Profile
My experience in the oil and gas
exploration industry includes over 25 years in acquisition, processing, interpreting and
marketing geophysical data including: work with computer systems ranging from personal to
mainframe, writing reports and computer programs, research, field work, and worldwide
travel.
Prior to founding Bird Geophysical, I established
and managed an affiliate office in Houston for Aerodat Inc., an international airborne
geophysical survey company. I was the Chief Geophysicist for World Geoscience Inc.
(Americas), another international airborne geophysical survey company. I have also been a
Geophysicist with Marathon Oil Company, Digicon Inc., and Aero Service Division of Western
Atlas International Inc.
Interpretation experience includes most basins in
North America, from the north slope of Alaska down through the Cook Inlet and foreland
basins of western Canada, Montana, the Great Basin, and Texas, as well as the Gulf of
Mexico (see GoMES) and Gulf coast basins from Texas to Florida.
South American basins studied include offshore Colombia and Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, and
Argentina. In Africa I've studied most basins along the west coast from Liberia to South
Africa, Offshore Egypt and Mozambique, and the Central African Rift in Sudan. European and
Asian areas studied include the North Sea, Porcupine Basin, Kazakhstan and the Black Sea.
My experience in Southeast Asia includes a continental-scale regional
interpretation which was a joint study with my friend and colleague Dick Gibson. Finally, I've studied offshore Australian basins along
its western and northern coasts. While the focus of my work is integrating and
interpreting gravity and magnetics data, an important part of my work involves research
and reporting these findings with a final discussion of points made by clients,
literature, and results from my work.
I served in the US Army, 1st Military
Intelligence Battalion, as an Image Interpreter specializing in interpretation of various
imagery formats including SLAR (Side Looking Airborne Radar) and infrared.
My professional affiliations include: American
Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (past Chair -
Gravity and Magnetics Committee), European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers,
American Geophysical Union, Houston Geological Society, Geophysical Society of Houston
(past Editor and past Chair - Potential Fields Group), and National Eagle Scout
Association.
I earned BS, MS
and PhD geophysics degrees at the University of Houston.
Mission
The mission of Bird Geophysical is to interpret gravity and magnetic data, on both
proprietary and speculative bases.
Geologic principles and examples underpin the best gravity and magnetic data
interpretations. Therefore I prefer to have access to all available geophysical and
geological data, as well as current literature for a study area, while interpreting.
Interpretation techniques include depth-to-magnetic source analyses, trend and
lineament analyses, modeling, and anomaly enhancement. Modeling includes 2D and 3D forward
and inverse methods. Application of these techniques are covered in two articles I wrote
for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Explorer in May and June, 1997
(see Publications). For a discussion and my perspective on
several topics specific to interpreting gravity and magnetic data for petroleum
exploration, see Issues.
Since founding Bird Geophysical I have completed proprietary interpretations in North
America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. I am also full or partial owner of
non-exclusive Projects.
I am available for any scale project over any part of the world. Please contact me
at: info@birdgeo.com
Resources
I utilize PC-based computer platforms with over
800 Gb of hard drive space, and state-of-the-art hardware such as
Hewlett-Packard 36" color plotter, CD & DVD recorders, 8mm Exabyte™ tape drive, and 3x4' digitizing board. I also utilize state-of-the-art
software including Geosoft™, GM-SYS™ , MatLab™
and ArcInfo™ (see Links).
Although I work primarily with Personal Computers, generating products compatible with
UNIX platforms is not an obstacle.
