands-on modeling exercise. The focus of the course is understanding typical anomaly amplitudes and wavelengths associated with structures and lithologies that form in various basin settings, such as platforms, rifts, passive margins, and basins that form along convergent zones.
• Non-exclusive products
• Geothermal studies (collaborations with Earthfield Technology): typical products include predicted heat flow, via supervised machine learning, basement terranes and heat production, thermal conductivities, temperature volumes:
• Permian Basin
• Denver-Julesburg Basin
• Powder River Basin
• Northern Gulf of Mexico coast, Sabine uplift
• Northern Gulf of Mexico coast, regional study (in progress)
• West U.S. — parts of Oregon, Idaho, California, Nevada and Utah
• Gravity and magnetic data interpretations: typical products include magnetic basement, map interpretations, and mega-regional 2D modeled cross sections.
• Gulf of Mexico
• Western Caribbean
• Southeast Asia (collaboration with Gibson Consulting)
• Data: Open-file marine GEODAS reprocessed gravity and magnetic data:
• Gulf of Mexico
• Caribbean
• Brazil and Argentina
• West Africa
• East Africa
• India

Prior to founding Bird Geophysical, Dale’s experience included positions with Marathon Oil Company, Digicon (a seismic acquisition and processing company) and three airborne geophysical survey companies (Aerodat, World Geoscinece, and Aero Service).

Dale earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. Geophysics degrees from the University of Houston. He attended the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School in Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. Dale was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army after serving three years in a Detachment of the 1st Military Intelligence Battalion. When he was 15 years old, he achieved the rank of Eagle Boy Scout in southern Michigan.

Professionally, Dale has been active with several organizations, including volunteer work: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), American Geophysical Union (AGU), European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), Geological Society of America (GSA), Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH), Houston Geological Society (HGS), National Eagle Scout Association (NESA), and Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).

Since receiving his Ph.D., Dale has been appointed Adjunct and Research Associate Professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches, collaborates with colleagues, and serves on student research committees.

Dale has authored and coauthored several peer-reviewed papers published in various scientific journals and proceedings as well as presentations at conferences. Please download his CV for more details of his experience, education, awards, affiliations, and publications.

Contact

Dale Bird, Ph.D.
Bird Geophysical
16903 Clan Macintosh Dr.
Houston, Texas 77084-1942
+1.713.203.1927
dale@birdgeo.com
www.birdgeo.com